Bug 429220
| Summary: | pulseaudio causes random browser crashes | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Linus Torvalds <torvalds> |
| Component: | pulseaudio | Assignee: | Lennart Poettering <lpoetter> |
| Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8 | CC: | farrellj, kevin, lkundrak, pierre-bugzilla |
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-03-17 17:11:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Linus Torvalds
2008-01-18 00:06:09 UTC
Note that 0.9.8-4 is the version from updates-testing... you might confirm that it happens with the older 0.9.7 packages from updates? Also, you can run nspluginwrapper to at least not cause your browser to crash... See: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Desktop.html#sn-Enabling-Flash-Plugin which also will allow you to run a x86_64 firefox and nuke a bunch of unneeded i386 packages. Umm. I don't have updates-testing enabled, so there's something wrong if I got it from there. And I just checked: updates *does* contain 0.9.8-4 as of today. In fact, as of yesterday. Which is when firefox started crashing for me. As to nspluginwrapper, I'll try that, but it would be even better to have pulseaudio not cause flash problems even if firefox itself doesn't crash... Oops. You are right. It got pushed to updates today. ;( Agreed, nspluginwrapper is just a sort of workaround to keep it from crashing your browser... better to fix the problem. :( one small note: after the 0.9.8-4 update, pulseaudio appeared to be 'not working'. On my audigy, it switched to preferring the "PCM Front" mixer for playback volume (which was mute), rather than the "Front" mixer it had been using previously. Linus: I was not able to reproduce this. Nor was I able to find that Apple/Vista ad. that would probably help me reproduce this. Do you have a link to it? Also, it would probably be helpful if you managed to get a core dump and an usable backtrace from it. Would you mind doing a debuginfo-install libflashsupport pusleaudio firefox, running firefox with ulimit -c unlimited and getting a stack trace from it once this happens to you again? From the description this seems very similar to bug 398641 - which has/had debuginfo stacktraces, and which I still see regularly (that is when I enable flash) Firefox flashblock is a convenient workaround. I have re-enabled pulseaudio, but cannot recreate this any more. It may have been some unfortunate interaction with that one Apple ad that is no longer running, or (fingers crossed), maybe it's actually magically fixed some way. Regardless, I'm closing this bug-report as useless due to insufficient data. Assuming bugzilla allows me to, of course. |