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Bug 1594409

Summary: PulseAudio stops working unexpectedly
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Pavlin Georgiev <pgeorgie>
Component: pulseaudioAssignee: Wim Taymans <wtaymans>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.5CC: wtaymans
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2018-09-11 17:06:51 UTC Type: Bug
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Debug log from PulseAudio none

Description Pavlin Georgiev 2018-06-22 21:20:28 UTC
Created attachment 1453856 [details]
Debug log from PulseAudio

Description of problem:
The sound of my laptop Lenovo W541 disappears during normal opearation.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.10.0-891.el7.x86_64
pulseaudio-10.0-5.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Only on my laptop, after each boot of the system, but not immediatly after boot.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot the system
2. Work with the computer, no special series of actions.

Actual results:
The sound disappears and PulseAudio does not start.

Expected results:
The sound is available at any time.

Additional info:
lspci
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller [8086:8c20] (rev 04)

Maybe this is a hardware failure, but I am not sure.

Comment 2 Wim Taymans 2018-09-07 07:46:31 UTC
Is pulseaudio crashing? is there a crash report? After the error, what does

 ps ax | grep pulseaudio

output? Does dmesg show any error/oops?

Comment 3 Pavlin Georgiev 2018-09-11 09:40:37 UTC
Since this a testing notebook, I have installed other versions of RHEL since this bug was registered in Bugzilla.

Today I have installed:
RHEL 7.5 x86_64 Workstation Released
with GNOME 3.26.

I have defined repositories from 3rd party providers.
Thus, I am able to install Flash player, VLC player, and audio codecs to test PulseAudio.

After the setup was ready
I tested the system by playing MP3, watching some videos on YouTube, and some MP4 video clips.

I was NOT able to reproduce the bug.


Details
kernel-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64
pulseaudio-10.0-5.el7.x86_64
vlc-2.2.8-2.el7.x86_64
firefox-52.7.0-1.el7_4.x86_64
flash-plugin-31.0.0.108-release.x86_64