244461 - mozilla hangs if it's not able to make any output on the console / tty / xterm

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Stephan Bothur]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

visiting websites which use flash animations makes my mozilla stop responding if
i launched it into the background ('mozilla &') before or giving it any other
possibility to print errors. usually i start mozilla by using the 'F2'-button as
a shortcut so that it pops up directly and not by typing 'mozilla' in my xterm.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Bug occurs by following these steps (installed flashplayer-plugin is required): 

1. start mozilla by using shortcut on keyboard (e.g. F2-button) so that there's
no way to see any output
2. visit website that uses flash animations (e.g. www.macromedia.com)

bug doesn't occur by doing this:

1. start mozilla by _typing_ 'mozilla' (or whatever your mozilla-binary might
by' in console / tty / xterm
2. visiting website that uses flash animations
3. you can see output in term an mozilla does not crash
Actual Results:  
Mozilla stopped responding

Expected Results:  
Display website and stay executable

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

(that's no crash, it's a hang)

do you have any audio-playing applications started? if so, try exiting them
before starting mozilla

also, what's the version of your flash plugin? (use help/about plugins to check)

Comment 2

[Stephan Bothur]

fine, it's a hang ;)

there are no audio-playing applications running while using mozilla.
i'm using flashplayer-plugin vers. 6.

Comment 3

[tenthumbs]

If a process launched in the background could listen or talk to the user's
terminal it could do things like capture keystrokes (think passwords) or rewrite
what the user sees. Long ago this was decreed bad so no unix-like system allows
it. I think that's what you're seeing. Bug 147274 has more info on this.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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