Public bug reported: While no audio at all is playing, pulseaudio loops through its configuration and also loops through complaints about latency, generating tens of thousands of messages per hour, writing constantly to disk and bringing system performance to a crawl, culminating in a GUI freeze.
Something, either the nvidia driver, gnome-shell/gnome-session, or xorg, is preventing pulseaudio from connecting to the default audio device because it often fails with a SIGFPE. Ubuntu Desktop 20.04.4 pulseaudio 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.13 Expected behavior: stability Behavior: 6-10 GUI freezes daily at random times and intervals. Happy to answer any questions but I don't know where to start. I'm on day 12 of an involuntary reinstall of 20.04 by reason of catastrophic hardware failure and have exhausted all avenues. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.13 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-40.45~20.04.1-generic 5.13.19 Uname: Linux 5.13.0-40-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.23 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip Date: Sat Apr 23 21:52:07 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-09 (14 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 05/08/2015 dmi.bios.release: 4.6 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1704 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: P9X79-E WS dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1704:bd05/08/2015:br4.6:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnP9X79-EWS:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:skuSKU: dmi.product.family: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.name: System Product Name dmi.product.sku: SKU dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer modified.conffile..etc.pulse.daemon.conf: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.daemon.conf: 2022-04-21T10:29:58.184759 ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1970078 Title: pulseaudio loops through configuration, logging tens of thousands of messages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1970078/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs