Description of problem: Pulseaudio suddenly stopped working and can't auto start anymore. Manual start fails also. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -qa| grep pulseaudio pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.3-2.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.18-2.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-lirc-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 pulseaudio-0.9.14-1.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try start ./pulseaudio Actual results: No playback of audio. Starting pulseaudio failed with: I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE. I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges. I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE. W: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:2 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz. W: alsa-util.c: Cannot find fallback mixer control "Mic". W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 16000 Hz. W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:0 doesn't support 2 channels, changed to 1. W: module-alsa-source.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 5,00 dB to 5,00 dB which makes no sense. E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 18446744073709486080 bytes (384307167860 ms) Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the PulseAudio developers. N: module-alsa-source.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 36,75 ms Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating. Hard CPU time limit exhausted, terminating forcibly. Abgebrochen Expected results: pulseausio start up correctly and can play audio. Additional info: $ lsmod | grep snd snd_hda_codec_analog 76160 1 snd_hda_intel 28792 1 snd_hda_codec 63424 2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel snd_usb_audio 93712 0 snd_seq_dummy 3108 0 snd_seq_oss 31424 0 snd_seq_midi_event 6656 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 54032 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss 43344 0 snd_mixer_oss 15216 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 78184 5 saa7134_alsa,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss snd_usb_lib 16688 1 snd_usb_audio snd_rawmidi 22608 1 snd_usb_lib snd_timer 22160 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_seq_device 7060 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd_hwdep 8296 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio snd_page_alloc 8976 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd 63448 18 saa7134_alsa,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep $ lspci| grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) best regards
Created attachment 340929 [details] similar log Here is a similar log, which is always reproducible when starting gnome-volume-control. I've tried both kernel-2.6.29.1-106.fc11.x86_64 and kernel-2.6.30-0.66.rc3.fc12.x86_64 with similar results. some kernel spew wrt this hardware.. HDA Intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC883, trying auto-probe from BIOS... ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3795: autoconfig: line_outs=4 (0x14/0x15/0x16/0x17/0x0) ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3799: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3803: hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3804: mono: mono_out=0x0 ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3807: dig-out=0x1e/0x0 ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3815: inputs: mic=0x18, fmic=0x19, line=0x1a, fline=0x0, cd=0x0, aux=0x0 ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:3817: dig-in=0x1f input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/input/input6 HDA Intel 0000:01:05.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 HDA Intel 0000:01:05.1: setting latency timer to 64 ...... ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1102: Too big adjustment 32 ......many time this....
alsa-info http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=8a8c684ad41ba9e2c0c22990e2abf22bdb2912a7
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 485734 ***