[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse segfault when xcb related funcitnos are called.

[Luke Yelavich]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:42:07PM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 17/09/10 09:22 did gyre and gimble:
> > I guess it's likely some resurfacing of something similar to this.
> > 
> > 
> > So I think that's all a red herring.
> 
> Go go gadget contradict-o-tron.
> 
> Ignore the first line, I think those bugs are likely unrelated.
> 
> I wonder if perhaps it's a problem that there are no screens :s
> 
> Perhaps calling:
> 
> xcb_setup_roots_length() first and checking the value to see if it's > 0
> would avoid the problems?
> 
> Actually in looking at this I think I can see how to fix the missing
> functionality in the master version which appears to check additional
> screens of the display. I'm obviously only chekcing the first, with this
> patch (as did 0.9.21) but git master checks additional screens.
> 
> I guess checking for the length is a valid thing to do.
> 
> Are you able to reproduce the bug yourself?

Haven't tried yet actually, since its the unity netbook environment for Ubuntu netbook remix, which I currently don't have installed. I'll try to reproduce, and test those patches you put into the stable queue branch to see if they help.

Thanks

Luke