[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#553993: pulseaudio: pulse assert kills unrelated app

[Michael Stone]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.19-2
Severity: important

My pidgin session just died with:

Assertion '!in_worker(m)' failed at pulse/thread-mainloop.c:161, function pa_threaded_mainloop_stop(). Aborting.

This seems to be pulseaudio related, though I don't know where in the maze of
twisty audio lib this assert is (could also be gstreamer?)

I'm also getting this in my syslog:

Nov  2 08:05:27 annuminas pulseaudio[5282]: ratelimit.c: 91 events suppressed
Nov  2 08:07:20 annuminas pulseaudio[5282]: ratelimit.c: 76 events suppressed
Nov  2 08:08:09 annuminas pulseaudio[5282]: ratelimit.c: 78 events suppressed
Nov  2 08:08:44 annuminas pulseaudio[5282]: ratelimit.c: 64 events suppressed
Nov  2 08:13:18 annuminas pulseaudio[5282]: ratelimit.c: 74 events suppressed
Nov  2 08:13:32 annuminas pulseaudio[5282]: ratelimit.c: 63 events suppressed
Nov  2 08:13:52 annuminas pulseaudio[5282]: ratelimit.c: 61 events suppressed
Nov  2 08:19:18 annuminas pulseaudio[5282]: ratelimit.c: 60 events suppressed
Nov  2 08:19:53 annuminas pulseaudio[5282]: ratelimit.c: 70 events suppressed
Nov  2 08:20:04 annuminas pulseaudio[5282]: ratelimit.c: 70 events suppressed

Which is extremely unhelpful as it never indicates what's being suppressed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.111      add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                    0.3.1-2    framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2                    1.0.21a-1  shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libasyncns0                   0.3-1      Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6                         2.10.1-3   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2                       1:2.17-2   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgdbm3                      1.8.3-7    GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.5-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libltdl7                      2.2.6a-4   A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpulse0                     0.9.19-2   PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.7-3    Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.20-3   Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-1  The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libudev0                      146-6      libudev shared library
ii  libwrap0                      7.6.q-18   Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.2-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.0.3-1  X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          146-6      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.10.16-5  GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.21-3   ALSA library additional plugins
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat      0.9.19-2   PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.19-2   X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman                         0.9.4-1    PulseAudio Manager
ii  paprefs                       0.9.9-1    PulseAudio Preferences
ii  pavucontrol                   0.9.9-1    PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pavumeter                     0.9.3-1    PulseAudio Volume Meter
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.19-2   Command line tools for the PulseAu

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