firefox 2.0.0.9 crashes insanely with any flash plugin

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-11-2007, 08:35 AM

Anyone else getting these kind of crashes ? It crashes with flash player 9 plugin, and even swfdec, which I installed in an attempt to stop the crashing. I think it's definitely a bug with FF. Right ? I keep sending those crash reports through the FF crash manager, I hope that'll be enough.

I think this is ridiculous, what is causing these crashes ? There have been reports of flash-related crashes for a very long time. I want to get to the bottom of this. It is really pissing me off

WebGraphics · 11-11-2007, 09:03 AM

I'm not sure if this helps but I am running FF 2.0.0.6 with adobe flash player 9 and I haven't had any crashes.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-11-2007, 09:11 AM

I found something interesting. I attached gdb onto running firefox-bin, to see what kind of error messages I would get. Well here they are:

For swfdec:

Code:

rogram received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1223784752 (LWP 9262)]
0xb22cec75 in composite_in_argb_sse () from /usr/lib/liboil-0.3.so.0

For flash player 9:

Code:

ALSA lib pcm_rate.c:1381:(snd_pcm_rate_open) Cannot find rate converter

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1224132912 (LWP 9426)]
0xb020dd54 in snd_pcm_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so

It is interesting to see that libasound.so is involved ... that's the alsa library, right ? Maybe I'll try to install a new alsa version and see if it helps ?

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-11-2007, 09:49 AM

Ok, I found what the problem was. I recently added a line to '~/.asoundrc' that read:

Code:

defaults.pcm.rate_converter "samplerate_best"

as suggested in a post on here in an attempt to improve sound quality ... bad idea. This was what was causing the crash. I deleted '~/.asoundrc' and the problem is no more. How silly, a single line in a text file can cause this crash.

Problem solved, for me at least.

Alien Bob · 11-11-2007, 10:54 AM

I found that web sites with flash made my firefox and seamonkey browsers crash after upgrading to the latest -current.
Re-installing the flashplayer plugin fixed this issue for me.

Eric

mattydee · 11-12-2007, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Ok, I found what the problem was. I recently added a line to '~/.asoundrc' that read:

Code:

defaults.pcm.rate_converter "samplerate_best"

as suggested in a post on here in an attempt to improve sound quality ... bad idea. This was what was causing the crash. I deleted '~/.asoundrc' and the problem is no more. How silly, a single line in a text file can cause this crash.

Problem solved, for me at least.

That was me. Just to be clear however, I did not suggest to do this. I reported that this line was causing problems for me, namely crashing the KDE sound system. I also later discovered that that I was having the same problem as you experienced.

I haven't found out how to get this to work and am still looking around. Meanwhile I do this for playing music:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

cp /home/matty/.asoundrc-crap /home/matty/.asoundrc
amarok &
sleep 5
rm /home/matty/.asoundrc

It seems to be working for me.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-13-2007, 03:23 AM

From the looks of it:

Code:

ALSA lib pcm_rate.c:1381:(snd_pcm_rate_open) Cannot find rate converter

it doesn't look like there is support for the rate converter.

digumarty · 11-25-2007, 12:32 AM

Flash 9 under linux uses ALSA to play sound, which is still a work in progress (and probably will be for some time) - I am talking about flash under ALSA and not about ALSA itself.
Depending on your hardware/alsa drivers your flash plugin may or may not crash - unfortunately your's does

A work around may be possible by using OSS to play your flash sound.

Follow the directions here:

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php...port_for_Linux

This works for me on firefox 2.0.0.9 and flash player beta 9.0.64.0 under debian etch.

---- The BUILD instructions have an error use this instead -------------------------------------------

cc -shared -O2 -Wall -Werror -licuuc -lssl flashsupport.c -o libflashsupport.so
ldd libflashsupport.so
sudo cp libflashsupport.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (same directory as your flash plugin)

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PS - I just joined LQ to reply to your question so I hope it works.

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Anyone else getting these kind of crashes ? It crashes with flash player 9 plugin, and even swfdec, which I installed in an attempt to stop the crashing. I think it's definitely a bug with FF. Right ? I keep sending those crash reports through the FF crash manager, I hope that'll be enough.

I think this is ridiculous, what is causing these crashes ? There have been reports of flash-related crashes for a very long time. I want to get to the bottom of this. It is really pissing me off