Unstable system after installing 18.04 LTS

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 23 May 2020 14:50:37 -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>  I had discovered (in the latest syslog) the following messages from 
>pulseaudio[1461]:
>
>snd_pcm_delay() returned a value that is exceptionally large: -719240 
>bytes (-4077 ms).
>
>Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please 
>report this issue to the ALSA developers.

Either beliefe that HAL picked up a fault in the second AE-35
unit, too, or consider that something is wrong with HAL. IOW
alternatively to reporting a pulseaudio issue against ALSA, purge
pulseaudio from the install.