Sorry to reply to this old post.
Problem is not fixed for me (jaunty 9.04) and the Dell page link is broken.
Does someone has a valid link (or explanation ?) to give me.
That'd be great
thanks
Marc
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pavucontrol crashed with SIGSEGV in MainWindow::updateServer at
pavucontrol.cc:848
https://b
This bug was fixed in the package pavucontrol - 0.9.7-1ubuntu2
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pavucontrol (0.9.7-1ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low
* 0002-Handle-noninitialised-data.patch: Backport from upstream
01e4826b653065268e7a4b8d57e528836e167a23, makes pavucontrol
more robust against LP: #286273.
Good work! I just changed "LP 286273" to "LP: 286273". :-)
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pavucontrol crashed with SIGSEGV in MainWindow::updateServer at
pavucontrol.cc:848
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286273
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** Changed in: pavucontrol (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
** Changed in: pavucontrol (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
** Attachment added: "pavucontrol_0.9.7-1ubuntu2.debdiff"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24657587/pavucontrol_0.9.7-1ubuntu2.debdif
The problem was a known problem on Dell Ubuntu systems upgrading kernels
- see http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_8.04#Known_Issues
After rebooting with the kernel modules fixed up, the volume control
program no longer crashes.
I'm not sure if you still want to debug this... it seemed to