Bug#690185: pulseaudio: PA might stop responding correctly after a while

[Michael Schmitt]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 2.0-6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainers,

no real idea how it is triggered, but sometimes after boot, sometimes after
resume from s2ram, sometimes in between hours after boot ANY application trying
to play just hangs. Killing pulseaudio fixes the issue.
I get the following messages in syslog. The latter ones are from the moment I
killed PA:
Oct 10 22:40:04 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Successfully made thread 2010 of process 2010 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Oct 10 22:40:04 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Oct 10 22:40:04 adrastea pulseaudio[2010]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Oct 10 22:40:12 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Successfully made thread 2016 of process 2016 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Oct 10 22:40:12 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Oct 10 22:40:12 adrastea pulseaudio[2016]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Oct 10 22:40:22 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Successfully made thread 2065 of process 2065 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Oct 10 22:40:22 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Oct 10 22:40:22 adrastea pulseaudio[2065]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Oct 10 22:40:30 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Successfully made thread 2070 of process 2070 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Oct 10 22:40:30 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Oct 10 22:40:30 adrastea pulseaudio[2070]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Oct 10 22:40:31 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Successfully made thread 2071 of process 2070 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Oct 10 22:40:31 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Oct 10 22:40:31 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Successfully made thread 2072 of process 2070 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Oct 10 22:40:31 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Supervising 3 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Oct 10 22:40:31 adrastea pulseaudio[2070]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
Oct 10 22:40:31 adrastea pulseaudio[2070]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1" name="1" card_name="alsa_card.1" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
Oct 10 22:40:31 adrastea pulseaudio[2070]: [pulseaudio] module.c: module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink instead of module-combine!
Oct 10 22:40:31 adrastea pulseaudio[2070]: [pulseaudio] module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration.
Oct 10 22:40:31 adrastea rtkit-daemon[5551]: Successfully made thread 2074 of process 2070 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' RT at priority 6.

As the changelog of PA in experimental does not mention anything even remotely
related, should I try it nevertheless? But kinda tricky to verify afterwards as
no idea how to trigger the issue.

regards
Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                    0.4.5-3.1
ii  libasound2                    1.0.25-4
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.25-2
ii  libc6                         2.13-35
ii  libcap2                       1:2.22-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.6.8-1
ii  libfftw3-3                    3.3.2-3.1
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.7.2-3
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.8-2
ii  libltdl7                      2.4.2-1.1
ii  liborc-0.4-0                  1:0.4.16-2
ii  libpulse0                     2.0-6
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.8-5
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.25-5
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-6
ii  libstdc++6                    4.7.2-3
ii  libsystemd-daemon0            44-4
ii  libsystemd-login0             44-4
ii  libtdb1                       1.2.10-2
ii  libudev0                      175-7
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-2
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.5.0-1
ii  libx11-xcb1                   2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcb1                       1.8.1-1
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.1-1
ii  lsb-base                      4.1+Debian7
ii  udev                          175-7

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11     2.0-6
ii  rtkit                     0.10-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman             0.9.4-1
ii  paprefs           0.9.10-1
ii  pavucontrol       1.0-1
ii  pavumeter         0.9.3-4
ii  pulseaudio-utils  2.0-6

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