Sound stuck in endless loop in firefox

[Curtis Lewco]

I am running Ubuntu 7.04 and was occurring still in 6.10.
While playing online games at pogo.com sound gets stuck on one effect until Firefox is closed.
Games I have noticed so far are Pinochle (sound of cards shuffling)
Hog heaven slots (sound of slot machine rotating)
Popit (bonus spin)
I have played these games using the same version of Firefox(2.0.0.3) in XP and problem doesn't occur.
I tried other browsers in 6.10 and no change.

[QuentinHartman (qhartman)]

These look like Flash games. What version of Flash player do you have installed? This can be checked by putting "about:plugins" in your address bar. Look for the "Shockwave Flash" listing. It should show the version a couple lines below. Also, are you running 64-bit Ubuntu, or 32-bit?

[Curtis Lewco (lewcoc)]

----- Original Message -----
From: Q Hartman <email address hidden>
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:50 pm
Subject: [Bug 109807] Re: Sound stuck in endless loop in firefox
To: <email address hidden>

> These look like Flash games. What version of Flash player do you have
> installed? This can be checked by putting "about:plugins" in your
> address bar. Look for the "Shockwave Flash" listing. It should
> show the
> version a couple lines below. Also, are you running 64-bit
> Ubuntu, or
> 32-bit?
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
>      Assignee: (unassigned) => Q Hartman
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Sound stuck in endless loop in firefox
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109807
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
I am using shockwave flash version 9.0 r48 currently on 32bit.

[QuentinHartman (qhartman)]

Does this problem still exist? Turns out that "popit" at least is actually a java game. I was able to successfully play using firefox 2.0.0.11 and Sun Java 1.6 on Gutsy for quite some time without any sound anomalies. I am going to set this bug to "incomplete" for now. Please let me know if you are still having problems or not. Thanks!

[Patrick R. (trackwh0re)]

Yes it does still exist. If you play a game that has constant sound playing it occurs, but not on those with just effects on actions.
"Stack Em" is a free game that you can test where this occurs.

[QuentinHartman (qhartman)]

Ok, so I played Stack Em for about half an hour, and never got the sound to seem stuck or looping or anything. It also did not seem constant though. There only seemed to be sounds when I moved pieces or there were other events. There was no background music or anything. I'll try it on a Windows machine as soon as I can and see if I notice a difference. In the meantime, would you tell me what versions of Ubuntu, Firefox, and Java you are using, as well as what kind of sound card you have?

[Patrick R. (trackwh0re)]

Ubuntu 7.10
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11
java version "1.6.0_03"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode, sharing)
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (using the emu10k1 module)

[Patrick R. (trackwh0re)]

I forgot to add that I cannot turn off the music once it's been started.

[Patrick R. (trackwh0re)]

I swapped out soundcards and my other soundcard doesn't experience this symptom.
Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI using the snd_ens1371 module.

[Patrick R. (trackwh0re)]

Well, it came down to a misconfiguration or lets say a lack there of. I just had the settings that are used by asoundconf and when I added the following lines in my .asoundrc it works perfectly fine.

!defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.ctl.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.pcm.subdevice -1

Sorry about the "spam" in the launchpad, but I am sure some people will find this useful as well.

[QuentinHartman (qhartman)]

Ok, thanks for the feedback Patrick, and thanks for persevering through to a solution. I was having a hard time replicating the problem. I see you aren't the person who opened this bug, but I'm going to go ahead and close it as "invalid" for now since the problem seems to be due to a configuration issue and not a firefox bug. Thanks again for your help!