#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) --------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Reporter: tries | Owner: tbb-team Type: defect | Status: needs_information Priority: Medium | Milestone: Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version: Severity: Normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Actual Points: Parent ID: | Points: Reviewer: | Sponsor: --------------------------------------+-----------------------------------
Comment (by tries): One way to reproduce this (existing installation where audio is working): - in the Tor-Browser installation filder (.../Browser/) remove the pulsaudio related files & directories `rm -rf .pulse-cookie .pulse .esd_auth` - start some other application that plays audio (and starts an pulseaudiod instance), e.g. xmms - ensure that audio is played OK - start tor-browser - go to some URL that plays some audio content (e.g. /www.audiocheck.net) - tor-browser tries to launch an pulseaudio instance (which fails as there is already a running instance) and recreates the above removed files. - the above described error is triggered (warnings about "OpenCubeb() failed to init", etc) - from now on, audio will always fail to play. After copying the above files from the real users HOME to .../Browser/ and restarting tor-browser, audio playback is working again. I also tried this with a fresh install: - download tor-browser-linux64-8.0.5_en-US.tar.xz - untar - start tor-browser Results in no audio. Which makes sense and confirms my findings above (as the tar archive contains no pulseaudio config files). So the question actually should be: why did it work at all before? Might be something CentOS / pulseaudio version specific? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29360#comment:3> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online
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