Hello, Just got a `OnMediaSinkAudioError` Whereas no other program was playing sound. But not at the startup - I didn't check if this changes anything, it shouldn't Situation after https://bugs.gentoo.org/752387 is not so clear Because it was probably working in 2023-07-05 https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6f52fc46e933f32f68a6a00cddffbff41be88fc3 /usr/lib64/firefox/libpulse.so.0: broken symbolic link to ../apulse/libpulse.so.0 --- Ok, found it https://bugs.gentoo.org/760774 But It was reported as an invalid apulse bug Both firefox and thunderbird ebuilds are forcing USE=sdk and then preinst symlinks with paths to libs assuming a -sdk install Is the following USE configuration meaningful to you? apulse? ( >=media-sound/apulse-0.1.12-r4[sdk=] ) pulseaudio? ( || ( media-libs/libpulse >=media-sound/apulse-0.1.12-r4[sdk] ) ) So where you do `../apulse` You can (then) do a condition based on the sdk presence and just `../` when sdk is enabled; and you need to set myaudiobackends that would otherwise be alsa to pulseaudio even for apulse new flag; At least, this is what humble me would do, have a nice day :)
[sdk=] is wrong, I meant to say [-sdk]
Indeed, I see apulse will probably not work at all in our firefox currently. Even the launcher is missing parts needed for it. apulse[sdk] is supposed to completely replace pulseaudio, it has all conflicting files and can't be installed at the same time as pulseaudio. apulse[-sdk] installs libraries under /usr/lib64/apulse so it's usable in runtime with hacks, like what's done in firefox-bin ebuild, but you probably can't build firefox with apulse support when using that. So for source-built firefox I'd say we need to depend on apulse[sdk]. This is something I'll most look closer at during the next version bump.
Thanks for taking care of this > you probably can't build firefox with apulse support when using -sdk Uhm, is it hard to force -DHAVE_PULSEAUDIO after configure? (I've never built firefox without the help of the precious ebuild) Since it's using dlopen, it's not a linked dependency... And you don't want to force it if jack is enabled > the launcher is missing parts needed for it What is missing? (I guess I'll see) Aside from setting ``APULSE_PLAYBACK_DEVICE=plughw:0,0`` and APULSE_CAPTURE_DEVICE -- that's user configuration (and fixing the symlinks) I did nothingelse to get audio working (with sdk) I also noticed libxul still links to libasound
I need to grab my mind around this again. So apulse[sdk] is a full 1:1 replacement for pulseaudio. So at simplest we could just always depend on either libpulse, or apulse[sdk]. But to my knowledge it's not possible to have a working, eh, let's say "full desktop experience" using apulse[sdk] because not every package has dependency-support for it. Therefore it'd be nice if firefox-bin also accepted apulse[-sdk] as a dependency, but that then requires these ugly hacks in the ebuilds and the launcher. So I don't know what to do here. I'd like to get rid of the pulseaudio use flag and just depend on libpulse OR apulse[sdk]. But I'm afraid there's someone using apulse[-sdk] and will face a hard decision between Firefox and rest-of-their-system. Maybe there could be a transitional period where both apulse[+-sdk] will work for a while, and let's see where that takes us.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=62917b785d9fa7c4923fa251025f99a70392a471 commit 62917b785d9fa7c4923fa251025f99a70392a471 Author: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-10-29 09:59:39 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-10-29 11:27:37 +0000 www-client/firefox-bin: add 132.0 - simplify logic used when using apulse instead of pulseaudio/pipewire. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/941873 Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> www-client/firefox-bin/Manifest | 99 +++++++ www-client/firefox-bin/firefox-bin-132.0.ebuild | 364 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 463 insertions(+)
