[clue] Help with PulseAudio crashing [Tech]

[daryl kuchay]

@Lorin,

Stupid question but did you get removed from the audio group somehow during
your upgrade?

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Lorin Ricker <Lorin at rickernet.us> wrote:

> Not being one to "fix it if it ain't broke", I was impelled over this
> past weekend to finally upgrade my Ubuntu Studio box from 9.10 (Karmic,
> which is now unsupported) to 10.4 (Lucid/LTS).  Things actually went
> pretty smoothly, with only a couple of issues after the upgrade reboot.
>
> 1. Upon initial login, my Gnome UI's windows were missing the title-bar
> decoration, which meant that I couldn't move or resize windows(!).
> After a bit of puzzling about this, I right-clicked on the desktop
> background to bring up "Change Desktop Background", went to the "Visual
> Effects" tab, changed the setting from "None" (somehow [re]set by the
> upgrade) to "Normal", clicked Close -- and windows were a-ok again.
>
> 2. More vexing than the above:  I now see that my (sound) Volume Control
> app (pavucontrol) dies repeatedly after "some long use" with a
> "Connection failed: Connection refused" error box.  This is repeatable,
> but I cannot find the cause yet.  Attempts to click on the menu-bar icon
> to restart the app just give me another "Connection refused" box,
> until...
>
> I can get things restarted with the following com-line:
>
>   $ pulseaudio & pavucontrol
>
> This gives yet another "Connection refused" error box, but after
> dismissing this, the menu-bar icon works again.  For awhile...
>
> Anyone got any experience with this problem?  And a good, permanent fix?
>
> I've checked my resources, esp. Ubuntu Forums (Studio threads, etc.),
> but all I'm getting there is a lot of noise and conjecture, not much
> authoritative help.
>
> TIA for any wisdom, experience and/or helpful advice...
> best regards,
>   -- Lorin
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