Bug#687887: pulseaudio: Distorted sound as soon as there is a pidgin notification sound

[Frederik Himpe]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 2.0-6
Severity: normal

Sometimes sound completely becomes distorted, sounding as some high pitch
garbled sound. This problem is always triggered by pidgin playing a
notification sound, although it does not happen every time pidgin plays sound.
The sound of all applications playing at that moment, is completely garbled. I
need to stop the application playing sound, and restart it to get normal sound
again.

In pidgin, I have the sound method set to "Alsa".

To reproduce: I watch DVB-T in Kaffeine, and have pidgin running. All of a
sudden when pidgin plays a notification sound, both the pidgin sound as the
kaffeine sound becomes garbled. Sound in Kaffeine remains garbled, until I
restart it. Killing pulseaudio and restarting playback in kaffeine, also fixes
the problem.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                    0.4.5-3.1
ii  libasound2                    1.0.25-4
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.25-2
ii  libc6                         2.13-35
ii  libcap2                       1:2.22-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.6.0-1
ii  libfftw3-3                    3.3.2-3.1
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.7.1-7
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.8-2
ii  libltdl7                      2.4.2-1.1
ii  liborc-0.4-0                  1:0.4.16-2
ii  libpulse0                     2.0-6
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.8-5
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.25-5
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-6
ii  libstdc++6                    4.7.1-7
ii  libsystemd-daemon0            44-4
ii  libsystemd-login0             44-4
ii  libtdb1                       1.2.10-2
ii  libudev0                      175-7
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-2
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.5.0-1
ii  libx11-xcb1                   2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcb1                       1.8.1-1
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.1-1
ii  lsb-base                      4.1+Debian7
ii  udev                          175-7

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11     2.0-6
ii  rtkit                     0.10-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman             <none>
pn  paprefs           <none>
ii  pavucontrol       1.0-1
pn  pavumeter         <none>
ii  pulseaudio-utils  2.0-6

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