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  1. Bug #426556
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 426556

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Alex Peters (alex-peters) wrote :

In my case, syslog is going crazy with these lines being output multiple times per second:

Mar 26 13:46:20 europa pulseaudio[20254]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "sink_name=M2496_out device=hw:M2496 format=s32le channels=10 channel_map=left,right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3,aux4,aux5,aux6,aux7"): initialization failed.
Mar 26 13:46:20 europa pulseaudio[20254]: main.c: Module load failed.
Mar 26 13:46:20 europa pulseaudio[20254]: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
Mar 26 13:46:20 europa pulseaudio[20252]: main.c: Daemon startup failed.
Mar 26 13:46:20 europa rtkit-daemon[1326]: Warning: Reached burst limit for user '1000', denying request.
Mar 26 13:46:20 europa rtkit-daemon[1326]: last message repeated 14 times

Based on this, I now wonder whether this also shows buggy behaviour in PulseAudio.

In any case, I don't believe that PulseAudio should be asked to spawn repeatedly when it's failing to load.