Comment 29 for bug 246800

I'm using a Lenovo T61p. Sound worked fine in Gutsy, and mostly fine in Hardy. Since moving to Intrepid, it's hit or miss. Lately (last week or so) it's been all miss.

If I reboot, I get sound ... for a few minutes. Then nothing. Pulseaudio daemon is running, but I get "Connection refused" from any of the control applets.

If I kill the process (including a -9, or it won't die) I can restart it. I get sound, again for just a few minutes. I get this in syslog:

Jan 21 14:22:11 paul-t61p pulseaudio[25022]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
Jan 21 14:22:11 paul-t61p pulseaudio[25024]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Jan 21 14:22:11 paul-t61p pulseaudio[25024]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Jan 21 14:22:11 paul-t61p pulseaudio[25024]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted

Then, within minutes, no sound. If I have the paman util connected, it will stop reporting good data then segfault, & report "connection refused" after that.

Last time I got annoyed and checked, the shell reported application "pulseaudio" was not installed (!) - even though Synaptic showed it as installed. I re-installed it with apt-get, but still no joy.

Everything's pretty much up to date:
2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
pulseaudio version 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.2
hardware 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

I haven't found anything like this searching bug reports. Anyone else see similar behavior?

 - Paul