[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #165: Intermittent problems (Unable to connect)

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#165: Intermittent problems (Unable to connect)
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 Reporter:  hugobo  |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:         
Component:  daemon  |    Severity:  normal 
 Keywords:          |  
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 When I play the exact same audio or video file in audacious, xine or
 mplayer, I sometimes have this error message (audacious example):

 {{{
 *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Invalid argument
 ERROR: libflacng.so: plugin.c:366 (flac_play_loop): Could not open output
 plugin!
 }}}

 I'm using pulseaudio-0.9.7

 Here is the log output from pulseaudio:
 {{{
 Nov 20 19:27:11 (none) sendmail[5931]: NOQUEUE: connect from
 quattuornulla.alpha.ec-cluster.com [195.140.185.200]
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: sink-input.c: Freeing output 2
 "ALSA Playback"
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: client.c: Freed 3 "ALSA plug-in
 [audacious]"
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: protocol-native.c: connection
 died.
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: client.c: Created 4 "Native
 client (UNIX socket client)"
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: client.c: Freed 4 "Native client
 (UNIX socket client)"
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: protocol-native.c: connection
 died.
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: client.c: Created 5 "Native
 client (UNIX socket client)"
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: client.c: Client 5 changed name
 from "Native client (UNIX socket client)" to "ALSA plug-in [audacious]"
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: module-volume-restore.c:
 Restoring volume for <../../pulseaudio-0.9.7/src/pulsecore/protocol-
 native.c$ALSA plug-in [audacious]>
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: module-volume-restore.c:
 Restoring sink for <../../pulseaudio-0.9.7/src/pulsecore/protocol-
 native.c$ALSA plug-in [audacious]>
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: sink-input.c: Created input 3
 "ALSA Playback" on esound_out with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: memblockq.c: memblockq requested:
 maxlength=88200, tlength=88200, base=4, prebuf=17640, minreq=17640
 Nov 20 19:27:12 (none) pulseaudio[5783]: memblockq.c: memblockq sanitized:
 maxlength=88200, tlength=88200, base=4, prebuf=17640, minreq=17640
 }}}

 What can be the problem?

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