[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #780: Firefox crash with inactive pulseaudio

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#780: Firefox crash with inactive pulseaudio
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  Reporter:  Fynjy    |       Owner:  lennart 
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  closed  
 Milestone:           |   Component:  libpulse
Resolution:  invalid  |    Keywords:          
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Changes (by coling):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid


Comment:

 If you disable Pulse, then how can pulse cause the crash? Firefox is an
 alsa client, if alsa is not configured to route audio from it's 'default'
 device to pulseaudio (which is part of the process to "disable pulseaudio"
 which you do at step 1) then libpulse will not be involved by the
 application at all.

 This backtrace confirms that libpulse is not used here. The functions and
 files mentioned in the bug report are not from pulseaudio but from some
 other application (it doesn't say which).

 The upstream bug report claims that "resampler_basic_interpolate_single"
 is pulseaudio but AFAICT this is not the case. This symbol does not appear
 in the pulseaudio codebase. Infact we don't even have a resample.c file at
 all.

 Don't know why the upstream guy brought up pulseaudio at all... I see no
 reason to have included it.

 With a trivial amount of research I can confirm that the files/symbols in
 question are from the "pph" plugin in alsa-plugins. It seems you have
 configured some kind of rate adjustment. AFAICT this is a non-standard
 thing so you must have configured this manually.

 I've added a comment to the upstream report.

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