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Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate?

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Hello Jennifer,

while I can't help you fix the particular pulseaudio problem, I might
have an alternative for you, since you are already using the bookworm
distribution.

Try installing the package pipewire-pulse. It contains a pulseaudio
daemon replacement, which works without any problems for me. As I
understand it, pipewire is (among other things) the designated successor
of pulseaudio.

You might have to disable the pulseaudio daemon (through systemd?). I
have even uninstalled pulseaudio just now that I was looking at that
topic, I will inform you, if audio is gone after next boot...

Regards,
Christian


Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> For the last month or so, Pulseaudio has been crashing for me. It seems
> to happen only when I use certain apps, such as watching video with VLC,
> or watching embedded videos in Firefox. It does not happen when
> listening to audio through an audio player, or having Zoom calls. After
> a crash,
> the Pulseaudio Volume Control will give a "connecting to Pulseaudio"
> error. Restarting with either "pulseaudio --start" or "pulseaudio -k"
> will hang for
> 10-20 seconds, and then "work", in that "ps" will show Pulse is running,
> but I still can't play music (through anything), and the volume app
> shows the
> same error. This will last a few minutes, until sound starts again.
> 
> This was on Bullseye; I recently upgraded to Bookworm (for other
> reasons, though I hoped it would help with this), and it's still
> happening, although
> now "pulseaudio --start" will respond almost instantly. However, it
> still takes a few minutes for sound to come back.
> 
> Where do I look for help on this? /var/log/messages shows warnings about
> a deprecated module, but nothing more serious than that. I'm not sure where
> these crashes might be recorded, or what else to do. But having sound is
> very important to me, so I'd love to fix this!

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Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate? "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> - 2021-12-03 16:50 +0100
  Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate? Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-12-03 17:10 +0100
  Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate? "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> - 2021-12-08 15:40 +0100
    Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate? Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-12-08 16:20 +0100

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