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alsa-lib package

  1. Bug #451893
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 451893

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chris_c (c-camacho) wrote :

I believe my problem to be the same but with slightly different log spam

Nov 1 14:48:07 chris-desktop pulseaudio[3973]: alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device surround51:1: Too many open files
Nov 1 14:48:07 chris-desktop pulseaudio[3973]: alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device surround51:1: Too many open files
Nov 1 14:48:07 chris-desktop pulseaudio[3973]: alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device surround51:1: Too many open files
Nov 1 14:48:07 chris-desktop pulseaudio[3973]: alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device surround51:1: Too many open files
Nov 1 14:48:07 chris-desktop pulseaudio[3973]: alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device surround51:1: Too many open files
Nov 1 14:48:07 chris-desktop pulseaudio[3973]: alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device surround51:1: Too many open files

after a *year* this is *still* not production ready, really quite embarrassing, you can't blame alsa for pulse audio's
poor error handling, even if alsa totally fails pulse audio should NOT be flooding logs its a potential security flaw...

 #!/bin/bash
killall pulseaudio
pulse-session

use this script as a workaround