pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_mutex_free()

[Balaam's Miracle]

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ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.etc.asound.conf:

AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: balaam 12007 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: balaam 12007 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf9afc000 irq 45'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC880'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0880,08600000,00090000'
   Controls : 30
   Simple ctrls : 18
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xfc080000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia GPU 11 HDMI/DP'
   Components : 'HDA:10de0011,10de0101,00100100'
   Controls : 24
   Simple ctrls : 4
Date: Sun Apr 15 15:15:55 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pulseaudio
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
StacktraceTop:
 pa_mutex_free () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpulsecommon-1.1.so
 pa_memimport_free () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpulsecommon-1.1.so
 pa_pstream_unlink () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpulsecommon-1.1.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/pulse-1.1/modules/libprotocol-native.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/pulse-1.1/modules/libprotocol-native.so
Title: pulseaudio crashed with SIGABRT in pa_mutex_free()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-05 (41 days ago)
UserAsoundrc:
 # ALSA library configuration file

 # Include settings that are under the control of asoundconf(1).
 # (To disable these settings, comment out this line.)
 </home/balaam/.asoundrc.asoundconf>
UserGroups: adm admin audio avahi cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse games lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev pulse sambashare scanner users video
dmi.bios.date: 02/22/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: EV91510A.86A.0482.2006.0222.2350
dmi.board.name: D915GAG
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAC77881-303
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway
dmi.chassis.version: TGX
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrEV91510A.86A.0482.2006.0222.2350:bd02/22/2006:svnGateway:pn5200XCTO/QS:pvr4000966:rvnIntelCorporation:rnD915GAG:rvrAAC77881-303:cvnGateway:ct3:cvrTGX:
dmi.product.name: 5200X CTO/QS
dmi.product.version: 4000966
dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 pa_mutex_free (m=0x8cf1638) at pulsecore/mutex-posix.c:81
 pa_memimport_free (i=0x8cdb088) at pulsecore/memblock.c:963
 pa_pstream_unlink (p=0x8cc3bd0) at pulsecore/pstream.c:969
 pa_pstream_unlink (p=0x8cc3bd0) at pulsecore/pstream.c:960
 native_connection_unlink (c=0x8cbf298) at pulsecore/protocol-native.c:1294

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

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We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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