[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#833477: chromium: Chromecast device not found after update to 52.

[Joel Brunetti]

Package: chromium
Version: 52.0.2743.82-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

After the recent update of chromium from 51 to 52 the browser is no longer able
to find the chromecast device present on the network.

The system that can no longer detect the chromecast was able to prior to the
update.

A second system that has yet to fully receive the update can still detect and
cast to the chromecast device as can a ChromeOS system with Chrome 52.

I have been unable to find good resources on how to debug this problem so my
troubleshooting has been little more than resetting the chromecast and
rebooting the effected system. This did not yield any positive results.

I understand that there have been recent changes that integrated cast support
into Chrome starting at 51 and that those changes appear to have made it into
Chromium 52.

Thanks,
Joel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.1.1-2
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.20.0-1
ii  libavcodec57         7:3.1.1-3
ii  libavformat57        7:3.1.1-3
ii  libavutil55          7:3.1.1-3
ii  libc6                2.23-4
ii  libcairo2            1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcups2             2.1.4-4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.10.8-1
ii  libexpat1            2.2.0-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.4
ii  libfreetype6         2.6.3-3+b1
ii  libgcc1              1:6.1.1-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.34.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.48.1-2
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.30-4
ii  libharfbuzz0b        1.2.7-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.5.0-1
ii  libnettle6           3.2-1
ii  libnspr4             2:4.12-2
ii  libnss3              2:3.23-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.40.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.1-1
ii  libpci3              1:3.3.1-1.1
ii  libpulse0            9.0-1.1
ii  libspeechd2          0.8.4-2
ii  libstdc++6           6.1.1-10
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.2-1
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.6-1
ii  libxml2              2.9.4+dfsg1-1
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.9-2
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-4
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  x11-utils            7.7+3
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.1-1

Versions of packages chromium recommends:
ii  fonts-liberation  1.07.4-1

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

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