pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

[Ben Moudry]

pulseaudio crashes on login

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.92-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-id', '/dev/snd/controlC2', '/dev/snd/pcmC2D0c', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC3', '/dev/snd/hwC3D0', '/dev/snd/hwC3D1', '/dev/snd/hwC3D2', '/dev/snd/hwC3D3', '/dev/snd/pcmC3D3p', '/dev/snd/pcmC3D7p', '/dev/snd/pcmC3D8p', '/dev/snd/pcmC3D9p', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', '/dev/snd/controlC1', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D0p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf6a00000 irq 48'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC269VB'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,10431a13,00100100'
   Controls : 25
   Simple ctrls : 14
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'Device'/'USB Sound Device at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.4.4, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB0d8c:0102'
   Controls : 14
   Simple ctrls : 6
Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'HD'/'Creative Technology Ltd. VF0610 Live! Cam Socialize HD at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.4.'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB041e:4080'
   Controls : 2
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card2.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 52
   Mono: Capture 51 [98%] [31.00dB] [on]
Card3.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:3 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf4080000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia GPU 11 HDMI/DP'
   Components : 'HDA:10de0011,10de0101,00100100'
   Controls : 24
   Simple ctrls : 4
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Feb 21 08:28:10 2012
DuplicateOf: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933825
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pulseaudio
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/false
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PulseSinks: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list-sinks'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
PulseSources: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list-sources'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/pulse-1.1/modules/module-alsa-card.so
 module_alsa_card_LTX_pa__init () from /usr/lib/pulse-1.1/modules/module-alsa-card.so
 pa_module_load () from /usr/lib/libpulsecore-1.1.so
Title: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-17 (4 days ago)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 02/10/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: G73Sw.205
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: G73Sw
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrG73Sw.205:bd02/10/2011:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnG73Sw:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnG73Sw:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: G73Sw
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

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