Chromium 69 is partly broken with PulseAudio

[Mikhail Novosyolov]

Behaviour of input anbd output devices was changed and partly broken in chromium 69, see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=880180.

Including, but not only, partly breaking switching input and output devices in pavucontrol, see commennt #26 by the link above. Also, I'm not sure how it will behave with module-switch-on-connect (my comment about it is #27).

For my use-cases it is a severe regression, and I blocked updating to 69.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Confirming, based on the upstream bug report.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

With chromium 69, If I try to play music in rhythmbox after pausing video on youtube I get errors like this:

 E: [pulseaudio] shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: [pulseaudio] pstream.c: Failed to create permanent mapping for memfd region with ID = 3940782957
 E: [pulseaudio] protocol-native.c: Failed to register memfd mempool. Reason: could not attach memfd SHM ID to pipe

and can't hear any music from Rhythmbox. Is this related ?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

According to the upstream bug report, this issue should be fixed in chromium 70, which is available on all supported Ubuntu releases (except for trusty).

Mikhail, Khurshid: can you please test the latest update and report whether the issues are fixed?

[Mikhail Novosyolov (mikhailnov)]

yes, it is fixed