pa_smoother_resume() hits the assertion 'x >= s->pause_time'

[tanuk]

Every now and then Rhythmbox crashes with this message in the console (not the one where pulseaudio runs, but the one in which RB was started):

E: time-smoother.c: Assertion 'x >= s->pause_time' failed at pulsecore/time-smoother.c:423, function pa_smoother_resume(). Aborting.

The crash is easy to reproduce: change tracks in Rhythmbox repeatedly. It shouldn't take very many times until the crash happens.

[tanuk]

This is pulseaudio from SVN, revision 2521.

The assertion is hit not only when changing tracks, but at seemingly random too, i.e. in the middle of playing a movie in Totem, also seeking sometimes causes it.

It's not only Gstreamer based apps, I just crashed xine too. This seems to be so common problem, that you probably were already aware of this...

[tanuk]

Totem backtrace

[tanuk]

I added a backtrace. It's from running Totem and doing a simple seek (pressed the right arrow once). Pulseaudio version is fresh from git master (with svn I could refer to a revision, can I do something equivalent with git?).

[tturner_wrs]

I see this problem on an embedded x86 target, while using splay (helix) or aplay using the ALSA plugin. I do not see this problem using paplay.

[lennart]

Fixed in GIT.