290682 - Adobe Reader 7.0 Plugin(Linux) Crashes Firefox (and Mozilla)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Plugins Graveyard :: PDF (Adobe), defect)

Description

[Thomas Ronayne]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

With the Adobe Reader 7.0 Plugin installed, any attempt to open any PDF file
(from a web page or a file) crashes Firefox (and Mozilla).

The error message is:
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x090fd8a0 ***
/usr/local/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 159:  5398 Killed                 
"$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Removing nppdf.so from the <path>/firefox/plugins directory and forcing Firefox
to open <path>/acroread as a helper application (executing acroread) appears to
work all right.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Pleas eprovide a Talkback ID from that crash

Comment 2

[Gérard Talbot]

FWIW, I loaded
http://www.ir-group.com/newsletter/pdf/issue3.pdf
in Firefox 1.0.3 rv: 1.7.7 (under XP Pro SP2 though) and Acrobat Reader 7.0.0
2004-12-14 loaded the document in FF and I did not crash.
I upgraded to Acrobat Reader 7.0.1 and did not crash.

adding stackwanted keyword

Comment 3

[Thomas Ronayne]

Reference Talkback ID (1): Glad to, tell me how -- I have to kill the browser
process to get out of it.

Reference (2): This problem is in Linux -- whether it works properly in XP is
not particularly relevant. Both kernels 2.4.29 and 2.6.10 produce the same
result in (separate installations of Slackware 10.1). I did use the beta
software during the testing period, by the way, and it did not exhibit this
problem (others, yes, but not this). Reader 7.0 works fine stand-alone and
appears to work as a helper application; when invoked as a plugin it freezes the
browser (both Mozilla suite and Firefox) and the browser has to be killed. I
have gone back to Acrobat Reader 5.0.10 plugin and it works just fine (as it
always has). And, before anybody asks, yes, I completely removed Acrobat Reader
5 and Acrobat Reader 7 (from /usr/local), all .acrobat and .adobe directories
and nppdf.so from the system while testing both installations. I always copy
nppdf.so to the <mozilla>/plugins directory, logged in as root and start the
browser as root prior to any additional testing. The Acrobat 5 plugin works, the
Reader 7 plugin does not and I have to kill the browser to get out of 7.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Thomas Eckert]

Used the 1.5 Beta of FF and could reproduce the bug. Though, FF is not craching
but, as the 1.1 version before, simply shows a blank page instead of the pdf.

Found following solution: The plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins seem to have
some higher preference then a local plugins folder ~/.mozilla/plugins. The old
version of nppdf.so in the former collides with the new and local 7.0 version.
The first has to be removed for running the new plugin. That is propably not,
what was intended.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

sounds like duplicate of bug 244460.
does this match bug 244460?

Comment 7

[Thomas Ronayne]

Original report from 2004.