Re: Firefox 26: occasional freeze with Youtube Webm videos

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 05:55:59PM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> A little update in this issue. Recently the above mentioned solution
> doesn't even work anymore. It used to work in FF 26 but no longer in
> FF 28.
> 
> All dependencies are respected and I have upgraded pulseaudio and
> avahidaemon. Could that be the cause?

I don't know what changed, but during boot I now see:
Apr 21 14:52:40 yt dbus[825]: [system] Activating service 
name='org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit' (using servicehelper)
Apr 21 14:52:40 yt dbus[825]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit'
Apr 21 14:52:40 yt console-kit-daemon[97]: WARNING: Error waiting for native 
console 7 activation: Device not configured 
Apr 21 14:52:40 yt console-kit-daemon[97]: WARNING: Error waiting for native 
console 6 activation: Device not configured 
Apr 21 14:52:43 yt pulseaudio[454]: [(null)] core-error.c: Unable to convert 
error string to locale, filtering.
Apr 21 14:52:43 yt pulseaudio[454]: [oss] core-error.c: Unable to convert error 
string to locale, filtering.
Apr 21 14:52:43 yt pulseaudio[454]: [(null)] module.c: module-hal-detect is 
deprecated: Please use module-udev-detect instead of module-hal-detect!
Apr 21 14:52:43 yt pulseaudio[454]: [(null)] module-hal-detect.c: Couldn't 
connect to hald: (null): (null)
Apr 21 14:52:43 yt pulseaudio[292]: [(null)] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

Even though hald is supposedly running:
# /etc/rc.d/hal status
hal is running as pid 570.

 Thomas