I had yet another PA crash, this time while trying to mute and unmute sink-inputs: Jun 28 17:06:38 mdsound pulseaudio[3058]: sink-input.c: Assertion 'tchunk.memblock' failed at pulsecore/sink-input.c:556, function pa_sink_input_peek(). Aborting. Basically, I cannot keep PA up and running under Ubuntu 9.04. Moving a sink-input around crashes PA. Muting sink inputs crashes PA. Basically, anything you want to do from the command line has a very real chance of killing PA. I was running an unupdated Ubuntu 9.04 installation. I have now done a full update of all security and recommended updates, and I get the same results. It seems that I'm not the only person getting this type of result (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/332667), and I don't know what to do about this. I know that PA is very sensitive to problems in ALSA, and that maybe these crashes are not PA's direct fault. But I can't seem to find anything that points to anything other than PA... Are there any suggestions on things I could try? I started with Fedora 11, and it's CPU usage was *incredible*: a single stream could not play smoothly on a P4 1.6GHz machine. Not much of a machine, but it couldn't play a single MP3 stream?!? Should I move to Windows? :) Any help, suggestions or comments would be appreciated. Thank you! Timothy J. Massey
