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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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   title="NEW --- - pulseaudio[19858]: [alsa-sink] memblock.c: Assertion 'pa_atomic_load(&(b)->_ref) > 0' failed at pulsecore/memblock.c:590, function pa_memblock_unref(). Aborting."
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59115">59115</a>
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>lennart@poettering.net
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>pulseaudio[19858]: [alsa-sink] memblock.c: Assertion 'pa_atomic_load(&(b)->_ref) > 0' failed at pulsecore/memblock.c:590, function pa_memblock_unref(). Aborting.
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          <th>QA Contact</th>
          <td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>nuonguy@yahoo.com
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Other
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>core
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>PulseAudio
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        <pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=72663" name="attach_72663" title="pulseaudio extracted from /var/log/messages for the time that pulseaudio ran with log-level=4">attachment 72663</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=72663&action=edit" title="pulseaudio extracted from /var/log/messages for the time that pulseaudio ran with log-level=4">[details]</a></span>
pulseaudio extracted from /var/log/messages for the time that pulseaudio ran
with log-level=4

About once a day pulseaudio crashes with that message.  The machine is usually
idle when this happens except for skype.

$ rpm -qa | grep -i pulse
wine-pulseaudio-1.5.13-1.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-gconf-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-1.1-9.fc17.i686
wine-pulseaudio-1.5.13-1.fc17.i686
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.26-1.fc17.x86_64
kde-settings-pulseaudio-4.8-19.fc17.noarch
gvncpulse-0.5.1-4.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64


Steps to Reproduce: 
Install skype leave it running
use a USB headset (Logitch G35) as well as speakers on-board sound
run xfce4-mixer and pavucontrol, leave them running

Actual results:
pulseaudio[19858]: [alsa-sink] memblock.c: Assertion
'pa_atomic_load(&(b)->_ref) > 0' failed at pulsecore/memblock.c:590, function
pa_memblock_unref(). Aborting.

$ cat ~/.pulse/daemon.conf
log-level = 4
; default-fragment-size-msec = 1
; default-sample-rate = 48000

; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0</pre>
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