See also https://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-audio-dev at lists.launchpad.net/msg00268.html The warning may be useful for users who carried over the module-loading statement from default configuration files shipped with old PulseAudio versions. Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com> --- src/modules/dbus/module-dbus-protocol.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/modules/dbus/module-dbus-protocol.c b/src/modules/dbus/module-dbus-protocol.c index ab5546f..e5f1221 100644 --- a/src/modules/dbus/module-dbus-protocol.c +++ b/src/modules/dbus/module-dbus-protocol.c @@ -529,6 +529,11 @@ int pa__init(pa_module *m) { pa_assert(m); + pa_log_warn("module-dbus-protocol is currently unsupported, and can sometimes cause PulseAudio crashes."); + pa_log_warn("The most popular use cases for module-dbus-protocol are related to changing " + "equalizer settings and LADSPA plugin parameters at runtime."); + pa_log_warn("If you don't use such functionality, it's possible that you don't actually need this module."); + if (!(ma = pa_modargs_new(m->argument, valid_modargs))) { pa_log("Failed to parse module arguments."); goto fail; -- 2.1.3