Looks like that pid problem was a false positive: it came from completely different (and unrelated) source (audacious was spaming its log with alsa failures, eventually running out of disk space). But the alsa roblem stays unsolved.
Looks like that pid problem was a false positive: it came from completely different (and unrelated) source (audacious was spaming its log with alsa failures, eventually running out of disk space). But the alsa roblem stays unsolved.