Firefox and opera freeze after update.

MillTek · 2009-01-21 14:53:34

Hi,
I updated he system last night and since then neither of firefox, firefox nightly or opera will play and video. I tried Cnn and Youtube. Both cause the browsers to freeze totally. It's not KDE because I also tried under E17 and it happens there as well. Anyone got any ideas??

BTW, I run pacman Suy daily so it's some thing that was dropped into release yesterday.

Thanks

Xiong Chiamiov · 2009-01-21 19:13:48

Is it only flash that you're having problems with, or all multimedia? Seems like probably a problem with either flash or mplayer.

MillTek · 2009-01-21 20:15:49

No Xiong. Radio stations streaming on Realplayer dont work as well. It seems like all multi-media.

So, flash, mplayer and realplayer don't work. They did until before yesterdays pacman -Suy.

akira86 · 2009-01-21 20:22:48

Have a look at :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 43#p484143

MillTek · 2009-01-21 20:41:58

Duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Skottish!!

MillTek · 2009-01-23 20:49:28

OK. I tried loading x264-git but any video over the internet still freezes the browser (firefox and/or opera) I know that the x264 problem has been placed on the bug list but is there any way someone could tell me how to get around this?? Is there somewhere I can get the x264 that was there previously? I cleaned my cache a few weeks ago so I don't have it on my machine??

Thanks

jackphil · 2009-01-27 13:39:52

MillTek wrote:

OK. I tried loading x264-git but any video over the internet still freezes the browser (firefox and/or opera)
...

So the x264 doesn't be confirmed? I have the same probem: any flash video freeze the firefox, it is so boring

MillTek · 2009-01-27 13:46:42

There was an update yesterday to the kernel and mplayer that solved the problem. Try doing a pacman -Suy.

flowheat · 2009-01-30 03:27:25

My system is completely up to date and I'm using x264-git and I still have this problem. Any other ideas?

Edit

Updated kernel 2.6.28.3-1 today(02/02/09) and the problem just disappeared. Strange. Perhaps a kernel rebuild is what does the trick?

Edit2:

Nevermind. Happening again.

Edit3:

Ok fixed it finally. Turned out i was missing some sound modules in rc.conf. Used hwdetect to get the appropriate ones.

Last edited by flowheat (2009-02-05 12:30:10)

sands · 2009-04-20 02:11:22

I did an upgrade yesterday. I am not able to view flash videos. I followed this guide for multiple sound

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/All … nd_at_once

Have you guys got the issue solved??

Edit:
I was playing with the packages removing and installing them.. Somehow it got fixed. [:)]

Last edited by sands (2009-04-20 20:42:01)

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#1 2009-01-21 14:53:34

Firefox and opera freeze after update.

#2 2009-01-21 19:13:48

Re: Firefox and opera freeze after update.

#3 2009-01-21 20:15:49

Re: Firefox and opera freeze after update.

#4 2009-01-21 20:22:48

Re: Firefox and opera freeze after update.

#5 2009-01-21 20:41:58

Re: Firefox and opera freeze after update.

#6 2009-01-23 20:49:28

Re: Firefox and opera freeze after update.

#7 2009-01-27 13:39:52

Re: Firefox and opera freeze after update.

#8 2009-01-27 13:46:42

Re: Firefox and opera freeze after update.

#9 2009-01-30 03:27:25

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#10 2009-04-20 02:11:22

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