I honestly don't know. I think it was related to a different bug in ALSA and I found out that forcing a restart of ALSA would fix it. It turned out it was PulseAudio related and programs that directly communicated to ALSA would cause the PA system to stop working right.
The honest truth is, other than inside of VirtualBox I've stopped using Linux on my home computer for the time being. -- compiz crash shuts down sound system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263050 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs