[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#733932: chromium: Abort on failed assertion with ALSA playback

[Dominik George]

Package: chromium
Version: 31.0.1650.63-1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable

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*** Preliminary note: I will NOT submit this bug upstream as I refuse to use
*** a bug tracker for which I need an account with a major spyware provider.

Chromium crashes when playing back audio through plain ALSA. Apparently,
it runs into an assertion that fails, because the code lacks sanity
checks on stuff returned by ALSA library code beforehand.

[26258:26285:0102/124617:ERROR:audio_manager_base.cc(422)] Not implemented reached in virtual std::string media::AudioManagerBase::GetDefaultOutputDeviceID()
[26258:26278:0102/124617:ERROR:audio_manager_base.cc(422)] Not implemented reached in virtual std::string media::AudioManagerBase::GetDefaultOutputDeviceID()
ALSA lib pcm.c:7986:(snd_pcm_set_params) Unable to get period size for PLAYBACK: Invalid argument
chromium --password-store=detect: pcm_params.c:170: snd1_pcm_hw_param_get_min: Assertion !snd_interval_empty(i)' failed.
Aborted 

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector   31.0.1650.57-1
ii  gconf-service        3.2.6-1
ii  libasound2           1.0.27.2-3
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                2.17-97
ii  libcairo2            1.12.16-2
ii  libcups2             1.6.4-2
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.6.18-1
ii  libexpat1            2.1.0-4
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-2
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.1-1
ii  libgcc1              1:4.8.2-10
ii  libgconf-2-4         3.2.6-1
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.3-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.28.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.36.4-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.8.0-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.22-1
ii  libjpeg8             8d-1
ii  libnspr4             2:4.10.2-1
ii  libnss3              2:3.15.3-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.0-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.0-1
ii  libspeechd2          0.7.1-6.3
ii  libspeex1            1.2~rc1.1-1
ii  libstdc++6           4.8.2-10
ii  libudev1             204-5
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.1-1
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.8-1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-2
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.2-1
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
ii  chromium-l10n  31.0.1650.63-1

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