[Jaunty] Alsa PulseAudio integration crashes Firefox flashplayer

[Ongion]

Binary package hint: libasound2-plugins

Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04
Kernel: 2.6.28-7-generic
libasound2-plugins version: 1.0.18-1ubuntu3
pulsaudio version: 0.9.14-0ubuntu4: 10.0.15.3ubuntu3
firefox version: 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

Firefox crashes on all attempts to use Flash Player, including YouTube and most Flash Games (www.kongregate.com).
The page is generally displayed for about 5 seconds on average, occasionally with a little of the audio beginning. The audio in this case is very choppy, with a lot of background noise. The audio will not play for more than half a second before Firefox crashes.

Firefox crashes with terminal output:
ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:626:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: Invalid argument (repeated about 10 times)

E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory (repeated about 30 times)

firefox: pulse.c:200: pulse_new: Assertion `p->context' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

All the text appears in the half-second when the audio occasionally plays. It appears even when the audio does not start.

[Andrew Seyes (andrew-seyes)]

Hello,
I had this problem and noticed I had flash version 9 installed.
On upgrading flash to version 10 embedded video playback works again.

[Ongion (benpy2k)]

Yup, upgrading to 10 did it. Thanks!

[Andrew Seyes (andrew-seyes)]

No problem - glad it worked for you too!

2009/4/6 Ongion <email address hidden>

> Yup, upgrading to 10 did it. Thanks!
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