[alsa-devel] PulseAudio and softvol

[Arun Raghavan]

On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 12:26 +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> Date 15.5.2013 11:55, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> > Hello,
> > A number of users have intermittently(?) been hitting a crash in
> > alsa-lib 1.0.27 [1, 2] related to the softvol plugin. I'm not able to
> > reproduce this reliably, so can't find an easy way to debug/fix.
> 
> The problem is that the offsets are not in sync in this case [1]:
> 
> src_offset = 38560
> dst_offset = 38568
> frames = 16374
> 
> Could you reproduce this bug in any way? At least snd_pcm_dump() before
> the failing snd_pcm_mmap_commit() call might help to determine what was
> the status before the assert() was entered.

Unfortunately, after the time I got the backtrace, I haven't been able
to reproduce the problem.

-- Arun