292260 - thunderbird 'blocks' all sounds, which are all realease one after another when thunderbird is closed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Aaron D. Campbell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3

This does NOT happen right away, and I'm not 100% sure what exactly triggers it,
but at some point, I will stop receiving ALL sounds (it seems that given enought
time, this will ALWAYS happen).  To remedy the situation, I simply close
thunderbird, which results is a flood of all those sounds I had missed (as
though they had all been added to a queue, and the queue is being flushed out).
 I can then re-open thunderbird.

I'm on Fedora Core 3, with KDE 3.3.1 and Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2
I open thunderbird with the 'place in system tray' option, although this doesn't
seem to affect the problem, and no other system tray programs seem to affect it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 on Fedora Core 3 in KDE 3.3.1-1
2. wait
3. when you no longer receive sound, close thunderbird.

Actual Results:  
flood of missing sounds

Expected Results:  
not affected my sound

Sound card info (Built into the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe MB):
Vendor: nVidia
Model: Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controller (MCP)
Module: snd-intel8x0

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Possibly related to bug 220035  

Comment 2

[Aaron D. Campbell]

Well, that bug seems to claim that the sound does not work.  For me, it works
for a while, and then stops.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Aaron, do you still see this problem?  (suspect his address is dead)

Comment 4

[Richard Neill]

I suspect that this is actually a problem with ArTS in KDE. Artsd usually auto-starts and auto-suspends, which is what will make the triggering of this bug look random. Then TB gets a lock on /dev/dsp - and Arts can't re-open it.

Since we now have Alsa with dmix, all the audio daemons are obsolete. 
So, 
  1. Make sure you are running Alsa, and that dmix is enabled.
  2. Disabling the KDE sound service entirely. 
  3. For the KDE sounds, check "use external player", and pick one you like; I tend to prefer sox. See: http://www.richardneill.org/a22p-mdk11-0.php#sound

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

so this is not a thunderbird bug?  i.e. invalid

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Resolving Invalid as this seems to be triggered by the sound daemons on the Linux system. If you still see the issue in 3.0 nightlies please file a new bug.