1412767 - Crash in __pthread_kill | abort | audiounit_set_device_info

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1411866

(Core :: Audio/Video: cubeb, defect, P1)

Description

[theruck]

This bug was filed from the Socorro interface and is 
report bp-d85ec4ba-542e-4f89-94b0-c94c41171028.
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this is related to a USB sound card., it is the only sound device in the system.
when the card is plugged out and during firefox is playing or about to play any sound, it crashes. Even the restored session after the crash does crash again.
Without the sound card there is no way to use firefox with pages that produce sound (outlook web access, youtube etc.). i did not experience this issue until firefox 56

Comment 1

[Andreas Pehrson [:pehrsons]]

This sounds like bug 1409224. Chun-Min, could you help in testing this and verifying whether it works with bug 1411866?
Alex, can you take ownership of this bug?

Comment 2

[Andreas Pehrson [:pehrsons]]

Forgot to actually ask chun-min.

Comment 3

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

(In reply to theruck from comment #0)
> this is related to a USB sound card., it is the only sound device in the
> system.

What kind Mac OS X system doesn't have a built in sound card?

Comment 4

[Andreas Pehrson [:pehrsons]]

Mac mini, Mac pro. They have sound cards but no output device in the API unless you plug one in aiui.

Comment 5

[C.M.Chang[:chunmin]]

Unfortunately, my Mac Mini has a built-in speaker, so I have no way to check this.
theruck, which device are you using?

Comment 6

[theruck]

creative labs SB1240 but i can test it with a cheap USB sound card as well
to test it you can disable your on board audio device by deleting the appropriate kext in S/L/E. could be called AppleHDA.kext in your case.

Comment 7

[C.M.Chang[:chunmin]]

theruck, thanks for the hint!

I use `$ sudo kextunload AppleHDA.kext` under `/System/Library/Extensions` to disable the default output device, and connect my ASUS Xonar U7 via USB as the sound card. When Xonar is plugged out while youtube is playing, the video get stuck loading next frame and keep showing the loading animation. In my case, it returned an error here[0] without crash, when it failed reconfiguring the default output device.

[0] http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/7e090b227f7a0ec44d4ded604823d48823158c51/media/libcubeb/src/cubeb_audiounit.cpp#605

Comment 8

[Andreas Pehrson [:pehrsons]]

Chun-Min, for the record, which build were you on? Did it have the patches for bug 1411866?

Comment 9

[C.M.Chang[:chunmin]]

I use nightly to test this on Mac Mini, so it has the patches for bug 1411866. I believe this will be fixed on Firefox 58 since Cubeb pull 358[0] already addressed this issue and it's landed into gecko on bug 1405258.

[0] https://github.com/kinetiknz/cubeb/pull/358/files#diff-148fe3e6ebf13351ba4d886b1b4898d2R605

Comment 10

[C.M.Chang[:chunmin]]

(In reply to Chun-Min Chang[:chunmin] from comment #9)
> I use nightly to test this on Mac Mini, so it has the patches for bug
> 1411866. I believe this will be fixed on Firefox 58 since Cubeb pull 358[0]
> already addressed this issue and it's landed into gecko on bug 1405258.
> 
> [0]
> https://github.com/kinetiknz/cubeb/pull/358/files#diff-
> 148fe3e6ebf13351ba4d886b1b4898d2R605
Firefox 56 crashes in same scenario but Firefox 58.0a1 works fine.

Comment 11

[Alex Chronopoulos [:achronop]]

For the history, the fix has been uplifted in 57 as well.

Comment 12

[theruck]

i confirm that nightly 58.0a1 does not crash

Comment 13

[Andreas Pehrson [:pehrsons]]

Great, thanks everyone!