Bug#777178: pulseaudio: Pulseaudio often crashes. Makes crackling sound on (re)start

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Christoph,

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:19 PM, christoph <zaunmayrchris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 5.0-13
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Pulseaudio often crashes when i start applications that use Pulseaudio (like
> chrome, vlc, virtualbox, ...). It always crashes when i start pavucontrol.
> When it crashes i get this output at the terminal:
>
> (  77.968|   0.000) I: [pulseaudio] source-output.c: Trying to change sample
> rate
> (  77.968|   0.000) E: [pulseaudio] source.c: Assertion '(default_rate % 4000
> == 0) || (default_rate % 11025 == 0)' failed at pulsecore/source.c:1016,
> function pa_source_update_rate(). Aborting.
> [1]    8720 abort      pulseaudio -vvv --log-time
>
>
> When Pulseaudio restarts it makes a crackling sound for about 5 seconds.
> I have this problem since my update from stable to testing
>

I think this problem was fixed since 5.0 was released. Could you try
5.99 from experimental and check if you still have the problem?


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler