pulseaudio does not start after kernel update

[Antti J. Huhtala]

su, 2008-07-27 kello 11:29 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia kirjoitti:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm suspicious that PulseAudio is not starting properly after kernel 
> updates. For example, if I start Skype, I got the message: "problem with 
> audio playback". Or if I try "Applications->Sound & Video->PulseAudio 
> Volume Control", I got the message "connection refused". And finally:
> [root at d510 ~]# aplay
> *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
> *** Is your sound server running?
> *** See: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Troubleshooting
> aplay: main:564: audio open error: Connection refused
> 
> 
> I'm running Fedora 9 in a Dell Latitude D510 (old low spec machine). 
> Does anyone else having similar problem?
> 
Yes, same and similar problems. I haven't tried Skype but when I
redirected gtreamer stream to USB headphones instead of the usual
loudspeakers of my Athlon64 desktop, Rhythmbox would play one track for
a couple of minutes but then sound suddenly died in the middle of the
track. I didn't do anything but listened.

'dmesg | grep pulseaudio' shows this:

pulseaudio[2696]: segfault at 7f6acfca7330 ip 7f6acfca7330 sp
7fffdd2d5b58 error 14 in pulse-shm-1926128445[7f6ad04e6000+201000]

It is high above my grasp of things to even try to guess what this
means. It probably is a new quirk, appearing after latest kernel update.

Antti