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libcanberra package

  1. Bug #275233 (soundmax)
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 275233

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Luke Yelavich (themuso) wrote : Re: [Bug 275233] Re: canberra-gtk-play crashed with SIGSEGV in pa_operation_unref()

This crash is caused by what is known as a race condition, where canberra-gtk-play plays a sound, and pulseaudio is either not ready, or not running. If the sound plays, then pulseaudio is not always able to make use of the audio device, or, you get the crash as reported here.

I have a work-around to attempt to prevent this crash from occurring, so please test and report back by following the below steps:

1. Move /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop out of the way, i.e so it doesn't exist in that directory.
2. Place the attached 70pulseaudio file in /etc/X11/Xsession.d.
3. Place the attached pulse-session file into /usr/bin, and chmod it 755.

Then log in again, and let me know the results.

Thanks.