This is not a PulseAudio bug. Some application is refusing to play
nicely; instead that app is using the audio device exclusively, and your
audio hardware is incapable of native multiopen.
If you're using the non-Free Adobe Flash plugin, you need to ensure that
you're using the correct Ubuntu conf
>From the bug description it seems that this isn't a Firefox issue but a
audio device issue. So I have removed the Firefox packaged and added the
audio device of the reporter, pulseaudio.
** Also affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (
Here is a bit more info with entries from the Syslog. More
experimentation has shown that there is some sort of relationship with
firefox a recent update seemed to fix things somewhat
With Firefox up, but not playing sounds after a clean reboot all audio
devices work, but once sound is played
