Firefox (flash) mute pulseaudio and do not appear in sound app list

[Guillaume Modard]

Ubuntu 11.10
hp notebook dv6

Regretion

When playing sound in firefox flash player, I can't use other sound app (sound is muted). Only flash player "speaks". Furthermore, flash player is not listed in Applications list of sound settings (as it was in ubuntu 11.04).

However if I read HTML5 sound/video in firefox, it works properly (only flash make sound system bugs).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: firefox 7.0~b3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: guillaume 1585 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: guillaume 4021 f.... npviewer.bin
BuildID: 20110830191244
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xc4500000 irq 45'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD81B1X5'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7605,103c163c,00100402'
   Controls : 14
   Simple ctrls : 9
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'Generic'/'HD-Audio Generic at 0xc4420000 irq 46'
   Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100200'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Channel: beta
Date: Sun Sep 4 10:27:56 2011
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110719)
IpRoute:
 default via 10.22.50.1 dev wlan0 proto static
 10.22.0.0/16 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.22.50.42
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0/20110830191244 (Running)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-25 (9 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/21/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.23
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 163C
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 65.35
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.23:bd10/21/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv6NotebookPC:pvr0589120000242B10010020100:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn163C:rvr65.35:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 0589120000242B10010020100
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This is caused by libasound2-plugins:i386 being missing from your system. It should be installed automatically, but is not due to bug #861025.

You can manually install it by running the following command:

  sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386 libjack0 libjack0:i386

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Bug 861025 has been fixed in oneiric. You can fix sound now by just running:

  sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386

Users who newly install the flashplugin package in oneiric, or who upgrade to the final release of oneiric, will get libasound2-plugins installed with it automatically.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

The suggested fix did not work here. This is a fresh install from Oneiric.