npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV

[dasnbob]

Binary package hint: nspluginwrapper

upgrading alsa in Karmic via terminal command in order to hdmi alsa sound working. ATI hd4000 (sapphire 4670) series with propietary drivers installed via add/remove programs.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Oct 5 15:04:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin
Package: nspluginwrapper 1.2.2-0ubuntu6
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrapper/NSPlugins/libflashplayer.so/9490-2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.7-rt
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xf68b654c: mov 0x4(%ecx),%eax
 PC (0xf68b654c) ok
 source "0x4(%ecx)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nspluginwrapper
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
Title: npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-rt x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[dasnbob (dasnshn42)]

I followed these instructions under UbuntuStudio 9.10 Beta (Karmic) and recieved a no file or directory message when attempt the unpack and install stage. I have an Asus M4A78T-E mb, Phenom x3 720 cpu, and Sapphire ATI 4670 vid card
(2x2)4g RAM. Rebooting now to see if sound becomes operable.

copy of terminal log below

bobert@ubuntuRD:~$ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.
bobert@ubuntuRD:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop
 * Shutting down ALSA... [ OK ]
bobert@ubuntuRD:~$ sudo apt-get -y install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext xmlto
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
Note, selecting libncurses5-dev instead of ncurses-dev
libncurses5-dev is already the newest version.
gettext is already the newest version.
xmlto is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libswfdec-0.8-0 libppl7 libppl-c2 libcloog-ppl0 libgmpxx4ldbl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
bobert@ubuntuRD:~$ sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-`uname -r`
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-2.6.31-6-rt is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libswfdec-0.8-0 libppl7 libppl-c2 libcloog-ppl0 libgmpxx4ldbl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
bobert@ubuntuRD:~$ cd ~exitrm -rf ~/alsa*
bash: cd: ~exitrm: No such file or directory
bobert@ubuntuRD:~$ wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2
--2009-10-05 18:17:37-- ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2
           => `alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2.1'
Resolving ftp.alsa-project.org... 212.20.107.51
Connecting to ftp.alsa-project.org|212.20.107.51|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/driver ... done.
==> SIZE alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2 ... 3112563
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2 ... done.
Length: 3112563 (3.0M)

100%[======================================>] 3,112,563 141K/s in 22s

2009-10-05 18:18:02 (136 KB/s) - `alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2.1' saved [3112563]

bobert@ubuntuRD:~$ wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.21a.tar.bz2
--2009-10-05 18:18:14-- ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.21a.tar.bz2
           => `alsa-lib-1.0.21a.tar.bz2.1'
Resolving ftp.alsa-project.org... 212.20.107.51
Connecting to ftp.alsa-project.org|212.20.107.51|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/lib ... done.
==> SIZE alsa-lib-1.0.21a.tar.bz2 ... 808475
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR alsa-lib-1.0.21a.tar.bz2 ... done.
Length: 808475 (790K)

100%[======================================>] 808,475 164K...

[dasnbob (dasnshn42)]

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/81970

 upgrade instructions referred to above are from this page

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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!.