[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#486132: [pulseaudio] pulseaudio not starting when alsa not yet in use

[Erich Schubert]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.10-2

Hi,
I'm also seeing this problem:
E: source.c: Assertion 'PA_SOURCE_OPENED(s->thread_info.state)' failed at pulsecore/source.c:278, function pa_source_post(). Aborting.

I can however reliably reproduce it:
Whenever I start pulseaudio and currently NO application has opened audio, pulseaudio will NOT start.
When I have e.g. mpd playing music on the alsa device, pulseaudio will start.

Note that I have a rather complex setup, something like this

pulse -> plug -> softvol  -> dmixer -> hw
mpd           -> softvol2 -> ^^^

So I have the impression pulse fails to setup the alsa plugins such as softvol and plug.


--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.26-1-686

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  500 unstable        ftp.de.debian.org 
    1 experimental    ftp.de.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends               (Version) | Installed
===============================-+-=============
libasound2          (>> 1.0.16) | 1.0.16-2
libasyncns0                     | 0.3-1
libc6                (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-13
libcap1                         | 1:1.10-14
libdbus-1-3          (>= 1.0.2) | 1.2.1-3
libflac8                        | 1.2.1-1.2
libltdl3           (>= 1.5.2-2) | 1.5.26-4
libogg0             (>= 1.0rc3) | 1.1.3-4
liboil0.3            (>= 0.3.1) | 0.3.15-1
libpulsecore5                   | 0.9.10-2
libsamplerate0                  | 0.1.4-1
libsndfile1                     | 1.0.17-4
libwrap0            (>= 7.6-4~) | 7.6.q-16
adduser                         | 3.110
lsb-base                 (>= 3) | 3.2-19


best regards,
Erich Schubert
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