Description of problem: Pulseaudio crashes when loopbacks and/or null audio sinks are active. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.1-9.fc17 How reproducible: Always. But can take a while. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use pacmd command to set up a null audio sink and a loopback. 2. Set up so an application (Doesn't matter which) outputs to the null output and set the loopback to loop the null output to the real output. 3. Wait anything from 15 minutes to 2 hours or possibly more. Actual results: After a period of time pulseaudio crashes. Expected results: Pulseaudio doesn't crash. Additional info: Here are two extracts from the system log from two of these crashes pulseaudio[16206]: [pulseaudio] module-loopback.c: Assertion 'pa_thread_mq_get() || !PA_SINK_INPUT_IS_LINKED((u->sink_input)->state)' failed at modules/module-loopback.c:450, function sink_input_process_msg_cb(). Aborting. pulseaudio[1428]: [null-sink] memblock.c: Assertion 'pa_atomic_load(&(b)->_ref) > 0' failed at pulsecore/memblock.c:478, function pa_memblock_get_length(). Aborting.
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