pulseaudio crashed with SIGSEGV in realloc()

[Ryan]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Most likely dupe of 410326, but with newer pulseaudio version, etc - so maybe the output is helpful?

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

$ apt-cache policy pulseaudio
pulseaudio:
  Installed: 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ dpkg-query -l |grep '^i.*pulse'
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.15-2ubuntu1 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii libcanberra-pulse 0.15-0ubuntu3 a simple abstract interface for playing even
ii libpulse-browse0 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 PulseAudio client libraries (zeroconf suppor
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii libpulse0 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 PulseAudio client libraries
ii pulseaudio 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-gconf 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 GConf module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-udev 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 udev device detection module for PulseAudio
ii pulseaudio-module-x11 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-utils 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ryan 21049 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xefffc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9200'
   Components : 'HDA:83847690,102801c2,00102201 HDA:14f12bfa,14f100c3,00090000'
   Controls : 13
   Simple ctrls : 8
Date: Wed Aug 26 11:19:45 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pulseaudio
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.16~test6-3-g57e1-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-7.27-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x61d203: cmp 0xc(%eax),%esi
 PC (0x0061d203) ok
 source "0xc(%eax)" (0x0000000c) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%esi" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 realloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 pa_xrealloc () from /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0
Title: pulseaudio crashed with SIGSEGV in realloc()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-7-generic i686
UserAsoundrc:
 pcm.skype pcm.default
 ctl.skype ctl.default
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev src vboxusers video
mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.daemon.conf: 2009-08-20T21:01:05

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:malloc_consolidate (av=<value optimized out>)
_int_malloc (av=<value optimized out>,
_int_realloc (av=<value optimized out>, oldp=0x9665bc0,
*__GI___libc_realloc (oldmem=0x9665bc8, bytes=555)
pa_xrealloc (ptr=0x9665bc8, size=555) at pulse/xmalloc.c:87

[kronictokr (pstone78)]

try totally getting rid of alsa, i did with pulse, and its fixed a lot of problems i was having in general. the 2 programs dont seem to get along in karmic