Comment 10 for bug 224952

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote : Re: [Bug 224952] [NEW] Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 crashed when playing video

>
> James Abley wrote:
>
>> >> Public bug reported:
>> >>
>> >> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>> >>
>> >> Description: Ubuntu 8.04
>> >> Release: 8.04
>> >>
>> >> jabley@python:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
>> >> firefox:
>> >> Installed: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
>> >> Candidate: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
>> >> Version table:
>> >> *** 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
>> >> 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
>> >> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> >>
>> >> When trying to view this page:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/celebritylap.shtml
>> >>
>> >> The Firefox process dies when the video is retrieved from youtube.
>> >>
>> >> I've seen other reports asking for the contents of /var/crash. I don't
>> >> have anything in there. The problem is consistently reproducible on my
>> >> machine, so I should be able to supply more information if someone can
>> >> tell me what to look for; e.g. dpkg selections, firefox Content-Type
>> >> application associations or something else that might point to the
>> >> problem.
>> >>
>> >> This machine was a vanilla 7.10 install, recently upgraded to 8.04.
>> >>
>> >> Nothing obviously enlightening when running the process from the CLI
>> >> either.
>> >>
>> >> jabley@python:~$ firefox
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
>> >> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
>> >> jabley@python:~$
>> >>
>> >> ProblemType: Bug
>> >> Architecture: i386
>> >> Date: Wed Apr 30 23:01:03 2008
>> >> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
>> >> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
>> >> PackageArchitecture: i386
>> >> ProcEnviron:
>> >>
>> >> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
>> >>
>> >> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>> >> SHELL=/bin/bash
>> >> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
>> >> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
>> >>
>> >> ** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
>> >> Importance: Undecided
>> >> Status: New
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ** Tags: apport-bug
>> >>
>> >>
>>

Can you please run "locate libflashsupport.so" without the " and post
the output on this bug report. Also can you please obtain a backtrace by
following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs

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    John Vivirito

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