Spontaneous pulseaudio death

[Neal Becker]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Hi gang.  I've recently been having spontaneous pulseaudio daemon deaths
> occuring.  The daemon just quits.  There is a trace of it in
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Oct 20 13:27:45 prophead pulseaudio[9301]: shm.c: shm_open() failed: No
> such file or directory
> Oct 20 13:27:45 prophead pulseaudio[9301]: pstream.c: Failed to import
> memory block.
> 
> Just curious if anyone else is experiencing this.  It may be related to
> a vpnc issue as it seems to happen after I've had to do a couple of
> vpnc...vpnc-disconnect cycles, but I can't confirm that as yet.
> 
> Oh, yeah, this is a fully updated F8 machine with pulseaudio 0.9.8 and
> vpnc 0.5.1.  Yes, I know F8 is old, but I need Xen for a couple of
> things and F9's dom0 for Xen is a no-go (says so in the release notes
> and confirmed by actual attempts to use it).
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PA keeps dying here all the time.  I find I have to logout/login to fix it.  No idea what causes it, and no errors logged that I've noticed.  It's VERY annoying.  This if fedora F9 with all updates.