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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu Yakkety)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu (Ubuntu Yakkety)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  No audio from webbrowser-app in 16.10

Status in Oxide:
  Invalid
Status in apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu source package in Yakkety:
  New
Status in webbrowser-app source package in Yakkety:
  New

Bug description:
  [Test case]
  Load the browser on 16.10 in either a U8 or U7 session.
  Browse to YouTube.
  Play a video.
  Notice there is no sound. Nor does the browser show in the sound menu/panel.

  TLDR: this is an apparmor confinement issue: on yakkety pulse audio
  needs write access to /{run,dev}/shm/pulse-shm*, which is being denied
  by the audio and microphone policy groups. The fix consists in
  punching an additional hole in the generated apparmor profile for
  webbrowser-app.

  [Regression potential]
  Low. As the fix consists in weakening the apparmor profile for webbrowser-app, the only concerns should be security-related. The change was ack’d by Jamie Strandboge (see comment #11 in this bug report).
  It is not anticipated that this change would make the browser’s functionality regress.

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