[pulseaudio-discuss] "Unable to create stream: Connection terminated" happening relatively frequently in ubuntu 11.10

[Dan Kegel]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Arun Raghavan
<arun.raghavan at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
>>  ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:746:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: Connection terminated
>> or
>>  ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection terminated
>
> 1. Is there anything suspicious in your PA server logs? You can get
> verbose output by killing pulseaudio and running it manually with -vvvv
>
> 2. Also useful is running the test with PULSE_LOG=4 to get debug output
> on the client side.

Here's the debug output on the client side.  (Forgot to make the
server verbose, I'll try that next.)

../../../tools/runtest -q -P wine -M mmdevapi.dll -T ../../.. -p
mmdevapi_test.exe.so render.c && touch render.ok
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total
size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to
{750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3}unix:/home/bob/.pulse/750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3-runtime/native...
SHM possible: yes
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total
size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to
{750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3}unix:/home/bob/.pulse/750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3-runtime/native...
SHM possible: yes
Protocol version: remote 24, local 24
Negotiated SHM: yes
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total
size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to
{750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3}unix:/home/bob/.pulse/750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3-runtime/native...
SHM possible: yes
Protocol version: remote 24, local 24
Negotiated SHM: yes
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total
size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to
{750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3}unix:/home/bob/.pulse/750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3-runtime/native...
SHM possible: yes
Protocol version: remote 24, local 24
Negotiated SHM: yes
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 32
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total
size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to
{750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3}unix:/home/bob/.pulse/750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3-runtime/native...
SHM possible: yes
Protocol version: remote 24, local 24
Negotiated SHM: yes
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total
size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to
{750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3}unix:/home/bob/.pulse/750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3-runtime/native...
SHM possible: yes
Protocol version: remote 24, local 24
Negotiated SHM: yes
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total
size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to
{750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3}unix:/home/bob/.pulse/750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3-runtime/native...
SHM possible: yes
Protocol version: remote 24, local 24
Negotiated SHM: yes
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 32
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total
size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to
{750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3}unix:/home/bob/.pulse/750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3-runtime/native...
SHM possible: yes
Protocol version: remote 24, local 24
Negotiated SHM: yes
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 32
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:746:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create
stream: Connection terminated

render.c:215: Test failed: Initialize with 0 buffer size returns 80004005
Using shared memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total
size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65496
Trying to connect to
{750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3}unix:/home/bob/.pulse/750280eeb642fc16d86f4f34000002b3-runtime/native...
SHM possible: yes
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
Connection terminated

render.c:221: Test failed: Activation failed with 80004005