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Bug 732952 - crash in update_card (gvc-mixer-control.c) when using pulseaudio-5.0
crash in update_card (gvc-mixer-control.c) when using pulseaudio-5.0
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: libgnome-volume-control
Classification: Other
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: libgnome-volume-control-maint
libgnome-volume-control-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-07-09 15:38 UTC by Rex Dieter
Modified: 2014-07-10 12:00 UTC
See Also:
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Attachments
quick-n-dirty workaround for crash condition (922 bytes, patch)
2014-07-09 15:38 UTC, Rex Dieter 		none Details | Review

Description Rex Dieter 2014-07-09 15:38:40 UTC 
Created attachment 280284 [details] [review]
quick-n-dirty workaround for crash condition

Seeing this downstream in fedora,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117683

that gvc-mixer-control.c tries to query profile names (for g_debug calls mostly?), and these names sometimes happen to be NULL when using pulseaudio-5.0, so crashes happen.

Attached is a quick-n-dirty workaround to avoid this situation, but probably worthwhile digging deeper to find why the profile names aren't getting set.
Comment 1 Giovanni Campagna 2014-07-09 15:49:26 UTC 
Shouldn't pulseaudio be fixed instead, to provide names that are not NULL?
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2014-07-09 16:02:12 UTC 
Quite possible, I've filed a bug against pulseaudio (pavucontrol) too,
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81116
Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2014-07-10 12:00:40 UTC 
OK, pulseaudio dev onlist agrees with that approach (of fixing pulseaudio), let's close this (for now).