I can reliably reproduce this situation, both the problem itself, being that pulseaudio dies, and the fact that apport does not notice.
The reason for the latter is that pulseaudio is being killed with SIGKILL(!): recvmsg(21, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\0\0\0\30\377\377\377\377\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 20}], msg_controllen=24, {cmsg_len=24, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=14140, uid=1000, gid=1000}}, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 20 ppoll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=23, events=POLLIN}, {fd=30, events=POLLIN}, {fd=34, events=POLLIN}, {fd=33, events=POLLIN}, {fd=32, events=POLLIN}, {fd=31, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}, {fd=31, events=0}, {fd=24, events=POLLIN}, {fd=27, events=POLLIN}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}, {fd=16, events=0}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}], 20, NULL, NULL, 8) = 1 ([{fd=21, revents=POLLIN}]) recvmsg(21, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"L\0\0\0\16L\0\0\0NL\0\0\0\1TK\336\220\203\0\3D\203", 24}], msg_controllen=24, {cmsg_len=24, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=14140, uid=1000, gid=1000}}, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 24 read(17, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 read(17, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 read(17, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 read(17, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 read(17, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 read(17, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 read(17, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 read(17, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 read(17, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 futex(0x83d66a8, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 0, NULL <unfinished ...> +++ killed by SIGKILL +++ -- pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated errors not caught by apport https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532586 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