On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 10:32 +1300, John Nunnington wrote: > I'm running Ubuntu 16.10 and 16.04, and I get repeatable failures in > Spotify that are caused by the pulseaudio daemon dying. > > I don't get this issue when my sound is configured in analog-stereo through > the sound card, or when outputing to the speaker system through the > motherboard (which is 2.0 anyway). Any other configuration > (4.0,4.1,5.05.1), fails within 5-25 minutes. > > I've reported this through ubuntu-bugs but nothing seems to happen. > > Can anybody either confirm they've seen this before, or tell me how I can > gather some additional information to assist resolving this ?? How does it die? Does it abort due to an assertion failure, or does a segmentation fault happen, or does it get killed? If you don't know, and you don't find the information from the syslog, run pulseaudio in a terminal. Instructions for running pulseaudio in a terminal can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
