My pulseaudio server seems to be hung up (spinning in fact). paplay has this to say: $ paplay /mnt/mp3/bad_mouth.wav Connection failure: Timeout A backtrace of pulseaudio right now shows it at: Thread 4 (Thread 0xb738eb90 (LWP 13179)): #0 0xb80c4430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7c431b4 in ppoll () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb806ecee in pa_rtpoll_run (p=0x8d778c0, wait=true) at pulsecore/rtpoll.c:394 #3 0xb74b1bb5 in thread_func (userdata=0x8d773a8) at modules/module-alsa-sink.c:642 #4 0xb8072842 in internal_thread_func (userdata=0x8d80998) at pulsecore/thread-posix.c:73 #5 0xb7cd050f in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #6 0xb7c4d7ee in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Thread 3 (Thread 0xb6b8db90 (LWP 13180)): #0 0xb80c4430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7cd710b in read () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #2 0xb806bf83 in pa_fdsem_wait (f=0x8d82b00) at /usr/include/bits/unistd.h:45 #3 0xb806b0a3 in pa_asyncq_push (l=0x8d83758, p=0xb6258970, wait=1) at pulsecore/asyncq.c:132 #4 0xb806a6c1 in pa_asyncmsgq_post (a=0x8d82c70, object=0xb6202540, code=0, userdata=0x0, offset=0, chunk=0xb6b8d30c, free_cb=0) at pulsecore/asyncmsgq.c:139 #5 0xb74eccdc in source_output_push_cb (o=0xb6228c38, chunk=0xb6b8d30c) at pulsecore/protocol-native.c:1116 #6 0xb8065e91 in pa_source_output_push (o=0xb6228c38, chunk=0xb6b8d30c) at pulsecore/source-output.c:341 #7 0xb80624b7 in pa_source_post (s=0x8d93b18, chunk=0xb6b8d30c) at pulsecore/source.c:302 #8 0xb749bc73 in thread_func (userdata=0x8d70758) at modules/module-alsa-source.c:179 #9 0xb8072842 in internal_thread_func (userdata=0x8d94268) at pulsecore/thread-posix.c:73 #10 0xb7cd050f in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #11 0xb7c4d7ee in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Thread 2 (Thread 0xb61ffb90 (LWP 9228)): #0 0xb80c4430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7c431b4 in ppoll () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb806ecee in pa_rtpoll_run (p=0xb6231c10, wait=true) at pulsecore/rtpoll.c:394 #3 0xb74b1bb5 in thread_func (userdata=0xb6201918) at modules/module-alsa-sink.c:642 #4 0xb8072842 in internal_thread_func (userdata=0xb6235690) at pulsecore/thread-posix.c:73 #5 0xb7cd050f in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #6 0xb7c4d7ee in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Thread 1 (Thread 0xb7b29920 (LWP 13178)): #0 0xb80c4430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7cd6405 in sem_wait@@GLIBC_2.1 () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #2 0xb8072a38 in pa_semaphore_wait (s=0x8d81270) at pulsecore/semaphore-posix.c:65 #3 0xb8069f6d in pa_asyncmsgq_send (a=0x8d83138, object=0x8d93b18, code=6, userdata=0xbfac37f8, offset=0, chunk=0x0) at pulsecore/asyncmsgq.c:169 #4 0xb8061f58 in pa_source_get_latency (s=0x8d93b18) at pulsecore/source.c:318 #5 0xb74f43c8 in command_get_record_latency (pd=0xb6220558, command=57, tag=645, t=0xb6220980, userdata=0xb6229818) at pulsecore/protocol-native.c:1777 #6 0xb74cba99 in pa_pdispatch_run (pd=0xb6220558, packet=0xb622b540, creds=0x0, userdata=0xb6229818) at pulsecore/pdispatch.c:241 #7 0xb74ef1b2 in pstream_packet_callback (p=0xb62619b0, packet=0xb622b540, creds=0x0, userdata=0xb6229818) at pulsecore/protocol-native.c:3105 #8 0xb74d502b in do_something (p=0xb62619b0) at pulsecore/pstream.c:818 #9 0xb7506488 in callback (m=0x8d7268c, e=0xb625eb50, fd=58, f=<value optimized out>, userdata=0xb6250a98) at pulsecore/iochannel.c:121 #10 0xb801fd49 in pa_mainloop_dispatch (m=0x8d72648) at pulse/mainloop.c:679 #11 0xb80200a1 in pa_mainloop_iterate (m=0x8d72648, block=1, retval=0xbfac3b04) at pulse/mainloop.c:922 #12 0xb8020164 in pa_mainloop_run (m=0x8d72648, retval=0xbfac3b04) at pulse/mainloop.c:937 #13 0x0805118d in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfac3bb4) at daemon/main.c:812 dpkg says I'm using 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.1 (which is probably your 0.9.10 release) and I'm on Ubuntu Intrepid. I still have it running if there is any more information I can gather. Otherwise, I guess I need to restart it. After I kill it and run another with say, the gnome-run tool (or in a terminal), will all of the clients (i.e. ESD clients, firefox, etc.) reconnect to the new server instance? Thanx, b.