On Saturday 25 October 2008 17:46, Neal Becker wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: > > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Hi gang. I've recently been having spontaneous pulseaudio daemon deaths > >> occuring. The daemon just quits. There is a trace of it in > >> /var/log/messages: > >> > >> Oct 20 13:27:45 prophead pulseaudio[9301]: shm.c: shm_open() failed: No > >> such file or directory > >> Oct 20 13:27:45 prophead pulseaudio[9301]: pstream.c: Failed to import > >> memory block. > >> > >> Just curious if anyone else is experiencing this. It may be related to > >> a vpnc issue as it seems to happen after I've had to do a couple of > >> vpnc...vpnc-disconnect cycles, but I can't confirm that as yet. > >> > >> Oh, yeah, this is a fully updated F8 machine with pulseaudio 0.9.8 and > >> vpnc 0.5.1. Yes, I know F8 is old, but I need Xen for a couple of > >> things and F9's dom0 for Xen is a no-go (says so in the release notes > >> and confirmed by actual attempts to use it). > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > PA keeps dying here all the time. I find I have to logout/login to fix > > it. No idea what causes it, and no errors logged that I've noticed. > > It's VERY annoying. This if fedora F9 with all updates. > > Sorry, it seems this is not my problem. pulseaudio is still alive, but I > get no sound. If I kill and restart pulseaudio, it complains that the > device is in use. If I logout/login, the sound is fixed. This happens > every day after I'm logged in for a while, but I still have no idea what > triggers it. If there is no particular reason why you need to use Pulseaudio, why not simply disable it, by removing the package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio. By doing this your sound apps will now use Alsa directly as default, and Pulseaudio will no longer enter the equation. Just a suggestion. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines