PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: Too large"

[dj_segfault]

I have been frustrated with sound failures for as long as pulseaudio has been a part of Linux, and I'm trying my best to diagnose problems. In Ubuntu 9.10, I'm finding that when some apps run, no other app can output sound, and they just freeze. If I am running mythtvfrontend, and try to play a video from gnome-terminal, the video doesn't even start. When I exit mythtvfrontend, the video starts. If I play a streamed Flash movie in Firefox, most of the time any app that tries to output sound after it will be silent, and eventually sound won't work from Flash either.

I tried running firefox in debug mode, and saw some interesting output. The relevant portion is HUNDREDS of lines saying "ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:724:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: Too large". I searched the PA bug database and didn't find that phrase in any existing bugs. I did see mention of it in Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554568

[lennart]

So why do you file this bug here then? It already has been fixed, and we dealt with this in the rhbz bug you found.

Also:

http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/UbuntuBugs

So please, report this to Launchpad, and let the Ubuntu folks filter and escalate to us. Thank you.

[dj_segfault]

I apologize for the inappropriate bug report. Thanks for correcting me. I didn't see the Fedora but as being identical, only close.

Posted to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/534482

[coling]

Please also note that mythfrontend goes out of it's way to disable pulseaudio. Personally I've been running mythfrontend on top of PA for years without any problem. You should look at the debug output from mythfrontend as it will print an environment variable you can put in your .bashrc to make mythfrontend run happily on top of PA.