[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #589: Pulseaudio dies within 10 minutes of use

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#589: Pulseaudio dies within 10 minutes of use
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 Reporter:  martt                                                          |       Owner:  ossman            
     Type:  defect                                                         |      Status:  new               
Milestone:                                                                 |   Component:  alsa-plugins-pulse
 Keywords:  snd_pcm_avail_update exceptionally large terminating forcibly  |  
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 Hi,

 whenever I am playing music through the pulseaudio it dies with the
 following message:


 {{{
 E: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is
 exceptionally large: 18158513697557718976 bytes (138110388533 ms) Most
 likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue to the
 PulseAudio developers.
 I: module-alsa-sink.c: Underrun!
 Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating.
 Hard CPU time limit exhausted, terminating forcibly.

 }}}

 Then I have to keep restarting the pulseaudio process every 5 or 10
 minutes. I have had this problem eversince I started to use the pulseaudio
 about a year ago or so but only found time to report it now.
 I would really like to have it resolved so I am reporting this issue to
 the PulseAudio developers as the error message suggests.

 I captured the detailed error output of the pulseaudio process and a
 backtrace in the attached files.

 The card I am using is the Audigy 4 PRO:


 {{{
 [root at orion ~]# cat /proc/asound/cards
  0 [Audigy2        ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 4 PRO [SB0380]
                       Audigy 4 PRO [SB0380] (rev.4, serial:0x20071102) at
 0xdc00, irq 16
  6 [SAA7134        ]: SAA7134 - SAA7134
                       saa7133[0] at 0xfcfff000 irq 17
  7 [LogitechWC     ]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x8ce
                       USB Device 0x46d:0x8ce at usb-0000:00:02.1-2, high
 speed
 [
 }}}

 The alsa version:


 {{{
 [root at orion ~]# cat /proc/asound/version
 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.17.

 }}}

 I am running the Fedora Core 10.


 {{{
 [root at orion ~]# uname -a
 Linux orion 2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 20 22:47:23 EDT
 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 }}}

 These are the pulse package versions:

 {{{
 [root at orion ~]# rpm -qa |grep pulse
 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 wine-pulseaudio-1.1.15-1.fc10.i386
 xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.3-2.fc10.x86_64
 pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.14-3.fc10.i386
 pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 xmms-pulse-0.9.4-6.fc10.x86_64
 pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.18-2.fc10.x86_64
 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.18-2.fc10.i386
 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 pulseaudio-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 pulseaudio-debuginfo-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64
 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-0.9.14-3.fc10.x86_64

 }}}

 And here are the snd modules:

 {{{
 [root at orion ~]# lsmod |grep snd
 snd_emu10k1_synth      15488  0
 snd_emux_synth         43264  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
 snd_seq_virmidi        14080  1 snd_emux_synth
 snd_seq_midi_emul      14080  1 snd_emux_synth
 snd_emu10k1           152464  4 snd_emu10k1_synth
 snd_usb_audio         100352  1
 snd_ac97_codec        121160  1 snd_emu10k1
 ac97_bus               10112  1 snd_ac97_codec
 snd_seq_dummy          11396  0
 snd_seq_oss            39232  0
 snd_seq_midi_event     14848  2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
 snd_seq                61968  8
 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
 snd_pcm_oss            52224  0
 snd_mixer_oss          23168  1 snd_pcm_oss
 snd_pcm                85640  6
 saa7134_alsa,snd_emu10k1,snd_usb_audio,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
 snd_timer              30352  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
 snd_page_alloc         16656  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
 snd_usb_lib            24576  1 snd_usb_audio
 snd_util_mem           12416  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
 snd_rawmidi            30848  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_usb_lib
 snd_seq_device         15380  7
 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
 snd_hwdep              16392  3 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_usb_audio
 snd                    68984  27
 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,saa7134_alsa,snd_emu10k1,snd_usb_audio,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_usb_lib,snd_util_mem,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep
 soundcore              14992  1 snd

 }}}


 I am also attaching my pulse configuration files.

 If the expert who wants to look at his defect needs more info from me
 please give me a shout.

 Thanks,
 Martin

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