Bug#649641: Bug #649641: pulseaudio mutex issue on Alpha architecture

[Michael Cree]

On 5/11/2012, at 5:59 AM, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 01:46:27PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
>> Other hints that this is a kernel problem introduced somewhere  
>> between
>> 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 is that the eglibc test suite passes on 2.6.38 and
>> older kernels, but fails on 2.6.39 and newer kernels with failures in
>> mutex related tests.
>>
>> Maybe this bug should be reassigned to the linux kernel?
>
> Does this still occur with recent kernels and pulseaudio versions?

It is now fixed in the kernel; commit 62aca403657fe upstream.  It was  
a problem with futexes.

Cheers
Michael.