[clue] Help with PulseAudio crashing [Tech]

[Lorin Ricker]

Excellent question, Daryl!  Checking "$ groups lorin" shows that indeed 
I'm still a member of the audio group, so no, that's not it.  I 
appreciate the idea, however -- I'd forgotten to check that over the 
weekend!  -- Lorin

On 06/06/2011 04:27 PM, daryl kuchay wrote:
> @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
> <mailto: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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