Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:45:12PM -0500, Jim Duda wrote: >> /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio results in this error: >> >> pulseaudio: pulsecore/mutex-posix.c:98: pa_mutex_unlock: Assertion `pthread_mutex_unlock(&m->mutex) == 0' failed. >> >> version 0.9.6, installed via yum works fine. >> >> What could I be missing? > > This is the same assertion that was hit in Debian when it > had a broken version of libltdl3-dev (1.5.22). I believe > this was supposed to be entirely Debian specific, but make > sure you have at least version 1.5.24 of libltdl3-dev > anyway. (F7 might not have a package named like that, > though. libltdl is part of libtool.) FWIW, pa 0.9.8 needs libltdl > 1.5.22 (or at least != 1.5.22). Other distros had this too (at least we had it also on Mandriva and I'm sure I've seen others ask about this too). Col