[arch-general] Knotify4 segmentation fault

[Madhurya Kakati]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
> What are the contents of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc?
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am using kde 4.4.4. whenever i get any notifications knotify4 throws
>> up error stating seg fault. this is very annoying cause sometime while
>> chatting if chat window is unfocused, if someone replies, i get
>> notification and immediately knotify throws error.
>>
>> Application: KNotify (knotify4), signal: Segmentation fault
>> [KCrash Handler]
>> #5  0x00007f2fed7912f0 in snd_pcm_extplug_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
>> #6  0x00007f2fed750d65 in snd_pcm_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
>> #7  0x00007f2fed76f135 in snd_pcm_plug_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
>> #8  0x00007f2fed750d65 in snd_pcm_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2
>> #9  0x00007f2febbd0f98 in gst_alsasink_close () from
>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstalsa.so
>> #10 0x00007f2fec30eb86 in gst_audioringbuffer_close_device () from
>> /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0
>> #11 0x00007f2fec2ff143 in gst_ring_buffer_close_device () from
>> /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0
>> #12 0x00007f2fec30a396 in gst_base_audio_sink_change_state () from
>> /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0
>> #13 0x00007f2fecbb28fc in gst_element_change_state () from
>> /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
>> #14 0x00007f2fecbb32e2 in gst_element_set_state_func () from
>> /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0
>> #15 0x00007f2fed2efa2a in
>> Phonon::Gstreamer::AudioOutput::setOutputDevice(Phonon::ObjectDescription<(Phonon::ObjectDescriptionType)0>
>> const&) ()
>>   from /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_gstreamer.so
>> #16 0x00007f2ff7c2185c in
>> Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::setupBackendObject() () from
>> /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4
>> #17 0x00007f2ff7c21e63 in
>> Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::createBackendObject() () from
>> /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4
>> #18 0x00007f2ff7c1f0cc in
>> Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::init(Phonon::Category) () from
>> /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4
>> #19 0x000000000040c871 in _start ()
>>
>

cat shows this error cat: /etc/asound.conf: No such file or directory.

The output of cat ~/.asoundrc is

ctl.equal {
 type equal;
}

pcm.plugequal {
  type equal;
  # Modify the line below if you don't
  # want to use sound card 0.
  #slave.pcm "plughw:0,0";
  #by default we want to play from more sources at time:
  slave.pcm "plug:dmix";
}

#pcm.equal {
  # Or if you want the equalizer to be your
  # default soundcard uncomment the following
  # line and comment the above line.
pcm.!default {
  type plug;
  slave.pcm plugequal;
}