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diff --git a/src/output/alsa_plugin.c b/src/output/alsa_plugin.c
index 9177fabe4..422264f53 100644
--- a/src/output/alsa_plugin.c
+++ b/src/output/alsa_plugin.c
@@ -508,6 +508,14 @@ configure_hw:
g_debug("buffer_size=%u period_size=%u",
(unsigned)alsa_buffer_size, (unsigned)alsa_period_size);
+ if (alsa_period_size == 0)
+ /* this works around a SIGFPE bug that occurred when
+ an ALSA driver indicated period_size==0; this
+ caused a division by zero in alsa_play(). By using
+ the fallback "1", we make sure that this won't
+ happen again. */
+ alsa_period_size = 1;
+
ad->period_frames = alsa_period_size;
ad->period_position = 0;