Today, 2.6.28-12.43-generic appeared in jaunty, and I installed it. This time, it took considerably longer until the music crashed (hours instead of minutes), but finally the crackling noise was back and "pulseaudio -vv" printed tons of these messages again:
D: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 4611686018107775812 bytes (139430568183 ms) Most likely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. D: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 4611686018107732804 bytes (139430568102 ms) Most likely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. D: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 4611686018107689796 bytes (139430568021 ms) Most likely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. D: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large: 4611686018107646788 bytes (139430567939 ms) Most likely this is a Linux bug. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. Ciao Martin -- pulseaudio: snd_pcm_avail_update() returned a value that is exceptionally large https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/323976 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs