Bug 432448

Summary: No sound with Adobe Flash media due to missing alsa-libs.i386 deps
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Keith G. Robertson-Turner <redhat-bugzilla>
Component: libflashsupportAssignee: Warren Togami <wtogami>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Keith G. Robertson-Turner 2008-02-12 03:03:39 UTC
Description of problem:
nspluggin wrapper in conjunction with libflashsupport, and the Adobe Flash
plugin, won't produce any audio output without the i386 version of alsa-libs,
specifically /lib/libasound.so.2, which is not provided in the x86_64 repo.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libflashsupport-000-0.1.svn20070904

How reproducible:
Always

1. yum -y install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64} pulseaudio-libs.i386 libflashsupport
2. mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v
3. launch Firefox and attempt to view Flash content
  
Actual results:
Video playback with no sound

Expected results:
Sound support

Additional info:
I discovered this by accident (a hunch), and could find no other info about this
anywhere, so presumably there will be a lot of people out there interested in
this solution (install alsa-libs.i386).

I'm not sure that this is supposed to be the correct behaviour, but it works
regardless.

Comment 1 Warren Togami 2008-02-12 03:18:30 UTC
Hey Lennart,

Do you know if libflashsupport.i386 actually must have alsa-lib.i386 installed
in order to work?  It has no library link dependency on it so it isn't
explicitly pulled in.

Comment 2 Keith G. Robertson-Turner 2008-02-12 04:00:23 UTC
Actually I only have libflashsupport.x86_64, the i386 version wasn't pulled in
as a dep either (is it's needed on an AMD64 system?).

Perhaps this dependency on alsa-lib.i386 is hard-coded into Adobe's
libflashplayer.so? That might explain the problem.

Comment 3 Warren Togami 2008-02-19 15:21:38 UTC
Each arch of libflashsupport needs to Require its corresponding arch of
alsa-lib.  On the surface this seems like it would be simple, but it really isn't. 

Requires: alsa-lib

This alone is not enough to guarantee that you will actually get both archs,
because one arch alone will satisfy the dependency unfortunately. 

Comment 4 Warren Togami 2008-08-04 19:02:37 UTC
It was deemed impossible to pull this into a default install due to release engineering policy, and anyhow in Flash 10 you do not even need libflashsupport anymore.  Closing CANTFIX.