Ubuntu
gnash package

GNU gnash brings the system to its knees

Bug #320493 reported by Michael
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gnash (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Installing the GNU gnash Firefox plugin ("apt-get install mozilla-plugin-gnash") and opening the page http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html in Firefox brings a fully updated Ubuntu 8.10 to its knees to the point that I needed a hard reboot to recover. This is reproducible, and setting /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to 2 does not help. Obviously it is a bug in gnash that it overloads the system like this, but it seems to me to be a much worse bug in Ubuntu that it can't cope with this. I don't know if it is possible to set up a modern Linux-based system to survive this though.

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Michael (michaeljt) wrote :

Not relevant to me now, marking incomplete as I can't close it.

Changed in gnash (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gnash (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gnash (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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