[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#545203: Acknowledgement (pulseaudio: no connection to server possible)

[arne anka]

i deleted ~/.pulse* and /tmp/pulse* and started with

pulseaudio --use-pid-file=false

which produced some lengthy output (see below), but suddnely

pactl stat

could connect.
killing the server, removing  ~/.pulse* and /tmp/pulse* again and  
restarting with only

pulseaudio -D

left it in a usable state, ie pactl, padevchooser etc work.
not sure, though, what a) exactly happend and b) will happen the next time  
i reboot.

$ pulseaudio --use-pid-file=false
E: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there  
was actually nothing to write!
E: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver '(null)'.  
Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent  
snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.
E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail() returned a value that is exceptionally  
large: 1441151880758556416 bytes (104573379089 ms).
E: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver '(null)'.  
Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump():
E: alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel' device 0 subdevice 0
E: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
E: alsa-util.c:   stream       : PLAYBACK
E: alsa-util.c:   access       : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
E: alsa-util.c:   format       : S16_LE
E: alsa-util.c:   subformat    : STD
E: alsa-util.c:   channels     : 2
E: alsa-util.c:   rate         : 44100
E: alsa-util.c:   exact rate   : 44100 (44100/1)
E: alsa-util.c:   msbits       : 16
E: alsa-util.c:   buffer_size  : 4416
E: alsa-util.c:   period_size  : 1472
E: alsa-util.c:   period_time  : 33378
E: alsa-util.c:   tstamp_mode  : ENABLE
E: alsa-util.c:   period_step  : 1
E: alsa-util.c:   avail_min    : 1472
E: alsa-util.c:   period_event : 0
E: alsa-util.c:   start_threshold  : -1
E: alsa-util.c:   stop_threshold   : 4971973988617027584
E: alsa-util.c:   silence_threshold: 0
E: alsa-util.c:   silence_size : 0
E: alsa-util.c:   boundary     : 4971973988617027584
E: alsa-util.c:   appl_ptr     : 6465
E: alsa-util.c:   hw_ptr       : 1473
E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_delay() returned a value that is exceptionally  
large: -1441151880758362176 bytes (-104573377988 ms).
E: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver '(null)'.  
Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump():
E: alsa-util.c: Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel' device 0 subdevice 0
E: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
E: alsa-util.c:   stream       : PLAYBACK
E: alsa-util.c:   access       : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
E: alsa-util.c:   format       : S16_LE
E: alsa-util.c:   subformat    : STD
E: alsa-util.c:   channels     : 2
E: alsa-util.c:   rate         : 44100
E: alsa-util.c:   exact rate   : 44100 (44100/1)
E: alsa-util.c:   msbits       : 16
E: alsa-util.c:   buffer_size  : 4416
E: alsa-util.c:   period_size  : 1472
E: alsa-util.c:   period_time  : 33378
E: alsa-util.c:   tstamp_mode  : ENABLE
E: alsa-util.c:   period_step  : 1
E: alsa-util.c:   avail_min    : 1472
E: alsa-util.c:   period_event : 0
E: alsa-util.c:   start_threshold  : -1
E: alsa-util.c:   stop_threshold   : 4971973988617027584
E: alsa-util.c:   silence_threshold: 0
E: alsa-util.c:   silence_size : 0
E: alsa-util.c:   boundary     : 4971973988617027584
E: alsa-util.c:   appl_ptr     : 50625
E: alsa-util.c:   hw_ptr       : 1489
^CE: module-gconf.c: Unable to read or parse data from client.