1004631 - Flashplayer plugin hangs and crashes on Linux

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(External Software Affecting Firefox Graveyard :: Flash (Adobe), defect)

Description

[Underpass]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140421221237

Steps to reproduce:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (Debian)
Flash Player plugin version  11.2.202.356

1) Visit youtube.com
2) Enter some search terms (e.g. "the cure - pictures of you")


Actual results:

The page freezes for several dozen seconds before the search begins. Clicking any of the search results produce another freeze. Sometimes (not always) a crash is dumped:

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-hr-20140501-bcc92ecd-3cc6-4787-8c95-965d947904e9


Expected results:

The search should be performed smoothly. 

The problem doesn't occur if the Flash Plugin is disabled from the Addons tab and doesn't occur in Firefox 29.

Comment 1

[Underpass]

Launching Firefox from a terminal, it logs this message:

###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel::Call] Error: Channel timeout: cannot send/recv

Comment 2

[sjw]

WFM

Comment 3

[Ian Stakenvicius]

Cannot be certain if this is the exact same bug or not, as there isn't much info in the original post, BUT:

for Firefox-30 and Firefox-31beta, i have reports of a similar issue.  It seems to present itself in relation to there being flash-capable hardware acceleration support (ie, vdpau) being present on the machine in question.  For this report, the flash player plugin itself does not actually crash, however firefox becomes unresponsive, and a ton of "sched_yield()" messages are occuring (on crash dump? not sure what generates the messages themselves).  The end result is very similar tho ; a page that has, say, a bunch of flash ads, locks up competely and nothing really renders properly.  However, opening up a single flash-based content page, ie, http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ou6_MkIvKOo?wmode=direct&hd=1 , the video itself is fine but the browser crashes/locks up as soon as you try and do anything else.

Not reproducible on firefox-29 and earlier.  Plugin is 11.2.202.378 .

Comment 4

[Underpass]

This problem was solved updating video drivers on Linux.