pavucontrol causes entire Gnome session to hang

[Christoffer Cronström]

I recently installed pavucontrol, and everytime I run it the entire Gnome session hangs after a few seconds. The mouse pointer will still move, but the window manager and all windows are frozen. System still runs though, as I can access the other virtual terminals just fine. Nothing gets printed to /var/log/syslog when this happens.

I'm tagging this as a problem in gnome-session, but I realise it may well be in pulseaudio or the audio driver.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: pavucontrol 1.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-14.21-generic 3.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 19 19:54:26 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pavucontrol
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-20 (60 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: pavucontrol
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Christoffer, sorry that no-one had time to resolve this bug report before the Ubuntu version expired. But a lot changes between releases, so it's possible that the bug has been fixed anyway. If you still experience the problem with a current version (e.g. 14.04 or 15.04), please reopen the report.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-session (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]