Firefox 3.0.5 (Gran Paradiso) freezing with flashplugin arch64 SOLVED

playingdoh · 2009-01-09 02:59:35

when i go to a site that contains flash (eg youtube) the flash video (or other) starts to load, then firefox freezes (grays out) and one of my cores (duel core AMD) goes to 80% and firefox has to be ended. there is no log that i know of.

i have tried safe mode
removeing firefox and flashplugin and reinstalling
changed mirrors
cleared the cashe and redownloaded
tried installing opera and minefield (flash crashed in them too, the same way)
installed different verson of the flashplugin from the aur and tried downloading from the flash site (the 64 bit alpha)
removed ALL config files to do with adobe, macromedia, mozilla, firefox, flash
tried making a new account
everything i can think of except reinstalling because i think its someting to do with conflicting files or programs

is there anything im missing

i included a list of installed program incase of conflicts

EDIT_Rev02: Removed list as this post was comming up in every search i did.

EDIT:
i ended up reinstalling and still had the same problem, how ever after the last pacman update (3.2.2-1) it started working again, so im not sure what fixed it. im assuming that it was a config file i messed up and was fixed with the update.

Last edited by playingdoh (2009-01-31 00:16:38)

mrunion · 2009-01-09 03:29:19

Fifrefox 3.0.5, Flash and Arch64 here and I don;t have that issue. I'm definitely not sure what to check, but I know that combo does work.

GSF1200S · 2009-01-09 07:34:23

mrunion wrote:

Fifrefox 3.0.5, Flash and Arch64 here and I don;t have that issue. I'm definitely not sure what to check, but I know that combo does work.

Another Arch64/Firefox 3.0.5, and flash works fine for me. In fact, before when I used nspluginviewer, I had all kinds of freezes and crashes. Now, the "alpha" plugin released works fantastic.. I havent had any errors.

WeeDie · 2009-01-09 07:54:14

I'm using Arch64/Firefox (Gran Paradiso) 3.0.5 and XFCE4 all fresh installed from FTP installation.

I installed the flashplugin with:
bash-3.2# pacman -S flashplugin
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): flashplugin-10.0.d21.1-1

Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 12.10 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
(1/1) installing flashplugin [#####################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on usr/lib/mozilla/
filesystem: 700 package: 755
bash-3.2# chmod 755 /usr/lib/mozilla/

And I still don't get flash in firefox!
Any idea what's wrong here?

bash-3.2# pacman -Ql flashplugin
flashplugin /usr/
flashplugin /usr/lib/
flashplugin /usr/lib/mozilla/
flashplugin /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
flashplugin /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
flashplugin /usr/share/
flashplugin /usr/share/licenses/
flashplugin /usr/share/licenses/flashplugin/
flashplugin /usr/share/licenses/flashplugin/Reader_Player_WWEULA-Combined-20060724_1430.pdf

I would think it's the libflashplayer.so that Firefox checks for, so I guess the search path for flash in Firefox installed from official repository must be wrong..

Any idea what file it is written in?

Should I move the /usr/lib/mozilla/ plugins to /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/ ?

Last edited by WeeDie (2009-01-09 07:56:34)

WeeDie · 2009-01-09 08:00:39

Solved it by moving /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
to /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/

playingdoh · 2009-01-09 12:32:23

im not getting the
warning: directory permissions differ on usr/lib/mozilla/
error when installing and i tried moving the plugins folder from
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins
and im still getting the crash
i fear i might have mucked up some config file with the audio (alsa) and its causing conflicts, because when i disable the audio the videos on youtube get a little further (4 or 5 frames in) before firefox freezes up.
i think it might be easer to just archive all my "dot" files in home partition and reinstall

mrunion · 2009-01-09 14:21:40

Maybe a super-weird suggestion, but can you try logging in as a different user and see what happens? If it's some "user-specific" issue, it should go away with a generic, new user. I've had things like this happen when I much something in my /home/<user> up, and be fine elsewhere.

na12 · 2009-01-09 16:02:28

when i go to a site that contains flash (eg youtube) the flash video (or other) starts to load, then firefox freezes (grays out) and one of my cores (duel core AMD) goes to 80% and firefox has to be ended. there is no log that i know of.

me too,it is a firefox bug

playingdoh · 2009-01-09 18:52:18

ive tried making another user and still got the same results. thats what was leading me to think its conflicting programs or a system file i messed up.

would any of these cause conflicts?

