Public bug reported: Sound playback is unstable on my Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS running on Virtual Box (host machine iMac MK462).
The easiest way to reproduce (at least for me): start Firefox, play something on Youtube, close Firefox, restart Firefox, no sound for videos (or VLC player or aplay). Killing /usr/bin/pulseaudio fixes the issue until something is started and restarted again. grep -i pulseaudio /var/log/syslog contains following lines Sep 1 16:38:17 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Disabling timer-based scheduling because running inside a VM. Sep 1 16:38:17 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Disabling timer-based scheduling because running inside a VM. Sep 1 16:38:42 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. Sep 1 16:38:53 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [alsa-sink-Intel ICH] alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write. Sep 1 16:38:53 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [alsa-sink-Intel ICH] alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. Sep 1 16:38:53 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [alsa-sink-Intel ICH] alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail. ** Affects: alsa-driver (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment added: "dmesg" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1619425/+attachment/4732498/+files/dmesg ** Description changed: Sound playback is unstable on my Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS running on Virtual Box (host machine iMac MK462). The easiest way to reproduce (at least for me): start Firefox, play something on Youtube, close Firefox, restart Firefox, no sound for videos (or VLC player or aplay). Killing /usr/bin/pulseaudio fixes the issue until next round. + + grep -i pulseaudio /var/log/syslog contains following lines + + Sep 1 16:38:17 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Disabling timer-based scheduling because running inside a VM. + Sep 1 16:38:17 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Disabling timer-based scheduling because running inside a VM. + Sep 1 16:38:42 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. + Sep 1 16:38:53 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [alsa-sink-Intel ICH] alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write. + Sep 1 16:38:53 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [alsa-sink-Intel ICH] alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. + Sep 1 16:38:53 jasu pulseaudio[4574]: [alsa-sink-Intel ICH] alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1619425 Title: audio unstable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1619425/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs