After Playing Flash video, No sound in other programs

[RevendRichie]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

After playing a flash video, the CPU usage will go peak to about 80 percent and remain there until Firefox is closed. Also, while firefox is still open, no other programs will have access to the sound system. Once Firefox is closed, the other programs will have sound. Sometime, a reboot is required to completely restore normal functionality.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 30 05:25:23 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-rt i686

[Gaurav (gaurav-gprs)]

Happens with me too using Ubuntu 8.04
After playing any flash video, no other application ( amarok, vlc, mplayer) can play any media files.

I had to perform

$ killall pulseaudio

after which all video and audio files started playing perfectly

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 08:46:57AM -0000, Gaurav wrote:
> Happens with me too using Ubuntu 8.04
> After playing any flash video, no other application ( amarok, vlc, mplayer) can play any media files.
>
> I had to perform
>
> $ killall pulseaudio
>
> after which all video and audio files started playing perfectly
>

this is a flashplugin-nonfree issue

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status invalid

 affects ubuntu/flashplugin-nonfree

and its a dupe of an existing master

 status incomplete
 tag likely-dup

 - Alexander

[GioSico (john-giosico)]

I have this problem too ... and I have yet to determine the cause ... I usually find out when I try to play sound or flash with VLC ... so I know it is not caused by another application all of the time.

My solution ... which actually kills firefox is to run ...

lsof | grep pcm

and then kill the process with snd in it such as

firefox 6035 usernamehere mem CHR 116,16 11989 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
firefox 6035 usernamehere 56u CHR 116,16 11989 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p

Hope that helps

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 with Shockwave flash 9.0 r124 Add-On

[odraudek99 (odraudek99)]

Hello!!!
I found a solution:

I installed this packs

   - libflash-mozplugin

   - libflashsupport

$sudo apt-get install libflash-mozplugin libflashsupport

and reset FireFox

Fuente: http://www.ubuntu-es.org/index.php?q=node/87277

2008/6/30 GioSico <email address hidden>:

> I have this problem too ... and I have yet to determine the cause ... I
> usually find out when I try to play sound or flash with VLC ... so I
> know it is not caused by another application all of the time.
>
> My solution ... which actually kills firefox is to run ...
>
> lsof | grep pcm
>
> and then kill the process with snd in it such as
>
> firefox 6035 usernamehere mem CHR 116,16 11989
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
> firefox 6035 usernamehere 56u CHR 116,16 11989
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
>
> Hope that helps
>
> I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 with Shockwave flash 9.0 r124
> Add-On
>
> --
> After Playing Flash video, No sound in other programs
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236052
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Source Package "firefox-3.0" in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in Source Package "flashplugin-nonfree" in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> After playing a flash video, the CPU usage will go peak to about 80 percent
> and remain there until Firefox is closed. Also, while firefox is still open,
> no other programs will have access to the sound system. Once Firefox is
> closed, the other programs will have sound. Sometime, a reboot is required
> to completely restore normal functionality.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri May 30 05:25:23 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-rt i686
>

[co0lingFir3 (coolingfire)]

thanks a lot adraudek99! simply installing libflashsupport fixed the problem for me. thx again!

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 06:50:21PM -0000, co0lingFir3 wrote:
> thanks a lot adraudek99! simply installing libflashsupport fixed the
> problem for me. thx again!
>

Remember that libflashsupport will cause random and quite frequent crashes
of firefox on i386.

 - Alexander