80860 - browser won't start if /dev/dsp is busy

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58339

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Troy Engel]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i686)
BuildID:    2001050717 (0.9)

If /dev/dsp is busy, mozilla hangs on start waiting for it to free up.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start xmms and play a MP3 stream off the web
2. start mozilla


Actual Results:  Mozilla hangs.

Expected Results:  Mozilla starts! ;)

Running 'strace mozilla' shows it waiting on /dev/dsp to free up.  If you stop
xmms, mozilla then continues to load.

This is on a RedHat 6.2 Intel box using the 0.9-0 RPMS from the mozilla ftp
site.  0.8 RPMS did not have this problem.

Shockwave Flash 5.0 r47 is detected in my netscape plugin directory and loaded -
perhaps this is the problem.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Flash is indeed the problem.

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

Comment 2

[Scott Tran (Wildcard)]

Verified Dupe...