Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #434436
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 434436

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Marcel (marcel-launchpad) wrote : Re: pulseaudio: sudden crashes while watching video clips or listening to songs

I get the same error (on Ubuntu 9.10) at seemingly random events. I end up at the login screen in less than a second.

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-20-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 09:05:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

Intel Core E4400 CPU, Asus P5B-V motherboard.

Mar 2 19:56:15 localhost pulseaudio[3214]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Mar 2 19:56:15 localhost bonobo-activation-server (marcel-3193): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-bAQ6MO1qx7: Connection refused
Mar 2 19:56:16 localhost pulseaudio[3214]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 18,00 dB to 18,00 dB which makes no sense.
Mar 2 19:56:16 localhost pulseaudio[3214]: last message repeated 6 times
Mar 2 19:56:16 localhost kernel: [ 1224.804397] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 2048x1536 18
Mar 2 19:56:17 localhost pulseaudio[3214]: main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-bAQ6MO1qx7: Connection refused
Mar 2 19:56:31 localhost kernel: [ 1239.851153] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 1d