Dimi Paun wrote: 
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:14 +0900, Mike McCormack wrote:
  
The best way to fix it is probably to rearrange the code so that the 
Audio tab shows, then there's a [Detect] button that the user can
click to run the autodetect code that might crash.  At least then the
user can set their Wine Audio settings manually.
    

There is a patch in Bugzilla (posted Sun) that simply catches the
exception and avoids the crash that way. I think it's probably
good enough for the arts business, it's a dead-end anyway.
aRts in and of itself is a buggy hack, KDE is droipping it in the 4.0 release, Skype crashes if you use artsdsp with it and play sound, arts is also known to just segfault for no reason whatsoever. Best suggestion is to drop support for aRts entirely, it won't be around much longer.