Closing pages with Flash9 ends Gnome session

[Daeng Bo]

Binary package hint: nspluginwrapper

In addition to the expected general buggines of using a wrapper for plugins on an architecture they weren't designed for, viewing some pages with Flash (9) in either Epiphany or Firefox causes the entire seesion to end sometimes, killing all working programs. Blech. What a nasty bug.

Environment:
Ubuntu 7.10 AMD64 up to date
Core2 Duo
Intel chipset
2GB RAM

Steps to reproduce:
This seems a little random and hard to reproduce on a single page. Basically, you need to view a large number of Flash video sites. YouTube doesn't seem to work. Go to Digg.com and start looking through all the videos. There are no system slowdowns before the problem occurs.

When you close a tab containing "the last straw" video, the session ends and you are thrown into a login at GDM. Any work you had going at the time is lost.

Since the crash is apparently random, I suspect that nspluginwrapper is behaving badly and not closing correctly when a tab is closed, ultimately draining enough that the session ends. There are no symptoms leading up to it, though. There is a possibly related problem of the browser freezing. When its killed, several nsviewer.bin windows generally pop up and have to be forcibly killed, as well.

[Colin Dean (colindean)]

I can confirm this. It's seemingly random. I'm obvs using 7.10 amd64, too. This is a nasty, nasty bug since it kills everything running in the desktop session.

[MD (mderakhs)]

I can confirm this on Hardy.

I have attached my log files here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/239233
If you need more info please let me know.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Daeng Bo (daengbo)]

This bug is confirmed on 7.10 and 8.04. Shouldn't you be asking about
those instead of 8.10 and 9.04?

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Daeng, if a bug is fixes in a new version of Ubuntu, we can eventually figure out what has changed or backport the package so the fix would also appear in prior versions of Ubuntu. So is it still reproducable for you with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Daeng Bo (daengbo)]

I haven't had this issue for over a year, but I switched all my
machines except servers to 32-bit just to avoid the problem. I won't
be able to comment.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!