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Description of problem: When Firefox is playing a video inside a sandbox - and even when the video is paused - pulseaudio locks, so if mplayer tries to play something from outside the sandbox, it blocks. This could be a security issue, especially for blind users who might rely more on audio cues. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): policycoreutils-sandbox-2.0.85-12.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install policycoreutils-sandbox metacity 2. reboot 3. sandbox -X -H sandboxes/music/ -t sandbox_web_t -W metacity firefox 4. Go to youtube.com and play a video 5. (Optional) Pause the video 6. Outside of the sandbox, try to play some music using mplayer Actual results: mplayer hangs at 0.0% Expected results: mplayer should play the song or stream Additional info: Afterwards, it's necessary to killall pulseaudio, to get sound working again. (Pulseaudio bug?) Something automatically respawns pulseaudio as soon as you kill it. Then you might have to try playing music a couple of times before it works. This bug does not happen when firefox is not run inside a sandbox.
Not sure of the use case of a blind user using sandbox, but... I believe what is happening is we have two pulseaudio clients running on the machine each one running as the same UID but not able to see each other. (Well at least the one inside the sandbox does not see the one outside the sandbox. But both are using the same sockets in /dev/shm. Does sound resume within the sandbox? Not sure what would happen if we mount over /dev/shm from within the sandbox? That might be even worse of a security violation. I will reassign to pulseaudio to see if they have a comment.
Hey I don't know what sandbox is, but I'm having the same problem just running Firefox normally. If I load a flash video first then try to start sound with any other app it wont work. On the other hand if I first have sound going from another app then I can't get sound on the flash video.
(In reply to comment #2) > Hey I don't know what sandbox is, but I'm having the same problem just running > Firefox normally. I don't think that's the same problem. This is about other apps blocking (i.e. getting stuck). I think your problem is an issue with Flash, or maybe pulseaudio, but it's certainly not a bug in sandbox because you're not using it.
oh ok sorry I will file a new bug then.
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