[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #595: Firefox crashes with Pulseaudio context error when playing Flash movies

PulseAudio trac-noreply at tango.0pointer.de
Thu Jul 2 07:16:14 PDT 2009 

#595: Firefox crashes with Pulseaudio context error when playing Flash movies
----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
 Reporter:  Chris Sherlock  |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new    
Milestone:                  |   Component:  daemon 
 Keywords:                  |  
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 When I try to load Youtube, when the videos start playing Firefox 3
 crashes. If I run Firefox 3 from the console, I get the following:

 chris at ubuntu:~$ firefox
 ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:626:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create
 stream: Invalid argument

 ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:626:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create
 stream: Invalid argument

 ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:626:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create
 stream: Invalid argument

 ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:626:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create
 stream: Invalid argument

 ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:626:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create
 stream: Invalid argument

 ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:626:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create
 stream: Invalid argument

 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
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 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
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 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
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 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
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 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 E: shm.c: mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
 firefox: pulse.c:200: pulse_new: Assertion `p->context' failed.
 Aborted

 I have done a look at existing bugs in the bugtracker, but I can't find
 anything.

 It looks like this is affecting a large number of people, see
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/371147

 I am happy to work towards whatever is needed to determine what is going
 on. I apologise in advance if there is a lack of information, if there is
 something that I need to provide then I am more than happy to supply it to
 you!

 An lspci shows the following for my devices:

 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
 Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
         Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
         Memory at efffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
         Capabilities: <access denied>
         Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
         Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
 Port 1 (rev 01)
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
         Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
         Memory behind bridge: efc00000-efcfffff
         Capabilities: <access denied>
         Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
         Kernel modules: shpchp

 I know that it's been useful for some others, so I've run pulseaudio -vvvv
 - I've attached this to the ticket.

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/595>
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