I have made a tiny progress on this (I think). The last read before the crash seems to be done by liboil, then there is SIGILL that seems to meen that the application performs an illegal instruction. This[1] bug report, seems to hint that this is a problem in liboil, that it makes incorrect assumptions about the Intel chips. I do not know how to verify for sure that this is the reason for this crash (without running in gdb, which for some reason does not work for me), but if it is the case then there is no bug in pulseaudio in this case. Not that I know how to work it around... Andrzej [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410859
