Public bug reported:
See firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=938361
In the backtraces attached there you can see that libasound.so is causing the
bug.
It seems that the way libasound gets built determines the way firefox
behaves: You get the error only when you use the auto
Stephen, can you reproduce the bug with invoking something else than
getusermedia on firefox?
Please note, there exists a workaround:
mkdir libasound-manual
cd libasound-manual
apt-get source libasound2=1.0.27.2-1ubuntu6
cd alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/
make clean; ./gitcompile ; autoconf; ./configure; make
Stephen, can you reproduce the bug with invoking something else than
getusermedia on firefox?
Please note, there exists a workaround:
mkdir libasound-manual
cd libasound-manual
apt-get source libasound2=1.0.27.2-1ubuntu6
cd alsa-lib-1.0.27.2/
make clean; ./gitcompile ; autoconf; ./configure; make
Somehow the bug disappeared in recent firefox. See bugzilla report for
more information.
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Title:
firefox gets 100% cpu and sometimes segfaults wh
