nspluginviewer crashes when viewing flash files in Konqueror (SIGSEGV signal)

Vetruvet · 04-14-2008, 09:05 PM

Anytime I go to a website with Flash content, Konqueror will give the crash handler message when I leave the page.

I've read somewhere that you need to link Firefox's flash plugin to konqueror's (maybe I said that backwards). Would that help? If so, where do I put the link (I know where FF keeps its plugins)?

If that doesn't solve the problem, how should I go about solving it?
Do you need any additional info from me?

Thanks

dinolinux · 04-15-2008, 02:26 PM

What you are experiencing is a well known issue and has been discussed over and over again on various bugtrackers and mailing lists. The bug lies in GTK+2 version 1.10.something and above. The fix is a one-line patch which you can find on the internet. Depending on your distribution (binary or source) you can recompile GTK+2 with the patch or tell your distribution to fix it.

This is really GTK's job since they're the ones who released the code, but this bug has been floating around since September and still they haven't bothered to fix it.

Vetruvet · 04-16-2008, 09:50 AM

Could you point me in the direction of that patch?

Thanks

dinolinux · 04-16-2008, 11:36 AM

The patch is as follows:

Code:

--- gtk/gtkclipboard.c  2007-08-31 16:52:48.000000000 +0200
+++ gtk/gtkclipboard.c  2007-08-31 16:53:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -287,6 +287,7 @@
 gtk_clipboard_get_for_display (GdkDisplay *display,
                               GdkAtom     selection)
 {
+  g_return_val_if_fail (display != NULL, NULL);
   g_return_val_if_fail (GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display), NULL);
   g_return_val_if_fail (!display->closed, NULL);

(Apply it to the GTK+2 base directory before compiling)

Vetruvet · 04-17-2008, 05:45 AM

Unfortunately, that didn't work. Maybe the patch is only for certain version(s) of GTK+?

I downloaded the latest source from their website, added the line to gtk/gtkclipboard.c, and did:
./configure
make
make install

Then, I went to youtube in Konqueror, and got the same SIGSEGV crash message when I navigated away from the page.

dinolinux · 04-17-2008, 11:35 AM

Could be because your flash is too new. Versions above 9.0.48.0 seem to be broken. 9.0.115.0 seems to work in Gentoo, but I don't know how they do it. Try looking for some Gentoo patches for GTK+2, flash and kdebase/kdelibs.