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)...
