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Bug 163728 - Some wav sounds cause crash on receipt of new mail
Some wav sounds cause crash on receipt of new mail
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 305464
Product: esound
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: High critical
: ---
Assigned To: Esound Maintainers
Esound Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-11 20:32 UTC by Roger
Modified: 2005-05-25 19:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
untie.wav has a sample rate of 22,050 Hz (186.45 KB, audio/x-wav)
2005-01-18 19:50 UTC, Roger 		Details
untie1.wav has a sample rate of 44,100 Hz (430.71 KB, audio/x-wav)
2005-01-18 19:55 UTC, Roger 		Details

Description Roger 2005-01-11 20:32:23 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Set New Mail Notification to play a wav file having a sample rate of 
44,100 Hz. 
2. Receive new mail and verify that wav file plays correctly. 
3. Set New Mail Notification to play a wav file having a sample rate of 
22,050 Hz. 
4. Receive new mail and Evolution will crash. 

Stack trace:
Backtrace was generated from '/usr//bin/evolution' 
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... 
(no debugging symbols found)...0x407b9686 in waitpid () 
   from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0

+ Trace 54397

  • #0 waitpid
    from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
  • #1 libgnomeui_module_info_get
  • #2 __libc_sigaction
    from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
  • #3 raise
    from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
  • #4 raise
    from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
  • #5 abort
    from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 

Other information:
Evolution new mail notification sound works with wav files having a 
sample rate of 44,100 Hz.  If a wav file with a different sample rate is 
used, eg 22,050 Hz, then Evolution crashes when receiving POP3 email. 
Other sample rates may either cause a crash or are just ignored and do 
not sound. 
 
Expected Results: 
Evolution should correctly play a wav file with any sample rate. 
 
How often does this happen? 
Every time. 
 
Additional Information: 
Problem verified on two different PCs, one running Mandrake 9.2 and one 
running Mandrake 10.0 Official. 
Problem verified on Gnome 2.4 and KDE 3.1 
 
Workaround is to change wav file sample rate to 44,100 Hz with an 
application such as Audacity. 
The new wav file then plays correctly in Evolution. 
 
This bug originally reported to Ximian Bugzilla under number 71108 but they 
have advised that it should be reassigned to ESD.
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2005-01-11 20:39:13 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. However, Evolution does not yet track its bugs in the
GNOME bugzilla. Please report the bug to http://bugzilla.ximian.com
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2005-01-11 20:40:06 UTC 
Oops, crap.  I didn't see your last paragraph until after I hit the commit
button.  Sorry.
Comment 3 David Schleef 2005-01-18 08:39:06 UTC 
Could you attach the files?
Comment 4 Roger 2005-01-18 19:50:52 UTC 
Created attachment 36207 [details]
untie.wav has a sample rate of 22,050 Hz

untie.wav causes Evolution to crash when used to notify new mail.
Comment 5 Roger 2005-01-18 19:55:08 UTC 
Created attachment 36208 [details]
untie1.wav has a sample rate of 44,100 Hz

untie1.wav is based on untie.wav but has been converted to the new sample rate
of 44,100 Hz.  This file works correctly with Evolution and sounds to notify
new mail.
Comment 6 Jeffrey Stedfast 2005-05-25 19:06:54 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 305464 ***
Comment 7 Jeffrey Stedfast 2005-05-25 19:07:31 UTC 
fwiw, other 22050 wav files I downloaded off the net don't cause the crash, only
ones that seem to are from OOo

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 305464 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 305464 ***