Bug#585149: iceweasel: No sound in video/audio with native iceweasel audio support

[Adrian Siemieniak]

Hi,

I may by facing the same error (or at least similar one). In my case I'm 
unable to play audio on Iceweasel (10.0.1-1) on two different XWindow 
sessions.

How to reproduce (I've checked it on two Debian installations):
Run Iceweasel as a one user, check youtube html5 video - it's working 
(audio/video). Now start another xwindow sessions (startx -- :1) as
different user, run Iceweasel and html5 video won't event start to play 
- just circle is spinning on the middle.

I've checked with just ogg audio - result is the same. While flash video 
are working ok. Other applications (opera/chrome/alsaplayer/amarok) can 
work simultaneously on both users/xwindow sessions.

On the beginning I thought it's pulseaudio - and made system wide 
pulseserver configuration, everything worked ok, just I've stucked with 
IW (Iceweasel). After few hours of fight I gave up with pulseaudio and 
moved back on Alsa - and surprise - is that it's still not working..

Really strange thing is that even if I terminate IW on the first 
account/xsession - second does still not work (even if both are 
restarted). Xsession restart does not help either! It looks like that 
first user that runs IW have audio/video only :/ - restart of system 
helps (I've checked few times).

ii  iceweasel         10.0.1-1   Web browser based on Firefox
ii  iceweasel-l10n-pl 1:10.0.1-1 Polish language package for Iceweasel
ii  xulrunner-10.0    10.0.1-1   XUL + XPCOM application runner

# cat /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc
# which /dev/dsp wrapper to use
ICEWEASEL_DSP="none"

# uname -a
Linux sauron 3.2.1-vs2.3.2.5 #4 SMP Tue Jan 24 22:49:25 CET 2012 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

I'm not sure how long this problem is present since second user uses 
mostly flash and could not seen the problem before. I've recently 
reinstalled this system to 64bit version - so it's quite fresh. But I've 
reproduced it on another system (also sid/64bit) - much more mature (few 
years of updates).

I did also some straces and It looks like second IW does net even read 
asound.conf (like the first one).

-- 
Regards,
Adrian