[pulseaudio-discuss] anyone else seeing this failure?

[Nix]

On 26 Sep 2008, nix at esperi.org.uk told this:

> Freshly-compiled PA 0.9.12:
>
> nix at hades 167 /home/nix% start-pulseaudio-x11
> I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
> I: caps.c: Dropping root priviliges.
> I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
> E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.
> *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/pulseaudio: free(): invalid pointer: 0x080593e0 ***
> /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11: line 22: 20450 Aborted                 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start "$@"
>
> It's hard to debug it. Even as root I get garbage backtraces.

... and a crashing gdb, *sigh*.

It boils down to the same old

alsa-util.c: PCM device plug:front:0 refused our hw parameters: Inappropriate ioctl for device

due to a failure in snd_pcm_hw_params().

Time to instrument alsa-lib, I've had enough of OSS even if my hardware
*is* too old to use glitch-free (no hrtimers on this six-year-old
system)...