Hi,
Some time after booting my PC the sound goes off, all applications plays no more sound without any error message.
Finally I took a time for analyzing and I see playing a flash video, the following message from Firefox:
ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:752:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: Too large
It's hard to suspect from SAPGUI, but it's the origin of the problem.
I tested these versions:
7.20rev11 (no sound)
7.30rev2 (fine: for each sound opens a sink and client, and closes in 5 seconds)
7.30rev9 (wrong: for each sound opens a sink and client, and remains until sapgui is closed)
7.30rev10 (wrong: like 7.30rev9)
7.40 (wrong: like 7.30rev9)
I have no more revisions for 7.30 installed and I don't see changes in the release notes in between.
The problem starts somewhere in 7.30, which don't close the audio streams and occupies all available even for other programs.
Any of you noticed the problem? maybe with different linux configuration... although mine is pretty standard.
More info:
aitor@myhost:~$ pactl list|grep application.name
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [java]"
module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-application-name:ALSA plug-in [java]"
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [java]"
module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-application-name:ALSA plug-in [java]"
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [java]"
module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-application-name:ALSA plug-in [java]"
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [java]"
module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-application-name:ALSA plug-in [java]"
application.name = "Login Session c1"
application.name = "KMix"
application.name = "XSMP Session on KDE as 10108d5cadf000142139132800000024070045"
application.name = "KMix"
application.name = "KNotify"
application.name = "libcanberra"
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [java]"
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [java]"
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [java]"
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [java]"
application.name = "pactl"
application.name = "libcanberra"
aitor@myhost:~$ pactl list
...
Sink Input #307
Driver: protocol-native.c
Owner Module: 9
Client: 2907
Sink: 0
Sample Specification: s16le 1ch 44100Hz
Channel Map: mono
Format: pcm, format.sample_format = "\"s16le\"" format.rate = "44100" format.channels = "1" format.channel_map = "\"mono\""
Corked: no
Mute: no
Volume: 0: 100%
0: 0.00 dB
balance 0.00
Buffer Latency: 0 usec
Sink Latency: 18860 usec
Resample method: copy
Properties:
media.name = "ALSA Playback"
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [java]"
native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client"
native-protocol.version = "28"
application.process.id = "20846"
application.process.user = "aitor"
application.process.host = "myhost"
application.process.binary = "java"
application.language = "es_ES.UTF-8"
window.x11.display = ":0"
application.process.machine_id = "676375716da5263758e8a9c3000004d4"
application.process.session_id = "c1"
module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-application-name:ALSA plug-in [java]"
...
Client #2907
Driver: protocol-native.c
Owner Module: 9
Properties:
application.name = "ALSA plug-in [java]"
native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client"
native-protocol.version = "28"
application.process.id = "20846"
application.process.user = "aitor"
application.process.host = "myhost"
application.process.binary = "java"
application.language = "es_ES.UTF-8"
window.x11.display = ":0"
application.process.machine_id = "676375716da5263758e8a9c3000004d4"
application.process.session_id = "c1"
aitor@myhost:~$ ps -ef|grep 15589
aitor 15589 2204 14 11:18 ? 00:00:17 java -Xms32M -Xmx512M -cp /opt/SAPClients/SAPGUI7.40/jar/GuiStartS.jar com.sap.platin.Gui
aitor@myhost:~$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_21"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_21-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.21-b01, mixed mode)
aitor@myhost:~$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_25-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.25-b02, mixed mode)
aitor@myhost:~$ pulseaudio --version
pulseaudio 4.0
aitor@myhost:~$ uname -a
Linux myhost 3.13.0-43-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 8 19:35:06 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
aitor@myhost:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty