[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 371147 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371147 Lennart says that he's stopped the assert from being called - see http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/595 He says that there is still something "leaking ALSA snd_pcm_t objects". This was reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/371147 and I later lodged a bug against pulseaudio - it's the ALSA plugin that's causing this issue. ** Bug watch added: PulseAudio sound server #595 http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/595 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 371147 firefox: crashes on viideo stream with pulse.c:200: pulse_new: Assertion `p->context' failed. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
I had this problem too with Ubuntu 9.04 x64 and Firefox 3.5, downloaded from mozilla.com, but not with Firefox 3.0.x shipped with Jaunty. Previously mentioned solutions haven't worked for me but I solved the problem by replacing $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so with a symbolic link to /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so. cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins mv libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so.bak ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
I am also experiencing this bug as described in the op. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
There is a function pulse_prepare in the file pcm_pulse.c in ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.18.tar.bz2. I'm not sure which Ubuntu package that corresponds to, but it might be libasound2-plugins or libasound2. Could the bug be in that package, rather than pulseaudio? Some lines from the source. err = pulse_wait_stream_state(pcm->p, pcm->stream, PA_STREAM_READY); if (err < 0) { SNDERR("PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: %s\n", pa_strerror(pa_context_errno(pcm->p->context))); pa_stream_unref(pcm->stream); pcm->stream = NULL; goto finish; } The function pulse_wait_stream_state is defined in pulse.c in the same package. It uses the function pulse_check_connection(), which is defined in the same file, and if that function succeeds, pa_threaded_mainloop_wait() is called, but I don't think that happens. My understanding of C ends there, and i was unable to see where Alsa called pulseaudio. Hope this helps someone. The file shm.c could be a part of the packate tendra, which a free C/C++ compiler built around the TDF/ANDF format which provides strict conformance checks for a range of APIs. Among those currently supported are ANSI and ISO C, POSIX 1 & 2, System V, Unix95, XPG3 and XPG4. It doesn't sound relevant to the bug. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
If you have conflicting system-wide and user Flash plugins, that is not something that Firefox or PulseAudio could help resolve. User plugins are always honoured preferentially. On May 8, 2009 3:40 PM, "Helge Stenström" wrote: It seems to me, that playing flash video (youtube) is handled by $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so. This file is quite old (from June 2007), while the problems began with Ubuntu 9.04. My conclusion is that installation of flashplugin-installer might be a workaround, but not a solution of the root cause. I think I remember some problems related to pulseaudio when I tried out Amarok (music player). I can't confirm right now, because Amarok has no setting of it's own that selects pulseaudio or some other mechanism. But I supports that this problem is related to pulseaudio. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/35... -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
There is a very similar bug report for RedHat at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438277#c8, but it's from October 2008, and it's marked Status: CLOSED NOTABUG. I'm not sure why. ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #438277 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438277 -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
Sorry, I didn't see that this bug was already attached to pulseaudio. I thought it was attached to Firefox. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
It seems to me, that playing flash video (youtube) is handled by $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so. This file is quite old (from June 2007), while the problems began with Ubuntu 9.04. My conclusion is that installation of flashplugin-installer might be a workaround, but not a solution of the root cause. I think I remember some problems related to pulseaudio when I tried out Amarok (music player). I can't confirm right now, because Amarok has no setting of it's own that selects pulseaudio or some other mechanism. But I supports that this problem is related to pulseaudio. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
Related to this bug: Something in Konqueror crashes when I play Youtube videos. After 3 seconds of video, the flash parts of the screen go blank. After a while, there is a window saying A Fatal Error Occurred The application nspluginviewer (nspluginviewer) crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT). Please help us improve the software you use by filing a report at http://bugs.kde.org. Useful details include how to reproduce the error, documents that were loaded, etc This is surely related to the Firefox problem, but I'm not sure how. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
I'm affected by the bug, using Ubuntu 9.04 and Firefox 3.0.10. adobe- flashplugin is not in my repositories. Where is it? I don't have any *flashplugin* package installed (yet), still I can play flash, until Firefox crashes after 2-3 seconds. How does that work? The messages in the terminal from where Firefox is started are similar to those of the original poster. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
I didn't find adobe-flashplugin in my repositories, but just removing the flashplugin-nonfree and then using aptitude to install flashplugin-nonfree again worked for me. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
David's fix works for me. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
I fixed this on my computer by: sudo aptitude remove flashplugin-nonfree sudo aptitude remove flashplugin-installer sudo aptitude install adobe-flashplugin And now I can watch the whale video again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA), and order is restored to the universe. -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
I ran into the same problem/bug. I have no good knowledge about custom kernels and such. I don't suppose there is an easier workaround? -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
guess pulseaudio is better target. ** Package changed: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) => pulseaudio (Ubuntu) -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 356687] Re: Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video
** Package changed: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) => flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) -- Firefox has ALSA/Pulse Audio issues when playing flash video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs