CentOS - Oct 2012 - Sound Stutters and Sputters then dies

Hey Y'all,

Recently my sound has been misbehaving.  The issue exists when I play 
sound using Rhythmbox, Totem Movie Player, or even Youtube video in 
Firefox or Chrome.  The sound stutters and drops out.  Sounds very 
rough.  On Youtube the sound will eventually just die and can not be 
restarted until the browser is shut down and restarted.

I've had issues related to Repo Forge packages in the past but there are 
no Repo Forge packages on my system.

[mlapier at mushroom ~]$ rpm -qa | grep rf
[mlapier at mushroom ~]$

Does anyone out there have some magic incantations to make Yum 
re-install the sound system?

CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Oct 16 14:40:53 
UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 14:13 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Does anyone out there have some magic incantations to make Yum 
> re-install the sound system?
Single core or multi core cpu?  Latest Adobe Flash?

What is the Priority of 'pulse', rbox. firefox etc.

Alsa: Are they box stock rhel or centos?

alsa-lib-devel
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
alsa-lib
alsa-utils

USB Sound Card ? very problematic..
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On 10/27/2012 07:38 PM, John Stanley wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 14:13 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>
>> Does anyone out there have some magic incantations to make Yum
>> re-install the sound system?
>
> Single core or multi core cpu?  Latest Adobe Flash?
>
> What is the Priority of 'pulse', rbox. firefox etc.
>
> Alsa: Are they box stock rhel or centos?
>
> alsa-lib-devel
> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
> alsa-lib
> alsa-utils
>
> USB Sound Card ? very problematic..
>
>
>
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Note that sound on this system has been working correctly since I 
installed CentOS many months ago.  This problem started only within the 
last week or two.

Duel Core Athlon 64

flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-release.i386
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.22-3.el6.i686
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.21-3.el6.i686
alsa-lib-1.0.22-3.el6.i686
alsa-utils-1.0.22-3.el6.i686

[root at mushroom ~]# lspci
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)



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On 10/27/2012 02:13 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Hey Y'all,
>
> Recently my sound has been misbehaving.  The issue exists when I play
> sound using Rhythmbox, Totem Movie Player, or even Youtube video in
> Firefox or Chrome.  The sound stutters and drops out.  Sounds very
> rough.  On Youtube the sound will eventually just die and can not be
> restarted until the browser is shut down and restarted.
>
> I've had issues related to Repo Forge packages in the past but there
are
> no Repo Forge packages on my system.
>
> [mlapier at mushroom ~]$ rpm -qa | grep rf
> [mlapier at mushroom ~]$
>
> Does anyone out there have some magic incantations to make Yum
> re-install the sound system?
>
> CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
> Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Oct 16 14:40:53
> UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
I've noticed that when I try to erase gstreamer it wants to remove 137 
packages due to dependency.  So instead, I tried to erase pulseaudio. 
That wanted to remove three packages for dependency:

Removed:
   pulseaudio.i686 0:0.9.21-14.el6_3

Dependency Removed:
   alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 0:1.0.21-3.el6
   pulseaudio-module-gconf.i686 0:0.9.21-14.el6_3
   pulseaudio-module-x11.i686 0:0.9.21-14.el6_3

Then when I re-installed pulseaudio:

No package pulseaudio-module available.

Installing:
  alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 1.0.21-3.el6    base
  pulseaudio.i686 0.9.21-14.el6_3              updates
  pulseaudio-module-gconf.i686 0.9.21-14.el6_3 updates
  pulseaudio-module-x11.i686 0.9.21-14.el6_3   updates

No changes in package revisions but it does seem to have solved my 
issue.  Playback is now nice and smooth.  No more dropouts, sputtering, 
stuttering, or lockups.  Who would have thunk it?

Thank you to all of you who tried to help.  I really appreciate it.


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