PulseAudio-6.0 instability in Mozila apps (placeholder)

[Fernando de Oliveira]

Verified in Firefox, Seamonkey and Thunderbird.

Occurs in Fluxbox, Icewm, Openbox, LXDE, but not in XFCE.

Symptom: click in the tab bar crashes application. Trying to access menu crashes. Application is unusable.

Problem also occurs if .mozilla and .thunderbird are removed, so application is run in a fresh system.

Log:

$ env LC_ALL=C firefox

(process:552): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion
'sys_page_size == 0' failed
Failed to open configuration file '(null)': Bad address
Assertion 'size <= (PA_ALIGN(1024*1024*1024))' failed at
pulsecore/shm.c:113, function pa_shm_create_rw(). Aborting.
Abortado
$

Solution. It is necessary to remove PulseAudio-6.0 and (in my case) 5.0, then install PulseAudio-5.0. The problem id gone.

The same log error was reported at

​https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89157

but closed "Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG".

[bdubbs@…]

Let's revert PA to 5.0 for BLFS 7.7. Fernando, can you do that?

[Fernando de Oliveira]

"Fixed" at r15566.

[Fernando de Oliveira]

Update:

Did two more tests.

1. Added PA-6.0, rebuilt FF, same error.

2. Removed both PAs (5 and 6). No PA in the system, now. Sound works fine (certainly alsa) with the same FF of item 1 above (tested YouTube).

Will keep that way.

Many bad days, only problems to solve, could not yet build 7.7-rc1.

[bdubbs@…]

I built pulseaudio-6 and then rebuilt firefox. FF works fine in twm, lxde, and kde. I Brought up youtube and in each case it worked fine.

One minor change I made building pulse was to omit the sed to the Makefile.in files and removed the --with-module-dir= option. I don't know if that made a difference or not.

The only thing I think that does is install the modules in /usr/lib/pulse-6.0/modules instead of /usr/lib/pulse/modules.

I did get the GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed message, but that's common for a lot of apps. I did not get any other messages.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at revision 15724.