Audio dies (F17)

[Braden McDaniel]

After some amount of time, audio seems to die when running Fedora 17.
That is, I no longer get sound and the volume icon no longer appears in
the gnome-shell top bar.

Incidentally, I believe it is after this occurs that I see bug 794929.

I get no abrt event whenever audio goes away; so I'm not even sure
exactly what's dying.  What process(es) should I be watching to try and
get some useful information to debug this?

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Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>