Shockwave PlugIn crashes

[Jesse Ochry]

Can't view Flash videos

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: firefox 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic i686
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: jesse 1695 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20120310010446
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'nForce2'/'NVidia nForce2 with ALC655 at irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC655 rev 0'
   Components : 'AC97a:414c4760'
   Controls : 41
   Simple ctrls : 26
Channel: release
Date: Sat Mar 31 17:16:39 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions:
 StumbleUpon - ID={AE93811A-5C9A-4d34-8462-F7B864FC4696}, Version=3.94, minVersion=1.0, maxVersion=8.0a1, Location=app-profile, Type=extension, Active=Yes
 Forecastfox - ID={0538E3E3-7E9B-4d49-8831-A227C80A7AD3}, Version=2.0.19, minVersion=3.0, maxVersion=8.0a1, Location=app-profile, Type=extension, Active=Yes
 DownloadHelper - ID={b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}, Version=4.9.4, minVersion=3.0, maxVersion=8.0a1, Location=app-profile, Type=extension, Active=Yes
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.100 metric 1
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=11.0/20120310010446 (Running)
RfKill:

RunningIncompatibleAddons: True
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-13 (138 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/25/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: nVidia-nForce
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd01/25/2005:svn:pn:pvr:rvn:rnnVidia-nForce:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:

[Markus Bröker (developer288)]

I am using 11.04 and i have the same problem:

On my 32-bit desktop machine with an amd processor Chromium or Firefox cannot play Flash-Content with the latest flashplayer from adobe (adobe-flashplugin-11.2.202.228-0natty1)

On my 32-bit Laptop, with the same nvidia card(nv34), but an intel processor, everything works fine.

I have reinstalled my desktop machine and the flashplayer worked until i installed the available updates.

I have replaced the libflashplayer.so with an older version from the adobe website and the flashplayer works now fine in chromium and firefox.

Chromium 17.0.963.79 (Ubuntu 11.04)
Flash plugin 11.1 r102 /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

I tried to debug the problem and started both browsers from the command-line, but there is no output. The current adobe-flashplugin crashes silently and there is no way to turn off hw acceleration or anything else, because flash just crashes.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Markus Bröker (developer288)]

Looks like an Upstream Bug:

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?product=Firefox&platform=linux&query_search=signature&query_type=contains&reason_type=contains&date=04%2F03%2F2012%2006%3A36%3A53&range_value=1&range_unit=weeks&hang_type=any&process_type=any&do_query=1&signature=libflashplayer.so%400x7cd96e

There are now many bug reports about the flashplugin with Firefox 11.0 on Linux. And most of the crashes are on machines with a blacklisted gpu