It looks like a bug in the lower layers to me, but I'm okay with disabling priority inheritance for armel as a workaround. But please confirm that this actually resolves your problem.
Lowering severity as it does not seem to affect many machines? A transformer and something running kernel 2.6.36...? ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Critical => Medium ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/932096 Title: [armel] Pulseaudio crashes other program using sound: Assertion 'pthread_mutex_unlock(&m->mutex) == 0' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/932096/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs