Comment 1 for bug 153196

Confirmed. Same thing happens here.

Linux lappulf 2.6.24-3-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 3 22:50:33 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

pulseaudio 0.9.8

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

$ ultrastarng
Using /usr/share/games/ultrastar-ng//songs as default songs directory
ultrastarng: pcm_params.c:2351: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 18
read(18, "\xc1\x0b\xb7\xc9", 4) = 4
close(18) = 0
open("/dev/shm/pulse-shm-3384216513", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOFOLLOW|0x80000, 0400) = 18
ftruncate(18, 2097192) = 0
mmap(NULL, 2097192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 18, 0) = 0x2aaaaaeaf000
close(18) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="lappulf", ...}) = 0
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 18
fcntl(18, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl(18, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
setsockopt(18, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [6], 4) = 0
fcntl(18, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fcntl(18, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
connect(18, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/pulse-oystein/native"}, 110) = 0
sendto(17, "W", 1, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket)
write(17, "W", 1) = 1
write(17, "W", 1) = 1
futex(0x847770, 0x7 /* FUTEX_??? */, 47103531211176) = 0
futex(0x8477a4, 0x80 /* FUTEX_??? */, 1) = 0
futex(0x847770, 0x7 /* FUTEX_??? */, 47103531211176) = 0
write(2, "ultrastarng: pcm_params.c:2351: "..., 82ultrastarng: pcm_params.c:2351: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.

ultrastarng: pcm_params.c:2351: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 0x2b33d623b3a0 (LWP 2555)]
0x00002b33d2a6d095 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00002b33d2a6d095 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00002b33d2a6eaf0 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x00002b33d2a663df in __assert_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3 0x00002b33d0349bf5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
#4 0x00002b33d0345013 in snd_pcm_hw_params () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
#5 0x0000000000405ef1 in ?? ()
#6 0x00000000004045dd in ?? ()
#7 0x00002b33d2a591c4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#8 0x0000000000404009 in ?? ()
#9 0x00007fffdb4d6ab8 in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)