gnome-control-center crashes for audio controls

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I have absolutely the same problem updating from 12.10 to 13.04 yesterday. After the update when I try to access the System Settings -> Sound the windows crashes and dmesg gives:

kernel: [ 101.174326] gnome-control-c[2351]: segfault at 7fff94739f28 ip 00007f79123788ca sp 00007fff94739f30 error 6 in libc-2.17.so[7f791232f000+1be000]

Although, it won't open the System Settings -> Sound playback in every applications is normal and pavucontrol also works. Anyway I can't change the default device now. With 12.10 there were no problems.

My devices are:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC272 Analog [ALC272 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: USB [E-MU 0202 | USB], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I've also tried
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-control-center*

then rebooted but nothing changed.

Same problem here. Get sudden hard shutdowns with following error:

Jul 28 17:41:16 A85W kernel: [ 60.255913] gnome-control-c[2375]: segfault at 7fff35b2be50 ip 00007f6ada0c986b sp 00007fff35b2bd40 error 6 in libc-2.17.so[7f6ada080000+1be000]
Jul 28 17:41:31 A85W kernel: [ 75.566518] gnome-control-c[2438]: segfault at 7fff7f88cee0 ip 00007f73aab8986b sp 00007fff7f88cdd0 error 6 in libc-2.17.so[7f73aab40000+1be000]
Jul 28 17:41:43 A85W kernel: [ 86.584956] gnome-control-c[2448]: segfault at 7fffeb986e10 ip 00007f63a1a4186b sp 00007fffeb986d00 error 6 in libc-2.17.so[7f63a19f8000+1be000]
Jul 28 17:42:05 A85W kernel: [ 109.215532] gnome-control-c[2555]: segfault at 7fff7697aff0 ip 00007fc147db0ea6 sp 00007fff7697afc0 error 6 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.3600.0[7fc147d88000+4d000]
Jul 28 17:47:23 A85W kernel: [ 426.038799] gnome-control-c[7109]: segfault at 7fffa230ffb8 ip 00007fdaf32598ca sp 00007fffa230ffc0 error 6 in libc-2.17.so[7fdaf3210000+1be000]
Jul 28 17:51:11 A85W kernel: [ 654.330177] gnome-control-c[7254]: segfault at 7fff69930ff0 ip 00007fccd5eb986b sp 00007fff69930ee0 error 6 in libc-2.17.so[7fccd5e70000+1be000]

It also crashes the same way with following output:

Jul 27 15:37:22 A85W kernel: [ 72.793409] ubuntu-geoip-pr[2554]: segfault at fffffffffffffff7 ip 00007facb651b9cc sp 00007fffbdf277a8 error 5 in libc-2.17.so[7facb6498000+1be000]

# aplay -l

Karte 0: M2496 [M Audio Audiophile 24/96], Gerät 0: ICE1712 multi [ICE1712 multi]
  Sub-Geräte: 0/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0

Ubuntu 13.04 is very unstable here, i don't have a clue how to solve this...

Addition:

Running gnome-control-center in the terminal and selecting audio settings gives a crash with following error:

"(gnome-control-center:4796): sound-cc-panel-WARNING **: active_input_update - couldn't find a stream from the supposed active input

(gnome-control-center:4796): sound-cc-panel-WARNING **: active_output_update - couldn't find a stream from the supposed active output

Segmentation fault"

# uname -r
3.8.13-custom

Pavucontrol via terminal is working fine btw.

I have the same problem here. Ubuntu 13.04 x86.

When attaching a Alesis os|2 Soundcard (lsusb id 13b2:0008) and open the volume control it crashes when I try to change the soundcard (i.e. using its input).

The window gets closed, and dmesg has a error message as follows:

gome-control-c[15264]: segfault at bf651f64 ip b6b95989 sp bf651f60 error 6 in libc-2.17.so