[pulseaudio-discuss] 0.9.8 seg fault

[Jim Duda]

Lennart,

I followed the instructions from the fedora StackTraces wiki for 
installing all the debugging library information.

These libraries were installed:
   Installing: glibc-debuginfo-common
   Installing: glibc-debuginfo
   Installing: bash-debuginfo
   Installing: pulseaudio-module-lirc
   Installing: pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
   Installing: PolicyKit-debuginfo
   Installing: dbus-debuginfo
   Installing: glib2-debuginfo
   Installing: alsa-lib-debuginfo
   Installing: libsamplerate-debuginfo
   Installing: pulseaudio-debuginfo
   Installing: libsndfile-debuginfo
   Installing: tcp_wrappers-debuginfo
   Installing: liboil-debuginfo
   Installing: libtool-debuginfo
   Installing: libcap-debuginfo
   Installing: hal-debuginfo

Running gdb the first time resulted in another failure, with a request 
to install these 3 packages, which I did.

   Installing: expat-debuginfo
   Installing: libsepol-debuginfo
   Installing: libselinux-debuginfo

This is what happens now:

linux# gdb /usr/bin/pulseaudio
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run --system --log-target=syslog
Starting program: /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --log-target=syslog
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New process 15257]
Executing new program: /usr/bin/pulseaudio
warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error
warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error
[New process 15257]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Segmentation fault

I am running my own compiled kernel, could that be an issue?

I've read the fedora wiki a couple of times and tried to google for a 
solution, but I haven't found one.  Do you understand what is going on?

Jim


Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 28.03.08 20:33, Jim Duda (jim at duda.tzo.com) wrote:
> 
>> After upgrading from 0.9.8 from 0.9.6, pulse is segfaulting when playing 
>> simple wav files.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> Mar 28 20:30:18 linux kernel: pulseaudio[2847]: segfault at b4dd79f0 eip 
>> b4dd79f0 esp bfe949fc error 4
>>
>> I have to manually restart.
>>
>> I'm using --system mode.
> 
> Please provide a back trace.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
> 
> Lennart
>