[pulseaudio-discuss] Help for debugging a firefox/flashplugin/pulseaudio issue

[Mads Kiilerich]

Ozan Çağlayan wrote, On 12/22/2009 11:48 PM:
>  From time to time and especially when that firefox is left running for a
> long time(possibly left running while one of the tabs I've mentioned was
> *playing* some music); firefox stops playing sounds.
>
> It's also quite possible that the user locks his KDE session when
> leaving the computer.
>
>  From pacmd we can see that the relevant source-input (registered by
> firefox) is still there even all the tabs are closed. Its state is
> DRAINED. The only solution is to kill firefox which causes the
> source-input to disappear. Killing and relaunching firefox fixes the
> problem.
>    

I think I sometimes see the same on Fedora.

I do however use nspluginwrapper, so "killall npviewer.bin" kills the 
flash process, and after a reload of the page sound usually works again.

I have filed this under "flash sucks"...

/Mads