139952 - mozilla crashes when using flash plugin and can't access audio device

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58339

(External Software Affecting Firefox Graveyard :: Flash (Adobe), defect, P2)

Description

[Jim Gottlieb]

This seems similar to bug 58339, except this is a different platform and the
browser crashes instead of hanging.

If one visits a site using Flash and audio and the plugin can't open the audio
device, mozilla crashes.  NS4 does not have a problem with this.  It just reports 
"Unable to get write access to sound device /dev/audio" and continues on showing
the video.

a truss of mozilla shows:
   access("/dev/audio", 2)                         Err#13 EACCES
open("trace.txt", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0666) Err#13 EACCES
Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS  %pc = 0xFEB85068
siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x0000000C
Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x0000000C
*** process killed ***


This problem hits me all the time.  I'll often be listening to an Internet radio
station while browsing and I'll unknowingly hit a page with some Flash audio and
my browser dies because the audio port is in use.

Comment 1

[shrirang khanzode]

I would say this is a dup  of 58339.

Comment 2

[rubydoo123]

I tried this out on win32 just to see if it also crashed:
1. brought up spinner, selected a station
2. browsed over to http://bigego.com/ and ended up at referenced page.

No crash, but I had overlapping music which was quite interesting (try Peter, 
Paul and Mary behind Little Miss Communication.

On the mac tested as well and no crash

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

duh, forgot to mark it as a dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58339 ***

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

v

Comment 5

[Jim Gottlieb]

On my SPARC Ultra 5 at home, I was also able to hear multiple audio feeds.  In
order to duplicate the bug, I did a "chmod 000 /dev/audio".

However, at work we use Sun Rays and they don't seem to allow multiple audio
feeds, and we also sometimes browse using another machine across the network so
the user does not have access to /dev/audio.

I'll accept the bug as a DUP, but then do note that the platform does not match.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Version and milestone values are being reset to defaults as part of product refactoring.