Hello. I am still trying to valgrind pulseaudio. The previous attempt yielded nothing about the bug that I was trying to debug, but found a Bluetooth issue. This time, I thought that maybe some memory pool or flist was causing valgrind to mistakenly consider the samples to be properly initialized. And found PULSE_MEMPOOL_DISABLE as a way to disable this (potentially valgrind-unfriendly) pool. Thus: PULSE_MEMPOOL_DISABLE=1 valgrind --trace-children=yes --db-attach=yes ./src/pulseaudio In the other terminal, I entered this: pactl load-module module-null-sink Result: E: [memcheck-amd64-] memblock.c: Assertion 'b' failed at pulsecore/memblock.c:486, function pa_memblock_acquire(). Aborting. (gdb) bt full #0 0x000000000855ce77 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x000000000855e27a in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0x0000000005d67fbb in pa_memblock_acquire (b=<optimized out>) at pulsecore/memblock.c:486 b = 0x0 #3 0x0000000005d74b1c in pa_srbchannel_new (m=0xa0c05e8, p=0xa0d1ec0) at pulsecore/srbchannel.c:234 capacity = <optimized out> readfd = <optimized out> srh = <optimized out> sr = 0x1c6fb1d0 __func__ = "pa_srbchannel_new" #4 0x0000000018bb016d in setup_srbchannel (c=0x1c6f5a10) at pulsecore/protocol-native.c:2615 srb = <optimized out> mc = {memblock = 0x3e8000003f7, index = 97918596, length = 477068544} fdlist = {1, 15} srbt = {readfd = 477068032, writefd = 0, memblock = 0x5103647 <pa_xmalloc+23>} t = <optimized out> <snip the rest> I have tried to apply the attached "obvious" patch, but instead got this: ==23564== Syscall param socketcall.sendto(msg) points to uninitialised byte(s) ==23564== at 0x7C0F6BB: send (in /lib64/libpthread-2.20.so) ==23564== by 0x5D57351: pa_write (core-util.c:445) ==23564== by 0x5D61238: pa_iochannel_write (iochannel.c:226) ==23564== by 0x5D72EA3: do_write (pstream.c:653) ==23564== by 0x5D73BB4: do_pstream_read_write (pstream.c:201) ==23564== by 0x50EF143: dispatch_pollfds (mainloop.c:657) ==23564== by 0x50EF143: pa_mainloop_dispatch (mainloop.c:900) ==23564== by 0x50EF519: pa_mainloop_iterate (mainloop.c:931) ==23564== by 0x50EF5BF: pa_mainloop_run (mainloop.c:946) ==23564== by 0x406DB5: main (main.c:1136) ==23564== Address 0x1c6c898c is 108 bytes inside a block of size 65,536 alloc'd ==23564== at 0x4C28F40: malloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==23564== by 0x5103646: pa_xmalloc (xmalloc.c:65) ==23564== by 0x5D68F8E: memblock_new_appended (memblock.c:238) ==23564== by 0x5D68F8E: pa_memblock_new (memblock.c:221) ==23564== by 0x5D74B0F: pa_srbchannel_new (srbchannel.c:233) ==23564== by 0x18BB016C: setup_srbchannel (protocol-native.c:2615) ==23564== by 0x18BB016C: command_auth (protocol-native.c:2783) ==23564== by 0x5D6ED6C: pa_pdispatch_run (pdispatch.c:343) ==23564== by 0x18BB2C7F: pstream_packet_callback (protocol-native.c:4898) ==23564== by 0x5D7165A: do_read (pstream.c:882) ==23564== by 0x5D73C3C: do_pstream_read_write (pstream.c:195) ==23564== by 0x50EF143: dispatch_pollfds (mainloop.c:657) ==23564== by 0x50EF143: pa_mainloop_dispatch (mainloop.c:900) ==23564== by 0x50EF519: pa_mainloop_iterate (mainloop.c:931) ==23564== by 0x50EF5BF: pa_mainloop_run (mainloop.c:946) ...and "Connection failure: Protocol error" on the pactl side. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0001-srbchannel-Don-t-fail-assertion-with-PULSE_MEMPOOL_D.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 838 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20141204/03311bd3/attachment.bin>