Bug 382891

Summary:	pcm_params.c:2351: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Naveed Hasan <naveed>
Component:	pulseaudio	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	8	CC:	igeorgex, mjw, pierre-bugzilla, tromey
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OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2601
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Description Naveed Hasan 2007-11-14 17:15:00 UTC

Various applications using sound always fail in Fedora 8. Appears to be an
upstream ALSA bug.

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2601
http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/23

I encountered it when trying to start ustunts (from the
ultimatestunts-0.7.3-4.fc8.x86_64 package.)

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2007-12-07 11:16:56 UTC

aha, okay. moved to pulseaudio.

Comment 2 Naveed Hasan 2007-12-14 08:30:41 UTC

The comments at the two links I originally posted seemed to imply the bug is
somewhere in alsa-lib.

In any case, that these applications fail to start / crash due to the new alsa /
pulseaudio setup in Fedora 8 is very unfortunate.

Comment 3 JM 2008-01-21 18:21:57 UTC

I have the same problem with xemacs (when I use sound in the xemacs config),
xemacs fails then with:

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

My workaround for the moment is to remove 'alsa-plugins-pulseaudio', I found
this workaround here
http://support.gizmoproject.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=330

Comment 4 Mark Wielaard 2008-01-23 20:07:43 UTC

This also causes ekiga to crash and burn unless you set "Preferences -> Sound
Events -> Alternative Output Device" to anything NOT the "Default".

Comment 5 Lennart Poettering 2008-03-28 20:14:04 UTC

This is most likely fixed by the newest alsa-plugins-pulseaudio. Could you
please try?

Comment 6 Naveed Hasan 2008-03-29 01:15:18 UTC

No such luck - it's still broken with the same error message. Does
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.15-3.fc8.1 include this patch
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/file_download.php?file_id=2513&type=bug
 as described on https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2601 or
would change need to go into an updated alsa-lib?

Comment 7 Naveed Hasan 2008-06-12 04:35:56 UTC

It looks like this bug has been fixed in Fedora 9. I currently have
alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc9 and alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc9 installed and ustunts now starts
fine.