From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040706 Firefox/0.9.1 Description of problem: Any mozilla based browser (mozilla, firefox, epiphany) doesn't use esd when a program another program has launched it and mozilla will consequently grab the sound device when esd lets go of it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.6-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: On a sound card that cannot do hardware mixing: 1. Start gnome-sound-properties. Make sure that "Enable sound server startup" is unset (if it was you will need to log out and back in after unsetting it) 2. Start gstreamer-properties and set the output to "ESD - Enlightment Sound Daemon". Click Close. 3. Start gnome-keybinding-properties and bind the <Pause> key to "Play (or Play/Pause)". Click Close. 4. Start rhythmbox and start playing a track by pressing the <Pause> key 5. Start mozilla. Once it has loaded make sure it has focus and press the <Pause> key four times. Actual Results: A dialog called error appears and says "Could not open resource for writing.". It's not completely clear which program this dialog came from. Expected Results: Music to start and stop. Additional info: The strange thing is that after dismissing the dialog you can press pause and rhythmbox will successfully start playing music from the start again. So it appears that mozilla grabs then releases the sound device (the page that mozilla is on is file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html ) This bug can be worked around by making sure that "Enable sound server startup" is set. Mozilla then appears to use esd and doesn't grab the sound card device as soon as it becomes free when rhythmbox is paused. I didn't know that this option had to be set in order to use esd, perhaps I need to spin off another bug about that.
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Closing per lack of response. Note that FC1 and FC2 are no longer supported even by Fedora Legacy. Please install a still supported version and retest. If this still occurs on FC3 or FC4 and is a security issue, please assign to that version and Fedora Legacy. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. mozilla itself is not shipped in FC6, so for most of these bugs that means testing in FC5 or against firefox.