Applications segfaults when accessing audio
Bug #601000 reported by
John Lik
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Most applications with some kind audio component segfault when started as a normal user, works ok when launched with sudo.
Sound does works.
Example :
$ alsamixer
Segmentation fault
$ dmesg | tail -1
[85176.329383] alsamixer[1311]: segfault at 9f9eebd8 ip 9feedaf7 sp bfc5dfb4 error 4 in libpthread-
But
$ sudo alsamixer
Works ok
Same with the volume control applet
User is in the audio group :
$ id
uid=1000(demo) gid=1000(demo) groups=
Info :
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
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