On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Ed Donahue liberaled@gmail.com wrote:
My Firefox crashed and I lost sound, is there a way to release the lock Firefox had on sound when it crashed? I was streaming sirius radio at the time of the crash.
Is there a daemon I can restart? I could just reboot but I'm not windows admin :) I logged out of the GUI then back in, would restarting X clear it up?
Could be something with MPlayer or Gstreamer or one of the many other packages for multimedia? We listen to radio stations on streamaudio.com but haven't had this happen to us. Did you run a check, to test the sound on your box, to be sure you are still getting sound out of your speakers/headphones? I don't think there are any daemons involved here, but maybe something is corrupted. Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable will reply to you. Has Firefox crashed like that previously, when you were doing the same thing?