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stevenhoneyman

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From: England

Registered: 2014-05-25

Posts: 241

Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

There are too many variables here for me to try and narrow this down easily, so I was wondering if anyone else suffers with the same problem, to see what's in common.

In the past week or so, we've had:

firefox 30.0-1
flashplugin 11.2.202.378-1

updates. Since then, occasionally, all other browser tabs that use flash show a yellow bar saying flash plugin has crashed, click to reload the page.

These (were) my settings (I think override was from a previous nvidia card, and disabling hw decode is from current intel integrated, to stop youtube problems):

$ cat /etc/adobe/mms.cfg 
#Hardware video decoding
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0
$ cat ~/.adobe/mms.cfg 
OverrideGPUValidation=1

I've swapped them around i.e. do not override, and enable hardware decode - so I will see how it goes in the next few days.

In `dmesg` I have these when it happens:

[ 5301.507845] traps: plugin-containe[954] general protection ip:7fbe19ac1d02 sp:7fffcb9f7610 error:0 in libva.so.1.3501.0[7fbe19abb000+15000]
[ 5312.855187] traps: plugin-containe[1363] general protection ip:7f5fab6c2d02 sp:7fffa0cc7cb0 error:0 in libva.so.1.3501.0[7f5fab6bc000+15000]
[ 5316.355004] traps: plugin-containe[1374] general protection ip:7fde1c3c2d02 sp:7fff0c95fed0 error:0 in libva.so.1.3501.0[7fde1c3bc000+15000]
[ 5329.281016] traps: plugin-containe[1385] general protection ip:7f95a39c2d02 sp:7fff3d7e9910 error:0 in libva.so.1.3501.0[7f95a39bc000+15000]
[16415.285329] traps: plugin-containe[1402] general protection ip:7fe974b9cd02 sp:7fff0ced3c50 error:0 in libva.so.1.3501.0[7fe974b96000+15000]
[16420.926733] traps: plugin-containe[3448] general protection ip:7f95548c2d02 sp:7fff4acc1310 error:0 in libva.so.1.3501.0[7f95548bc000+15000]
[16436.243751] traps: plugin-containe[3459] general protection ip:7fe9f27c2d02 sp:7fff98474d40 error:0 in libva.so.1.3501.0[7fe9f27bc000+15000]

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

What is your graphics hardware and what graphics drivers are you using?

stevenhoneyman

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From: England

Registered: 2014-05-25

Posts: 241

Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

Intel 4th gen integrated, default kernel driver. Latest motherboard BIOS (but it hasnt been changed recently), Arch intel-ucode package installed (not sure if that makes any difference to the graphics!)

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)

$ pacman -Qs intel
local/iasl 20140424-1
    Intel ACPI Source Language compiler
local/intel-dri 10.2.1-1
    Mesa drivers for Intel
local/intel-ucode 20140430-1
    Microcode update files for Intel CPUs
local/lib32-intel-dri 10.2.1-1
    Mesa DRI drivers for Intel (32-bit)
local/libva-intel-driver 1.3.1-1
    VA-API implementation for Intel G45 and HD Graphics family
local/xf86-video-intel 2.99.911-2 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

Last edited by stevenhoneyman (2014-06-13 14:34:17)

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stevenhoneyman

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From: England

Registered: 2014-05-25

Posts: 241

Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

This yellow bar! (no idea what caused it, but this is a GitHub tab I had open)

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stevenhoneyman

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Registered: 2014-05-25

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Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

OK, it's still crashing... but no more frequently than before, and my CPU load has decreased - so HWVideoDecode=1 can stay

I was hoping it wouldn't just be me with this issue

Guess it'll have to be:
1. clean FF profile
2. flash downgrade
3. firefox downgrade

I don't think any of those will be easy/nice to work with for a day!

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RibShark

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Registered: 2013-09-21

Posts: 30

Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

It's not just you! I have this issue as well.

whaler

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 323

Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

I may have a similar, although worse, problem.
Since upgrading to Firefox 30.0, my desktop freezes completely and/or goes black without warning.
Not sure if this is to do with Firefox, but the timing is suspicious.
I don't know where to start tracing this.

JohannesE

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Registered: 2009-08-17

Posts: 22

Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

I'm having the same problem: flash crashes very often in firefox since the last update...

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

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Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

Does firefox output anything useful when run in a terminal? Do you use pulseaudio?

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

It's a bug in libva: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/l … 02413.html

JohannesE

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Registered: 2009-08-17

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Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

I filed a bug report.
However, until the bug is fixed in the Arch repository you can build a fixed version yourself with this tarball: http://tmp.lpe-media.de/libva_patched_SRC.tar.gz
(A packaged version is also available: http://tmp.lpe-media.de/libva-1.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg )

stevenhoneyman

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From: England

Registered: 2014-05-25

Posts: 241

Re: Firefox & Adobe Flash issue since latest updates

Oo! for some reason I didnt recieve notifications for your replies

Thanks Gusar & JohannesE - I've recompiled my libva so will give it a restart and see...

edit: so far so good, it hasn't crashed yet, and previously it would every time when skipping through a flash video

Last edited by stevenhoneyman (2014-06-20 14:33:09)

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