I've had a similar problem with the latest Skype beta and I've heard others
have as well. I would suggest un-installing it and trying the stable
version, which is available through the Mediabuntu repo.

Jesse

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Dick Angus <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm running Kubuntu 9.04 on a brand new i7-920 with an nVidia graphics card
> and Intel, built-in sound. It's a brand new install (yesterday).
>
>
> PulseAudio - 0.9.15
> Skype - 2.1.0.47
> Logitech Pro9000 camera with built-in microphone
>
>
> I just can't get the audio to work. I've followed so many suggestions I
> can't remember what the original setting was. Skype offers only PulseAudio
> as devices in this new version. Video works, notifications work, and sound
> in/out does not. If I try a test call I hear the connecting notification
> sound, then it runs for about 35 seconds and Skype aborts. If run in a
> terminal I get:
>
>
> E: pstream-util.c: Assertion 'p' failed at pulsecore/pstream-util.c:36,
> function pa_pstream_send_tagstruct_with_creds(). Aborting.
>
>
> On my old computer (still Kubuntu 9.04 but an older version of Skype and no
> PulseAudio) it worked great. Amarok and various video formats work well.
>
>
> Any suggestions? - I've tried about 10 or 15 different suggestions from
> various forums.
> --
>
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