Description of problem: 
esd segfaults immediately on startup 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
esound-0.2.32-2 
 
How reproducible: 
always 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1. allow coredumps in /etc/profile 
2. start esound 
3. watch it segfault 
   
Actual results: 
>gdb esd 
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host 
libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". 
 
(gdb) r 
Starting program: /usr/bin/esd 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] 
[New Thread -1207146080 (LWP 20558)] 
 
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 
[Switching to Thread -1207146080 (LWP 20558)] 
0x05c6071a in snd_pcm_hw_param_set_near () from 
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2 
(gdb) bt 
#0  0x05c6071a in snd_pcm_hw_param_set_near () from 
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2 
#1  0x05c58e8d in snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near () 
   from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 
#2  0xbff50e70 in ?? () 
#3  0x0000000b in ?? () 
#4  0x0000ac44 in ?? () 
(gdb)