[EDGY] firefox crashed [@fputc] [@NP_Shutdown] from /home/sbsbessa/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

[Sérgio Bessa]

Binary package hint: firefox

... Firefox crashes with upload to a flash site

It uploads the file correctly but at the end the browser crashes.

Ubuntu 6.10
Firefox: 2.0.0.1
Shockwave Flash 9.0 d55

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Thank you for the bug report. Could you please try to obtain a backtrace by following the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs, or upload the crash report from /var/crash/.

Also, please answer these questions:
Is this crash reproducible? If so, which are the steps that lead to it?
Which flash package do you have installed?
Which Java package do you have installed?
Which firefox extensions do you have installed?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

[Sérgio Bessa (sbsbessa)]

This happens every time I try to upload a file through a Flash interface.
I select the file using the file explorer window, the upload starts and near the end the browsers crashes.

Flash:
    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 d55

Java:
    java version "1.5.0_08"
    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_08-b03)
    Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_08-b03, mixed mode, sharing)

Firefox Extensions:
    None

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Thanks for you crash report.

All crash reports are at least importance high. Marking as such.

If we need further information to process your bug, we will let you know.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Taking for retrace.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

retrace done.
I ran this a couple of times after installing some other packages adn it didnt change so here it is.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Can you please follow the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs to obtain a backtrace, so we can have a better understanding of what is causing your crash?

[Bill Gooch (billgch)]

I have had a similar problem over HTTPS with flash player 8/9.

After browsing the adobe forums the problem seam's to be, and i quote here ............

There is a Flash-Player-and-Firefox issue with putting ":443" in the url. For standard http port 80 and https port 443, when Firefox returns policy files to the player, unfortunately Firefox strips off the port from the url, which causes Flash Player to think that the incorrect policy file was returned (as the returned url does not exactly match what Flash Player wanted), so the file upload will not be permitted.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Bill please file a new bug report and attach the crash report located in /var/crash to the new bug.

[Sérgio Bessa (sbsbessa)]

I'm always able to reproduce the situation in this site:

www.mingle.pt

It's a registered users only community in Portuguese, though I can provide a valid login to anyone if necessary.

[Sérgio Bessa (sbsbessa)]

just to add that the same thing happens in this flash upload example:

http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/upload/

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

sbsbessa, the link http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/upload/ is only for flash 8 adobe never released flash8 for linux.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Retrace for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/85833/comments/9

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/85833/comments/9

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Retrace done. Adding a flash job to bug.

[Ruben (rubenr-canada)]

After seeing few videos in www.youtube.com, Firefox always crashes. It usually goes through the first video fine, but later it will fail.

[DonP (dpeterson71)]

I also see this crash repeatedly. One place to guarantee reproducibility is the broadband speed test at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/. FF crahses at the conclusion of the upload test EVERY TIME.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Is this still a problem for anyone? I am unable to reproduce this.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

here is screenshot of completed test so you can see it didnt crash.

[Ruben (rubenr-canada)]

I cannot tell, I do not have Firefox anymore. The last time I used it, it crashed once in a while when I was seeing videos in YouTube.
Ruben

> From: <email address hidden>> To: <email address hidden>> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:55:32 +0000> Subject: [Bug 85833] Re: Firefox crashes with upload to a flash site> > Is this still a problem for anyone? I am unable to reproduce this.> > -- > Firefox crashes with upload to a flash site> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85833> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber> of the bug.
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[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

New retrace done on report http://launchpadlibrarian.net/6484938/_usr_lib_firefox_firefox-bin.1000.crash.

Extract from retraced stacktrace:
...
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 fputc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#5 NP_Shutdown () from /home/sbsbessa/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#6 NP_Shutdown ()from /home/sbsbessa/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#7 NP_Shutdown ()from /home/sbsbessa/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#8 NP_Shutdown ()from /home/sbsbessa/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#9 NP_Shutdown ()from /home/sbsbessa/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#10 NP_Shutdown ()from /home/sbsbessa/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#11 NP_Shutdown ()from /home/sbsbessa/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#12 NP_Shutdown ()from /home/sbsbessa/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
...

Tagging as mt-needtestcase, mt-waitdup for further processing

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Retraced Thread Stacktrace

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

We are going to close this bug report in what respects to firefox because it looks that it was caused by adobe's flashplugin-nonfree which we can do anything about it, since it is closed source. You might want to report it upstream directly.

Just in case this is still an issue for you, notice that you are not using ubuntu's packaged flash plugin (package flashplugin-nonfree) I recommend you to migrate to the packaged version. It might not prevent those crashes, but the plugin will be always up-to-date by apt the way the other apps are.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta? (Should be fixed in 10 beta/RC.)

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Despite the summary referring to a user-specific Flash version, this symptom is fixed in jaunty.