Further update: A X restart didn't bring me back the builtin soundcard either. I'll have to restart the machine to see. Beinan <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Colin Guthrie <<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">'Twas brillig, and Beinan Li at 10/12/08 07:00 did gyre and gimble: <div class="Ih2E3d">> Running Ubuntu 8.04 on my HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop. > I have a USB SB Live! soundcard and a builtin AC97. > Everytime when I unplugged my USB soundcard, pulseaudio connection is > broken, > and I had to restart X to bring it back (pulseaudio -k && pulseaudio -D > doesn't do the trick). </div>Sounds like pulse has deadlocked somehow. After pulseaudio -k, can you check to see if pulse is still running (ps aux| grep pulseaudio). If it is then you can try a killall -9 pulseaudio to really nuke it, but it would be good to get some debug out of it. What really needs to happen tho' is to get a backtrace out of this. Do the following in your shell (each block is one line): export LD_BIND_NOW=1 gdb pulseaudio handle SIGXCPU SIGPWR SIG33 SIG34 SIG42 SIG43 SIG44 SIG45 SIG46 SIG47 SIG48 SIG49 SIG50 SIG51 SIG52 SIG53 SIG63 SIG62 SIG61 SIG60 SIG59 SIG58 nostop noprint run This will run pulse under GDB (please note that you need to install debugging symbols - don't know how that is done in Ubuntu). Leave this terminal open and then make pulse crash. When it does go back to this terminal and you should be at a prompt again. Type: thread apply all bt full Then copy the output to a file and attach it to a bug report on <a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</a> It would also help to say what version of PA you are using. As it's an older Ubuntu, I'd guess it's the stock 0.9.10 version? <div class="Ih2E3d"> > And sometimes flash for Firefox doesn't give sound, whether I install > libflashsupport or flashplugin-nonfree. </div>What version of the flash plugin are you using. With version 9 there are deadlocks in the audio API that adobe expose. There is nothing we can do about that as it's not open software. They have fixed a lot of the issues with their version 10 so you should try that if you are not already (in theory libflashsupport is not needed there but it may still be nicer to use it - there is a nicer name for the audio stream but that's trivial!). <div class="Ih2E3d"> > And I constantly get message saying resource busy when I restart > pulseaudio by -k -D. </div>Chances are the first pulseaudio is not dying properly with -k as I noted above. If that's the case it will still be hogging the sound device and the second version cannot access it (although the second version should not run really - but perhaps at this point some other app - e.g. flash has started using ALSA directly and that's why it's busy). <div class="Ih2E3d"> > HELP!!!!!! > > > I pasted my `pulseaudio -vv` command output below. > > > E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy > E: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: > "device_id=0 > sink_name=alsa_output.pci_8086_284b_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0"): > initialization failed. </div>Yeah this basically means that something is using the device. The output from the following command should tell you what application is using the alsa device: Here is the output on my machine when pulse is playing a track. [colin@jimmy ~]$ sudo lsof | grep /dev/snd kmix      7080      colin   10u      CHR              116,0        0t0      3836 /dev/snd/controlC0 pulseaudi 7730      colin  mem       CHR             116,16      3735 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p pulseaudi 7730      colin   17u      CHR              116,0        0t0      3836 /dev/snd/controlC0 pulseaudi 7730      colin   18u      CHR             116,16        0t0      3735 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p pulseaudi 7730      colin   19u      CHR              116,0        0t0      3836 /dev/snd/controlC0 pulseaudi 7730      colin   26u      CHR              116,0        0t0      3836 /dev/snd/controlC0 HTHs you debug some more. 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