@Guy Taylor, as a workaround you can use the "pavucontrol" application, available in the repositories as the "pavucontrol" package.
@Seb128, looking from the stack trace, it does not look like PulseAudio's client API is involved in the infinite recursion. I'm marking this as invalid for PulseAudio. Conor might have meant bug 978109 - without that, maybe this infinite recursion bug would not have surfaced. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963457 Title: [soundnua]: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_mutex_lock() Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: When changing a audio input between two sound cards. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.3.92-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic-pae 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Mar 23 20:54:51 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120201.1) ProcCmdline: gnome-control-center sound-nua ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SegvReason: writing unknown VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: gnome-control-center Title: [soundnua]: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_mutex_lock() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/963457/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp