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#1 2008-11-21 16:18:17

Carlwill
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Installing Flash Causes Firefox Crashes

I installed the following "Flash' plugin for Firefox:

[root@tunafish ~]# pacman -Ss flash
testing/flashplugin 10.0.12.36-4
    Adobe Flash Player (downloads plugin on install)

Now everytime I go to any site that requires flash like youtube.com, Firefox just completely crashes and disappears. I can reopen the browser and go to sites like this one but as soon as a page requires this plugin, FF crashes.

Anyone know what I can do to resovlve this problem?


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#2 2008-11-21 19:54:37

firecat53
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Re: Installing Flash Causes Firefox Crashes

Uninstall it, take the testing repo out of your pacman config, and try installing the plugin from AUR (select which one depending on your architecture and browser).

Good luck!
Scott

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#3 2008-11-21 19:58:15

iBertus
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Re: Installing Flash Causes Firefox Crashes

I had a similar issue when the snd_pcsp module was introduced, as it somehow became the primary ALSA device. Firefox would freeze or crash at flash using sites. Blacklisting snd_pcsp seems to have fixed the issue for me.

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#4 2008-11-21 20:09:00

skottish
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Re: Installing Flash Causes Firefox Crashes

iBertus wrote:

I had a similar issue when the snd_pcsp module was introduced, as it somehow became the primary ALSA device. Firefox would freeze or crash at flash using sites. Blacklisting snd_pcsp seems to have fixed the issue for me.

+1. Everything that uses sound would consume 100% on at least one core, and that led to occasional crashes in various applications.

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#5 2008-11-21 20:25:39

sessy
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Re: Installing Flash Causes Firefox Crashes

I would also check permissions on /var/lib/mozilla/plugins (#chmod 755 /var/lib/mozilla/plugins)

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#6 2008-11-23 18:27:10

thomasknowles
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Re: Installing Flash Causes Firefox Crashes

I was experiencing the same problem as Carlwill, eventually I just installed the Firefox nightly build using yaourt.

yaourt -S firefox-nightly

and

cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

I have not yet experienced any segmentation faults which I was getting on 3.0.3

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#7 2008-11-25 14:28:00

mhd
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Registered: 2008-02-06
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Re: Installing Flash Causes Firefox Crashes

I get the same error on my work laptop. Whether I'm using conkeror or firefox (even nightlies), every flash site immediately crashes the browser. Strangely enough, my home desktop system works flawlessly. I guess it's either something about the processors, or some package that's there (or not) is messing things up.

Anybody got some ideas where to check besides comparing pacman -Q and /proc/cpuinfo?

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#8 2008-11-25 14:37:51

thomasknowles
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Re: Installing Flash Causes Firefox Crashes

From removing all the dependencies of firefox and reinstalling 3.0.4, flash now seems quite content on my system. Though I am not sure what provoked this error to begin with.

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#9 2008-11-25 15:04:38

mhd
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Re: Installing Flash Causes Firefox Crashes

Hmph, I've got my problems sorted out. First of all I should add that this is for the new 64 bit flash plugin.

I didn't get the package from testing working on my work machine, so I fiddled around a bit with some aur packages and found "flashplugin-alpha-64". Which worked quite fine. Now when investigating the PKGBUILD, it looked like they were downloading the same libflashplugin.so from the Adobe site.

In then end, the AUR had one dependency the 'official' package didn't have: curl. And lo, 'strings libflashplayer.so |grep curl' resulted in some symbols. After removing the flashplugin-alpha-64 and installing _both_ curl and flashplugin/testing, it all seems to work just fine.

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