Consistent crash when visiting flash sites
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Whenever I visit a flash-enabled site, my browser crashes hard with the following message:
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The program 'epiphany' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 118 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
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The message is identical between Firefox and Epiphany, with the exception that the first line reads "The program 'Gecko'..." for Firefox.
I've tried manually installing the plugin from the Macromedia-provided tarball in my ~/.mozilla/plugins folder, but that crashes just the same.
The crash occurs any time I try to view a site that contains an embedded Flash file. I see a light-grey 'placeholder' rectangle where the flash movie should appear and my disk chatters a bit, then my browser crashes and exits. I would guess this means that there is a problem during plugin initialization.
Would a backtrace be helpful in this situation? The problem appears to be inside the Macromedia binary, which does not appear to have debugging symbols.
I'm using an up-to-date Dapper.
Changed in flashplugin-nonfree: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
I'm having the same problem on Dapper.
Are you using the X server extensions in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
If your file has a section with any of the following options:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "true"
Option "DAMAGE" "true"
EndSection
then comment them and restart your X server or try starting firefox/epiphany from a console like this:
XLIB_SKIP_ ARGB_VISUALS= 1 firefox ARGB_VISUALS= 1 epiphany
-- or --
XLIB_SKIP_
and see if flash works.
Using konqueror the browser doesn't crash but animations are replaced by a grey array (you can still use the right-click menu, click buttons, select text etc. but you won't see anything).
(Seems like an incompatibility between the new X server extensions and the Flash plugin.)
BTW, which driver are you using (maybe it's somehow related; I use the nvidia non-free drivers)?
More info at: http:// www.mepislovers .org/modules/ newbb/viewtopic .php?topic_ id=13767& forum=8& post_id= 95376