Bug 439910

Summary: Ekiga crashes with ALSA
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Laurent Aguerreche <laurent.aguerreche+redhat>
Component: ekigaAssignee: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 8CC: pbrobinson, sjensen
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Description Laurent Aguerreche 2008-03-31 22:46:07 UTC
Description of problem:
Ekiga crashes when I test a microphone.

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open configuration druid
2. Go to page "Audio devices - (7/10)"
3. Click on "Test settings"
4. You would see an assertion like this one :
ekiga: pcm_params.c:2351: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.

Actual results:
A crash (an assertion).

Additional info:
This crash seems to be related to ALSA, see :
http://groups.google.com/group/gsb-users/browse_thread/thread/83d99e92079106da
http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/23

Comment 1 Stefan Jensen 2008-07-21 12:58:19 UTC
It seems i deal with the same issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451572

Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2008-11-14 11:26:56 UTC
Is this still an issue? Have you upgraded to F-9 in the meantime? If so is it an issue there?

Comment 3 Peter Robinson 2008-11-14 11:27:41 UTC
*** Bug 451572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Laurent Aguerreche 2008-11-14 22:51:00 UTC
I updated to Fedora 9 (a 64 bits now...) and Ekiga does not crash anymore but gets frozen... A pop-up is displayed when I click on "Test settings" to ask me to talk for testing sound, sound seems to work, then Ekiga becomes frozzen when I click on the "OK" button.

I ran ekiga with debug at level 6 and saw the following error after I pressed the "Test settings" button but just before I heard sound:

*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream.
Cannot set parameters Input/output error
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream.
Cannot set parameters Input/output error

Comment 5 Peter Robinson 2008-11-14 23:07:32 UTC
Yes, that looks the same as bug 466231 which I've seen with ekiga, rhythmbox, pidgin so its a pulseaudio issue rather than ekiga issue. With luck F-10 should be an improvement in that regard.

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Comment 7 Peter Robinson 2009-01-06 04:59:46 UTC
Closing this bug as its against Fedora 8 which is now EOL. If you still have this issue please upgrade to Fedora 9 or Fedora 10, retest and re-open a new bug report if it still persists.