from my syslog, it requests a report to ALSA developers. Let me know if I can provide further assistance. -Jason

$ tail /var/log/syslog Mar 17 13:58:25 virtub pulseaudio[1038]: alsa-source.c: ALSA woke us up to read new data from the device, but there was actually nothing to read! Mar 17 13:58:25 virtub pulseaudio[1038]: alsa-source.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. Mar 17 13:58:25 virtub pulseaudio[1038]: alsa-source.c: We were woken up with POLLIN set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail. Mar 17 13:58:26 virtub pulseaudio[1038]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Mar 17 13:58:26 virtub pulseaudio[1038]: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. Mar 17 13:58:26 virtub pulseaudio[1038]: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail. Mar 17 13:58:29 virtub gdm-session-worker[1030]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub rtkit-daemon[1043]: Sucessfully made thread 1256 of process 1256 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub rtkit-daemon[1043]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 2 users. Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub pulseaudio[1256]: alsa-util.c: Disabling timer-based scheduling because running inside a VM. Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub rtkit-daemon[1043]: Sucessfully made thread 1257 of process 1256 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub rtkit-daemon[1043]: Supervising 5 threads of 2 processes of 2 users. Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub pulseaudio[1256]: alsa-util.c: Disabling timer-based scheduling because running inside a VM. Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub rtkit-daemon[1043]: Sucessfully made thread 1258 of process 1256 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub rtkit-daemon[1043]: Supervising 6 threads of 2 processes of 2 users. Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub pulseaudio[1256]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub pulseaudio[1256]: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers. Mar 17 13:58:35 virtub pulseaudio[1256]: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail. Mar 17 13:59:40 virtub AptDaemon: INFO: Initializing daemon

root@virtub:/var/log# uname -a Linux virtub 2.6.32-29-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 11 20:52:10 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@virtub:/var/log# dpkg -s pulseaudio Package: pulseaudio Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 4540 Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 Replaces: pulseaudio-module-hal, pulseaudio-module-rygel-media-server (<< 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14), pulseaudio-module-udev (<< 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-qu\ eue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14) Provides: pulseaudio-module-hal, pulseaudio-module-rygel-media-server, pulseaudio-module-udev Depends: libasound2 (>> 1.0.22), libc6 (>= 2.9), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libltdl7 (>= 2.2.6b), libpulse0 (= 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu1\ 4), libsamplerate0, libsm6, libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20), libspeexdsp1 (>= 1.2~beta3.2-1), libtdb1 (>= 1.1.2~git20080520), libudev0 (>= 147), libx11-6 (>= 0), libxtst6, adduser, lsb\ -base (>= 3), consolekit, libasound2-plugins, pulseaudio-utils Recommends: pulseaudio-module-x11, gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio, pulseaudio-esound-compat, rtkit Suggests: pavumeter, paman, paprefs Conflicts: libltdl3 (<< 1.5.24-1), pulseaudio-module-rygel-media-server (<< 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14), pulseaudio-module-udev (<< 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-\ queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14) Conffiles: /etc/default/pulseaudio 5ac1e3004508adbb816e9b1af352617e /etc/init.d/pulseaudio bd6ccc065d494d8baac1d823521833b4 /etc/pulse/default.pa d2d623c97aef9f81f5b55f2d7e736c87 /etc/pulse/system.pa 182fbc3ba3449027c4d1e39a150c8396 /etc/pulse/daemon.conf ed3746b9cd3ba486184128fd611b73c9 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf 69d56dc5342bf589a2e199541709a452 /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop 1310d377ad0d534f699e864037f66bd2 Description: PulseAudio sound server PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture. . These are some of PulseAudio's features: . * High quality software mixing of multiple audio streams with support for more than one sink/source. May be used to combine multiple sound cards into one (with sample rate adjustment). . * Wide range of supported client libraries. ESD, ALSA, oss, libao and GStreamer client applications are supported as-is. Native PulseAudio plug-ins are also available for xmms and mplayer. . * Good low latency behaviour and very accurate latency measurement for playback and recording. Ability to fully synchronize multiple playback streams. . * Network transparency, allowing an application to play back or record audio on a different machine than the one it is running on. . * Extensible plug-in architecture with plug-ins for jackd, multicast-rtp lirc and avahi, just to name a few. . This package contains the daemon and basic module set. Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org Original-Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team < pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> root@virtub:/var/log#