Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6
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 Reporter:  tries |  Owner:  tbb-team
 Type:  defect| Status:  needs_information
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Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |Version:
 Severity:  Normal| Resolution:
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Comment (by strix):

 In Slackware 14.2 stable (which runs pulseaudio 9.0), the default install
 of Tor Browser 9.0.1 (from tor-browser SBo, which uses the pre-built
 package from dist.torproject.org) will crash the pulseaudio user daemon.
 Usually, the user will need to kill the daemon after closing Tor Browser
 so a functioning daemon can be spawned for other applications.

 The fix in Slackware 14.2 is nearly identical to what the submitter of
 this ticket suggested for CentOS 6:
 {{{
 $ cp -pf $HOME/.esd_auth $HOME/.tor-browser/INSTALL/Browser
 $ cp -pfr $HOME/.config/pulse/ $HOME/.tor-browser/INSTALL/Browser
 }}}
 (The cookie file is copied with the pulse directory.)

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6
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Comment (by pili):

 #32583 is a duplicate.

 Anyone following this ticket may want to check out
 (comment:6:ticket:32583)

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6
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Comment (by arkadiy):

 Replying to [comment:11 dodonnell]:
 > > But my best guess to get around this would be to place a symlink to
 the .pulse directory in the real home directory - if this directory should
 exists in the users $HOME (similar to what has been done in #9353).
 >
 > I did this. But instead of symlinking the files, I copied them. As I
 sandbox the Tor browser process.
 The same problem on Debian bullseye/sid. Copying the files does no favor.

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6
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Comment (by dodonnell):

 > But my best guess to get around this would be to place a symlink to the
 .pulse directory in the real home directory - if this directory should
 exists in the users $HOME (similar to what has been done in #9353).

 I did this. But instead of symlinking the files, I copied them. As I
 sandbox the Tor browser process.

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6
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 Reporter:  tries |  Owner:  tbb-team
 Type:  defect| Status:  needs_information
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 Severity:  Normal| Resolution:
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Changes (by gk):

 * status:  new => needs_information


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:9 dodonnell]:
 > I'm also inflicted with this error. My on a Parrot GNU/Linux 4.5, with
 Tor Browser 8.0.7, and pulseaudio 12.2. I tried copying the folder
 `~/.config/pulse` to Tor's respective fake home folder as it wasn't there
 originally. Still, it had no effect.

 I wonder whether that's actually the same bug as the OP had. Have you
 tried the steps in comment:7 to work around your problem?

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6
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Comment (by dodonnell):

 I'm also inflicted with this error. My on a Parrot GNU/Linux 4.5, with Tor
 Browser 8.0.7, and pulseaudio 12.2. I tried copying the folder
 `~/.config/pulse` to Tor's respective fake home folder as it wasn't there
 originally. Still, it had no effect.

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6 (was: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio))

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio) on CentOS 6
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 Reporter:  tries |  Owner:  tbb-team
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Changes (by gk):

 * status:  needs_information => new


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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)
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Comment (by tries):

 The presense/requirement of the .pulse directory seems to depend on the
 pulseaudio version.
   * CentOS 6 with pulseaudio 0.9.21 does have these directories
   * CentOS 7 with pulseaudio 10.0 does NOT have them (there, things are
 located in $HOME/.config/pulse/

 However, audio with tor-browser on CentOS 7 works fine, even without any
 links/copies of pulseadio related files. I tested 6.0, 7.5, 7.0, 7.5 and
 current 8.0 versions of tor-browser - my audio issue with CentOS 6 exists
 with all these versions (clean install of tor-browser).

 I have to admit, currently I have no idea why my audio did work at all
 before...
 But my best guess to get around this would be to place a symlink to the
 .pulse directory in the real home directory - if this directory should
 exists in the users $HOME (similar to what has been done in #9353).

