1115792 - Firefox crashes in libgstflump3dec.so every time after start on Ubuntu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 981869

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[es_uomikim]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Build ID: 20141127111021

Steps to reproduce:

Every time I open firefox it crashes, then it starts again and works fine.

What I did:
- it was a fresh install after reinstalling system (Ubuntu 14.04)
- because of crashes I reinstalled firefox with cleaning all the configuration files, profile files, cache, all the local files connected to flash etc. literally every local file connected in any way to firefox
- the bug appears with and without extensions enabled
- it happends after fresh install of firefox, when all the local files were cleared up (like described above)
- every crash report says the same that it is a problem with libgstflump3dec.so, so, I installed: libgstreamer0.10-dev, libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev, ubuntu-restricted-extras and gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg from ppa:mc3man/trusty-media (the last one as described in here: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/get-firefox-and-phonon-gstreamer-to.html), but none of this helped.

Crash Report ID's:
bp-ee7e008d-87c5-4923-9b09-1960f2141226
bp-440c9542-3b62-4a48-8eda-a3ccc2141226	
bp-0cae96af-5f25-4ef8-b94f-e20342141226


Actual results:

Firefox crashes after start.

Comment 1

[es_uomikim]

The thing that seems to help is setting: media.gstreamer.enabled to "flase".

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Have you tried using an official copy of Firefox from Mozilla, rather than the one from Ubuntu, and does that help?

Comment 3

[es_uomikim]

I used only the Ubuntu version. Now, after turning media.gstreamer.enabled to "flase", it works fine.

Comment 4

[u194118]

I've been living with this bug for a few months, Firefox crashes everytime I start Firefox.
I've submitted hundreds of crash reports...
What could I do to help with this ?

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Edwin, do you know what kind of info would be useful here and/or what's causing this?

(In reply to jcleval from comment #4)
> I've been living with this bug for a few months, Firefox crashes everytime I
> start Firefox.
> I've submitted hundreds of crash reports...
> What could I do to help with this ?

Listing some of the crash report IDs to ensure it's the same issue as the reporter is seeing would be helpful. Besides that, can you use apt/synaptic/aptitude/... to list which gstreamer packages you have installed, and include that list here?

Comment 6

[u194118]

Sure.

Here are some of them :

bp-2185d811-0be1-4fc1-8b7b-e15022150209
bp-31fd46d6-8925-4eaa-8cdd-1e3a12150204
bp-b8a42ada-2555-4ac1-9ff2-d35db2150127
bp-8d82d631-ad7e-4973-b057-a4faf2150109

And here is the list of the installed gstreamer packages  (obtained with "dpkg --get-selections | grep gst")

bluez-gstreamer					install
gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10			install
gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0			install
gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10				install
gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0				install
gstreamer-tools					install
gstreamer0.10-alsa:i386				install
gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3:i386			install
gstreamer0.10-gconf:i386			install
gstreamer0.10-gnonlin				install
gstreamer0.10-nice:i386				install
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad:i386			install
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386			install
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps			install
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386			install
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly:i386			install
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:i386			install
gstreamer0.10-tools				install
gstreamer0.10-x:i386				install
gstreamer1.0-alsa:i386				install
gstreamer1.0-clutter				install
gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3:i386			install
gstreamer1.0-libav:i386				install
gstreamer1.0-nice:i386				install
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:i386			install
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad:i386		install
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers:i386	install
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:i386			install
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps			install
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:i386			install
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:i386			install
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:i386			install
gstreamer1.0-tools				install
gstreamer1.0-x:i386				install
libclutter-gst-1.0-0:i386			install
libclutter-gst-2.0-0:i386			install
libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0:i386		install
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:i386		install
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386		install
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386		install
libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0:i386		install
libgstreamer0.10-0:i386				install
libgstreamer1.0-0:i386				install
libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer		install
phonon-backend-gstreamer:i386			install
phonon-backend-gstreamer-common:i386		install
python-gst0.10					install

Comment 7

[u194118]

I've just been looking at my old crash reports, and I found out that the first of the these crashes occured  mid June with the release of Firefox 30.

Comment 8

[u194118]

Hum.. from Firefox 30's release note (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/30.0/releasenotes/)

Support for GStreamer 1.0 (see 806917 for build configuration)

Comment 9

[Edwin Flores [inactive from 2016-12-01] [:eflores] [:edwin]]

Sorting this out soon. Had a patch waiting for review for... a while... now in bug 981869 to blacklist flump3dec; will rebase and land some time in the next week or so.