[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #641: Pulseaudio crashes when switching Bluetooth headset from "Telephony" to "High Fidelity" (A2DP)

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#641: Pulseaudio crashes when switching Bluetooth headset from "Telephony" to
"High Fidelity" (A2DP)
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  Reporter:  foxmajik  |       Owner:  lennart                                            
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                                                
 Milestone:            |   Component:  daemon                                             
Resolution:            |    Keywords:  bluetooth, module-bluetooth-discover, blueman, a2dp
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Comment(by foxmajik):

 > And there is no way to figure out if PA was started with & from the
 shell or not. So I see no way how we could print a message like that.

 > Also, a distribution should run PA automatically via an xdg autostart
 file, which is what we do upstream. There should not be the need to run it
 manually at all.

 PA is automatigically started during login but it crashes when I attempt
 to use A2DP functionality.  This creates the need to run it manually.
 Restarting my operating system or even my window manager during the
 process of troubleshooting is not practical.

 > What you wrote above suggested you where using something called
 "blueman-manager".

 Blueman-manager is a GTK frontend to gnome-bluetooth.  I apologize for the
 confusion.

 The version of gnome-bluetooth I have may not be the latest -- I am using
 the version provided by Canonical for version 9.04 of Ubuntu in the
 default OS repository.

 However, the problem I am experiencing is not with finding or pairing the
 device.  Nor is the problem related to the loading of modules nor to the
 GTK frontend application I use for managing bluetooth devices.  I have all
 of those sorted on my own by reading documentation and the experiences of
 other users.

 The problem is that the output goes to the telephony function of the
 bluetooth device rather than the high-fidelity A2DP function by default.
 When I attempt to switch to high fidelity output using the PA Manager
 application provided with PA, PA crashes.

 I am using the version of PA provided on the PA launchpad as of the time
 this bug report was written, not the version that comes with my OS
 distribution.  I installed this version by adding the Launchpad debs to my
 sources.list and forcing an upgrade.

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