problem identified: Flash locking /dev/snd (Re: F11: I keep losing audio)

[Colin Brace]

Hi all,

I have determined what has been causing audio to fail on my F11 system:
Flash locks the sound device and subsequent applications can't output sound. 

A typical course of events is: first I play a YouTube video in Firefox or
Epiphany. Then I try to listen to some tracks in Rhythmbox. The latter
simply refuses to output. (This happens as well with VLC etc)

In a terminal this is what I see: 

$ fuser -v /dev/snd/* 
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   colin     29931 F...m npviewer.bin

or, with epiphany:

$ fuser -v /dev/snd/*

                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   colin     15623 F...m epiphany

killing epiphany or npviewer.bin fixes things; rhythmbox begins playing
music as soon as I do this.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to keep Flash from *monopolizing* the
sound device? I thought these kinds of issues were settled by
ALSA/pulseaudio; that is to say, I didn't encounter this behaviour in
earlier Fedoras.

Thanks.



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