If a flashplayer webpage such as youtube is left up overnight the sound system will lock for that instance of firefox.

[Hil]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Software versions...

Ubuntu 9.10
Firefox 3.5.5
pulseaudio 0.9.19
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

If I have a flashplayer video up and as long as I am working within firefox I do not seem to have a problem, but if I leave a flashplayer video up overnight I will have the video either lockup or play with no sound.

Had a similar issue a few versions of Ubuntu back when half of apps was using Alsa and the other half was using pulse. But back then it would just lock instantly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 8 08:51:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: firefox 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1550): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1667): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1647): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:1646): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 24

[Ilari Nieminen (ilari-t-nieminen)]

I can confirm this.

When Firefox enters this "state", quitting it still leaves the process on the background (at least for several minutes), triggering the "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." when attempting to restart Firefox. After killing the process and restarting Firefox, sound works normally in Flash. I have seen the same symptoms on two different machines already.

Running:

Ubuntu 9.10 with 2.6.31-16-generic
Firefox 3.5.6
pulseaudio 0.9.19
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r42

I'm willing to provide additional information if needed, but I don't know what else to supply at this point.