111429 - Flash Player in linux causes mozilla to exit

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Fred Tsang]

When visiting any flash site, Mozilla exits (ie. no crash, the program just
quits).  This is using the latest flash player (from about:plugins; Shockwave
Flash 5.0 r47) for netscape (libflashplayer.so), on a Redhat 7.1 PC, with kernel
build 2.4.12-ac5.  I couldn't find anyone with similar experiences.

Comment 1

[Diego Biurrun]

Fred, did you try a fresh profile? Move your .mozilla directory somewhere safe
and try again. What build are you using? Please try with 0.9.6 or a later
nightly build.

Comment 2

[Fred Tsang]

Hi Diego,
Just tried that, and I still get the same result.  Forgot to mention I'm using
0.9.6.

Comment 3

[Diego Biurrun]

Still no problems on the page with 2001121715.  0.9.7 will be out in a few days.
 Please try that build and report back if you still crash.  Also please try to
get a talkback enabled build and provide us with a talkback ID.  Thanks.

Comment 4

[Sean Camanyag]

Is this using a 0.9.6 binary package or from a source tarball?

If you're compiling, are you using gcc 3? I was having that same problem with
Flash, where visiting any site with flash-content would make mozilla just quit
without any errors. 

I posted a bug about java-vm not working and it turns out that the solution
someone posted, which was to use gcc 2.9x instead of gcc3, also solved that same
problem with Flash that you describe. (See bug 116444 for explanation of how
gcc3 was the cause of the problem) 

Try compiling with gcc 2.9x.

Comment 5

[Harold Tomlinson]

Greetings:

  I have not built Mozilla yet, I will once I finish upgrading some other
software to support some funky hardware, but...  I wanted to say that I have
this behaviour with Netscape 6.1 and 6.2 but only on one of my computers.  

  I am running:
Netscape 6.2.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 

and (on all but the machine in question):

Shockwave Flash

    File name: /usr/local/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 5.0 r47

Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes



  All boxes are running Mandrake Linux 2.2.17-21mdk.  The machine that has the
problem is running the SMP version.  Might this be the cause?  Most everything
else is consistent between the machines.  What varies, varies on all (host name,
memory size, processor speed, hardware type).  What is consistent, is consistent
for all (user id, mount points, etc).  All apps were installed from the same
places at the same times on all machines.  Flash was removed from the Dual
Processor system because it caused Netscape to exit.

  I hope this helps.  


HaroldT

[e-mail]

Comment 6

[Fred Tsang]

Just tried mozilla 0.9.7 (build 2001122108), and all appears well again.  Just
some info:

kernel 2.4.12-ac5 with SMP
original install was redhat 7.1
using gtk+ 1.2.9-4 (just from a rpm -q -l)

If you require any more info, please let me know.  Great job on fixing this up
(even if by accident) ;-)

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

oh well, verif.