Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):0.9.15 How reproducible: variable Steps to Reproduce: 1. play music file Actual results: output crashes unpredictably - generally after 2 - 30 minutes. Often get a message "pa_stream_writable_size() failed. Connection terminated" Expected results: not to crash, obviously. Additional info: I have tried several different players and types of file and watched the CPU usage. Mplayer is most stable: likely to play for 30 min or more, with cpu usage around 1% and pa 2-4%. Totem and Rhythmbox both use more cpu and fail sooner, typically after 2-5 min. Totem is more successful with wav files than mp3 or oga. In all cases the crash causes pa's cpu use to soar up to 85% or more. Loading a wav file into Sound Recorder and playing it back also crashed after a few minutes, in this case with the message "pa_stream_cork() failed". The problem is definitely fairly new - appeared since upgrade to F11. I am running fully updated F11 on a 2.66 Celeron machine with integrated Intel ICH5 sound chip.
Most likely this is just another duplicate of bug 506075 or bug 501769. Please check syslog if you find any output from PA related to snd_pcm_delay() or snd_pcm_avail() overflowing.
you are correct. Output from syslog is Aug 24 11:42:21 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 30.00 ms Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 40.00 ms Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 50.00 ms Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 18446744073709540224 bytes (384307168142 ms). Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump(): Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'Intel ICH5' device 0 subdevice 0 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: Its setup is: Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: channels : 2 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: rate : 48000 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 48000 (48000/1) Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: period_size : 16384 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: period_time : 341333 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 16384 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 4611686018427387904 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: boundary : 4611686018427387904 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 13945634 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 13926402 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_delay() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 402284 bytes (2095 ms). Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump(): Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'Intel ICH5' device 0 subdevice 0 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: Its setup is: Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: stream : PLAYBACK Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: channels : 2 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: rate : 48000 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 48000 (48000/1) Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: period_size : 16384 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: period_time : 341333 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 16384 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 4611686018427387904 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: boundary : 4611686018427387904 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 14032034 Aug 24 11:43:19 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 13931463 Aug 24 11:43:24 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: ratelimit.c: 252 events suppressed Aug 24 11:43:29 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: ratelimit.c: 133 events suppressed Aug 24 11:43:34 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: ratelimit.c: 96 events suppressed Aug 24 11:43:35 dadscomputer pulseaudio[2082]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.
sigh *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 506075 ***