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @hal @netfs @crond @alsa @gdm @bluetooth @samba @acpid @laptop-mode @preload @smartd @wicd)
MODULES=(forcedeth snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-pcsp snd-hda-intel soundcore b43 vboxdrv vboxnetflt powernow_k8 cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand)

it probably is just a firefox bug but there isnt a lot of people with this issue and im not sure how to reproduce it.

na12 · 2009-01-09 19:45:20

opera

playingdoh · 2009-01-10 03:49:05

im not sure if this helps but i just tried to play a .flv video in totem and the same things happens to totem (freezes after ~10 seconds on play and there is no sound)

virati · 2009-01-11 05:45:05

Maybe it was just me (I'm the kind to break the package management paradigm left and right)

but, I had the same problem. I installed the libflashplugin from the normal repositories, removed nsplugin and nsplugin-flash and it still wouldn't work. What happened was I copied the ns*.so file to my ~/.mozilla/plugins directory also.

Go to about:plugins and see if shockwave flash shows up twice. If it does, remove the other one and it should work. It worked for me just now.

Stunix · 2009-01-15 22:01:10

Hello All,

I am also having this issue with the flashplugin and firefox (gran-paradiso) running x86_64 arch on a Lenovo X61. The thing that I would like to know is who here, with this problem still persisting, is running 4GB of RAM or more? I recently upgraded my laptop from 1GB to 4GB and it wasn't until then that I started seeing this problem. Can anyone else confirm or deny this as a potential cause of the problem? I am not attempting to assign the blame to firefox or flashplugin but just see if there is a hardware configuration in common. I am also running Intel X3100 integrated graphics that shares the RAM and the Intel HDA Sound. I have tried all fixes in this thread but nothing has sorted my issue.

playingdoh · 2009-01-15 23:39:52

Im runing with 4 gigs ram and a nvidia 7150M shared
but the problem kida just fixed itself after a pacman update

itti · 2009-02-15 12:10:39

arch64, 4gigs of ram and 64bit flashplugin right out of [extra]... firefox isn't crashing for me, but i'm getting very low performance with flash. stuttering youtube vids and stuff. kinda like the lib32-flashplugin/nspluginwrapper performance a year ago.

chessboxing · 2009-02-16 21:48:30

What is the solution still havin' this problem...

Alethasis · 2009-03-19 15:46:12

I still have this problem too.

Running on Lenovo Y510

Arch Linux

#1 2009-01-09 02:59:35

Firefox 3.0.5 (Gran Paradiso) freezing with flashplugin arch64 SOLVED

#2 2009-01-09 03:29:19

Re: Firefox 3.0.5 (Gran Paradiso) freezing with flashplugin arch64 SOLVED

#3 2009-01-09 07:34:23

Re: Firefox 3.0.5 (Gran Paradiso) freezing with flashplugin arch64 SOLVED

#4 2009-01-09 07:54:14

Re: Firefox 3.0.5 (Gran Paradiso) freezing with flashplugin arch64 SOLVED

#5 2009-01-09 08:00:39

Re: Firefox 3.0.5 (Gran Paradiso) freezing with flashplugin arch64 SOLVED

#6 2009-01-09 12:32:23

Re: Firefox 3.0.5 (Gran Paradiso) freezing with flashplugin arch64 SOLVED

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Re: Firefox 3.0.5 (Gran Paradiso) freezing with flashplugin arch64 SOLVED

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Re: Firefox 3.0.5 (Gran Paradiso) freezing with flashplugin arch64 SOLVED

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