[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:  closed                                             
 Milestone:              |   Component:  daemon                                             
Resolution:  worksforme  |    Keywords:  bluetooth, module-bluetooth-discover, blueman, a2dp
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Changes (by foxmajik):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => worksforme


Comment:

 Hmm, it seems the problem was with something other than pulseaudio.

 After recent upgrades to these packages pulseaudio no longer crashes when
 I switch to A2DP:

 bluetooth (1:4.39-0ubuntu2)

 bluez-alsa (1:4.39-0ubuntu2)

 bluez-cups (1:4.39-0ubuntu2)

 bluez-gstreamer (1:4.39-0ubuntu2)

 bluez-utils (1:4.39-0ubuntu2)

 However it's still a little inconvenient that A2DP is not selected by
 default.

 It's still a little kludgey.

 I have to:

 1. Pair the headset.[[BR]]
 2. Tell Bluetooth to connect to the A2DP service.[[BR]]
 3. Stop playing audio and start it again in my application.[[BR]]
 4. Tell Pulseaudio Volume Control to switch my application from my Intel
 onboard codec to the A2DP output on my headset (on the Configuration
 tab).[[BR]]
 5. Switch to the Playback tab and turn up the volume switch for the
 application playing audio (because it defaults to 0 for some reason,
 possibly the application's fault [I am using Audacious]).[[BR]]

 An option to have A2DP be the default output to my bluetooth headset would
 be useful.

 I can move streams between bluetooth and my Intel onboard audio codec
 without Pulseaudio crashing, which is very nice.

 I'm not sure if it'll be helpful but here's the output from the
 upgrade.[[BR]]
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 {{{
 (Reading database ... 187116 files and directories currently installed.)
 Preparing to replace libbluetooth3 4.53-0ubuntu2 (using
 .../libbluetooth3_1%3a4.39-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
 Unpacking replacement libbluetooth3 ...
 Preparing to replace bluez 4.53-0ubuntu2 (using
 .../bluez_1%3a4.39-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
  * Stopping bluetooth
    ...done.
 Unpacking replacement bluez ...
 Preparing to replace bluetooth 4.53-0ubuntu2 (using
 .../bluetooth_1%3a4.39-0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
 Unpacking replacement bluetooth ...
 Preparing to replace bluez-alsa 4.53-0ubuntu2 (using .../bluez-
 alsa_1%3a4.39-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
 Unpacking replacement bluez-alsa ...
 Preparing to replace bluez-cups 4.53-0ubuntu2 (using .../bluez-
 cups_1%3a4.39-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
 Unpacking replacement bluez-cups ...
 Preparing to replace bluez-gstreamer 4.53-0ubuntu2 (using .../bluez-
 gstreamer_1%3a4.39-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
 Unpacking replacement bluez-gstreamer ...
 Preparing to replace bluez-utils 4.53-0ubuntu2 (using .../bluez-
 utils_1%3a4.39-0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
 Unpacking replacement bluez-utils ...
 Processing triggers for man-db ...
 Setting up libbluetooth3 (1:4.39-0ubuntu2) ...

 Setting up bluez (1:4.39-0ubuntu2) ...
 Installing new version of config file /etc/bluetooth/main.conf ...
 Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf
 ...
  * Reloading system message bus config...
    ...done.
  * Reloading kernel event manager...
    ...done.
  * Starting bluetooth
    ...done.

 Setting up bluetooth (1:4.39-0ubuntu2) ...
 Setting up bluez-alsa (1:4.39-0ubuntu2) ...
 Setting up bluez-cups (1:4.39-0ubuntu2) ...
 Setting up bluez-gstreamer (1:4.39-0ubuntu2) ...
 Setting up bluez-utils (1:4.39-0ubuntu2) ...
 Processing triggers for libc6 ...
 ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
 }}}

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