Flash issues on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
 

I am running (k)ubuntu 12.04 and keep getting flash crashes. No matter what browser I use (i prefer FF) all flash movies, clips etc keep crashing atleast once. I keep having to refresh over and over again untill the movie does play.

I am running flash 11.2.r202

Can someone pls help?

Are you on a 64 bit system, using 64 bit browsers and 64 bit flash?
If so, what processor model have you got?

no I'm on a 32bit system

Then have you tried launching the browser from a terminal and looking for printed out errors when flash crashes, if any?

ok this is the error i get

(plugin-container:7396): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_pixmap_foreign_new_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

(plugin-container:7396): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed

Are you perhaps running the browser as root (or running it with sudo)?

no I am running it normal

Ok here are some further error msg from a crash

xcb] Unknown request in queue while dequeuing
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
plugin-container: ../../src/xcb_io.c:178: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.
WARNING: pipe error (47): Connection reset by peer: file /build/buildd/firefox-14.0.1+build1/build-tree/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 419

WARNING: pipe error (47): Connection reset by peer: file /build/buildd/firefox-14.0.1+build1/build-tree/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 419
[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
plugin-container: ../../src/xcb_io.c:273: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed.
###!!! ABORT: Request 0.0: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation): file /build/buildd/firefox-14.0.1+build1/build-tree/mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 190
###!!! ABORT: Request 0.0: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation): file /build/buildd/firefox-14.0.1+build1/build-tree/mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 190
WARNING: pipe error (100): Connection reset by peer: file /build/buildd/firefox-14.0.1+build1/build-tree/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 419

Are you using firefox from your distro main repository or from other sources?
It seems like it has some trouble with the libxcb you have installed on your system...

Ok i goggled around some and found 2 relevant posts.

1. In the past there seems to have been an issue with FF4/5, the flash plugin and Synaptic. ---> I uninstalled the Synaptic manager
2. There was some issue with OpenGL and the LibGl.so ----> I installed the libGl1-mesa-swx11 and unstalled some of the old OpenGL files

BTW as I stated earlier I have the issue with every browser not just FF. So no its not a FF issue.

What CPU are you using: Intel or AMD?

intel why?

Flash 11 doesn't work on most 32-bit AMD chips, not on Pentium 3 or older, but that's obviously not your problem. Actually, I wasn't paying attention: if it had been the problem, Flash wouldn't have crashed, just sat doing nothing. It still might be worth trying a different version, though.

Have you tried using those browser using a clean user account (create a new user and try from there)?