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)
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 Reporter:  tries |  Owner:  tbb-team
 Type:  defect| Status:  needs_information
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:5 tries]:
 > It means:
 > - It did initially work out of the box, but the initial installation was
 quite some time ago with an older version of tor-browser.
 > - Since then, I did online updates (keeping the content of the fake
 HOME)
 > - fresh installation of the current tor-browser fails to produce audio
 (until I copy those pulseaudio files)
 >
 > So I would have to go back in time and figure out what ancient version
 of tor browser was still OK. Unfortunately, the official download location
 does not provide old installation packages - is there an archive
 somewhere? Then I would take the time and check with old versions.

 Thanks! https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/torbrowser/ has
 all older releases. I guess a good starting point for testing could be
 7.5.6.

 That said on my Linux box sound is fine without having all the hidden
 pulseaudio related folders in my `Browser` directory. So, hrm...

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)
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Comment (by tries):

 It means:
 - It did initially work out of the box, but the initial installation was
 quite some time ago with an older version of tor-browser.
 - Since then, I did online updates (keeping the content of the fake HOME)
 - fresh installation of the current tor-browser fails to produce audio
 (until I copy those pulseaudio files)

 So I would have to go back in time and figure out what ancient version of
 tor browser was still OK. Unfortunately, the official download location
 does not provide old installation packages - is there an archive
 somewhere? Then I would take the time and check with old versions.

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:2 tries]:
 > As the content of mentioned pulseaudio files seems mostly static, once
 audio is working it will be working. I had audio working before with this
 exact Tor-Browser installation, but it stopped after fiddling around with
 some pulseaudio stuff on my system.

 Does this mean audio in Tor Browser worked out-of-the box previously on
 that system but does not do so since you played around with pulseaudio on
 your system/or got a pulseaudio update?

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)
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 Reporter:  tries |  Owner:  tbb-team
 Type:  defect| Status:  needs_information
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Comment (by tries):

 One way to reproduce this (existing installation where audio is working):
 - in the Tor-Browser installation filder (.../Browser/) remove the
 pulsaudio related files & directories
 `rm -rf  .pulse-cookie .pulse .esd_auth`
 - start some other application that plays audio (and starts an pulseaudiod
 instance), e.g. xmms
 - ensure that audio is played OK
 - start tor-browser
 - go to some URL that plays some audio content (e.g. /www.audiocheck.net)
 - tor-browser tries to launch an pulseaudio instance (which fails as there
 is already a running instance) and recreates the above removed files.
 - the above described error is triggered (warnings about "OpenCubeb()
 failed to init", etc)
 - from now on, audio will always fail to play.

 After copying the above files from the real users HOME to .../Browser/ and
 restarting tor-browser,  audio playback is working again.


 I also tried this with a fresh install:
 - download tor-browser-linux64-8.0.5_en-US.tar.xz
 - untar
 - start tor-browser
 Results in no audio. Which makes sense and confirms my findings above (as
 the tar archive contains no pulseaudio config files).

 So the question actually should be: why did it work at all before? Might
 be something CentOS / pulseaudio version specific?

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)
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 Reporter:  tries |  Owner:  tbb-team
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Comment (by tries):

 Sry, should have included info about versions.

 OS: CentOS 6.10, 64bit
 Tor Browser: 8.0.5 (has been kept up-to-date via the integrated update
 feature)
 Download was from www.torproject.org.

 As the content of mentioned pulseaudio files seems mostly static, once
 audio is working it will be working. I had audio working before with this
 exact Tor-Browser installation, but it stopped after fiddling around with
 some pulseaudio stuff on my system.

 I will try if I can reproduce this situation.

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Re: [tor-bugs] #29360 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)

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#29360: Tor-Browser Linux: no audio playback (pulseaudio)
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 Reporter:  tries |  Owner:  tbb-team
 Type:  defect| Status:  needs_information
 Priority:  Medium|  Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |Version:
 Severity:  Normal| Resolution:
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Changes (by gk):

 * status:  new => needs_information


Comment:

 Thanks for the detailed bug report. I wonder why you are the only one
 reporting this. Which Linux flavor is that? And which Tor Browser version?
 Where did you get your Tor Browser from?

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