I have made some interesting discoveries regarding this bug.
First of all, libflashsupport appears to trigger these crashes, but it is apparently exposing a bug in flash, not pulseaudio. See this upstream ticket: http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/267
Secondly, I have installed Fedora 9 (rawhide i686) on my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 510m), which has the following installed:
What I noticed is that Firefox never crashes on flash contents in Fedora 9 with the packages listed above, and pulse output works perfectly. If I remove nspluginwrapper, however, Firefox crashes on flash contents, just as in Hardy. I am guessing that the npviewer.bin process is isolated and prevents firefox from crashing.
I find it interesting that Fedora ships with nspluginwrapper for the x86 architecture, since it seems redundant, but it appears to solve the problem with flash. I will try to recompile nspluginwrapper on Hardy for the i386 architecture and see if it helps with this problem.
I have made some interesting discoveries regarding this bug.
First of all, libflashsupport appears to trigger these crashes, but it is apparently exposing a bug in flash, not pulseaudio. See this upstream ticket: http:// www.pulseaudio. org/ticket/ 267
Secondly, I have installed Fedora 9 (rawhide i686) on my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 510m), which has the following installed:
pulseaudio- module- gconf-0. 9.10-1. fc9.i386 utils-0. 9.10-1. fc9.i386 plugins- pulse-0. 9.5-0.5. svn20070924. fc9.i386 core-libs- 0.9.10- 1.fc9.i386 libs-glib2- 0.9.10- 1.fc9.i386 0.9.10- 1.fc9.i386 module- x11-0.9. 10-1.fc9. i386 esound- compat- 0.9.10- 1.fc9.i386 libs-0. 9.10-1. fc9.i386 pulseaudio- 1.0.16- 4.fc9.i386 -000-0. 5.svn20070904. i386 9.0.124. 0-release. i386 -0.9.91. 5-26.fc9. i386
pulseaudio-
gstreamer-
pulseaudio-
pulseaudio-
pulseaudio-
pulseaudio-
pulseaudio-
pulseaudio-
alsa-plugins-
libflashsupport
flash-plugin-
nspluginwrapper
What I noticed is that Firefox never crashes on flash contents in Fedora 9 with the packages listed above, and pulse output works perfectly. If I remove nspluginwrapper, however, Firefox crashes on flash contents, just as in Hardy. I am guessing that the npviewer.bin process is isolated and prevents firefox from crashing.
I find it interesting that Fedora ships with nspluginwrapper for the x86 architecture, since it seems redundant, but it appears to solve the problem with flash. I will try to recompile nspluginwrapper on Hardy for the i386 architecture and see if it helps with this problem.