I can confirm this bug. I have changed the value in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to: default-sample-channels = 6 I am playing stereo flac files with xmms2. When I pause the playback, pulseaudio crashes after a few seconds. This behavior is reproducible.
$ pulseaudio ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL surround51:1 ALSA lib setup.c:96:(snd_sctl_install) Cannot lock ctl elem W: alsa-util.c: Device hw:1 doesn't support 6 channels, changed to 2. Soft CPU time limit exhausted, terminating. $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI HDA ATI HDMI at 0xe0310000 irq 17 1 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 4 [SB0610] Audigy 4 [SB0610] (rev.0, serial:0x10211102) at 0x1000, irq 21 ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- PulseAudio fails when Gstreamer is paused https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221038 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs