pulseaudio keeps crashing for me too on Zesty, maybe about once a day. It didn't happen in earlier releases.
When it crashes, volume controls (Fn+F2/F3 hotkeys on my laptop, and in Unity's upper panel) no longer work. Manually launching "pulseaudio --start" fixes the Unity panel's control, but does not fix the more convenient keyboard shortcuts. Logging out and back in fixes everything. Seems to me that existing Firefox processes (or tabs? not sure) can still play sound when there's no pulseaudio running (no clue how), but newly opened ones cannot. Let me know if there's anything I can help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1675892 Title: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: A random pulseaudio crash ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:10.0-1ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 4.10.4-041004-lowlatency x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: bonnaudl 1902 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Thu Mar 23 07:51:00 2017 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pulseaudio ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Signal: 6 SourcePackage: pulseaudio Stacktrace: #0 <signal handler called> No locals. #1 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. Backtrace stopped: Cannot access memory at address 0x0 StacktraceTop: ?? () Title: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-03-12 (12 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare staff dmi.bios.date: 03/25/2013 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: P1.50 dmi.board.name: HM77-HT dmi.board.vendor: ASRock dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.50:bd03/25/2013:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnHM77-HT:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1675892/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
