Save-as media file causes crash firefox/totem plugin

[Adam Wiggins]

Binary package hint: firefox-bin totem-mozilla-viewer

Distro Release: Edgy 6.10
Package versions:

Attached: firefox's gdb backtrace http://librarian.launchpad.net/5423658/gdb-firefox.log

Description:

1. Go to: http://dusk.org/adam/tmp/ffbug.html

2. Click the link. It will try to play the file in Totem, and if you haven't installed any extra packages, it will fail with a "Totem can't play fd0://" message.

3. Click the browser back button.

4. Right click the link, Save As.

5. The dialog box will hang for a few seconds, and then the browser crashes.

This is reproducible every time on my system. Completely up-to-date Edgy, minimal extra pacakges installed, all Firefox extensions disabled.

Of course this happens on many other pages (GMail, for example, is where I noticed it the most) but the example above is the most obvious. It seems to happen with any file type, not just mp3.

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

Thanks for your full report.

I've followed your steps and I can play the file without any problem:

hjmf@desktop:~$ ps aux | egrep "[t]otem"
hjmf 23445 4.3 1.4 89404 15028 ? SLl 12:59 0:03 /usr/lib/totem/totem-mozilla-viewer --xid 48312850 --width 100 --height 100 --url http://dusk.org/adam/tmp/ffbug.mp3 --mimetype audio/mpeg fd://0

Also when I follow steps 3-5 the download dialog proceeds the usual way and the file gets saved perfectly.

I'm using as you are, Edgy with all the updates.

Maybe is a misconfiguration or something. But please if you have time it could be very helpful for us in order to get more info about your problem if you follow the hints on debugging firefox (using firefox-dbg) form https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingFirefox

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

... of course I've installed the Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.16.2

[Adam Wiggins (hiro)]

Sure, here's the gdb log. Anything else I can provide that would be helpful, just let me know.

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

Thanks for the feedback. Please indicate what package versions are you running of firefox and totem-mozilla-viewer. In my case I can't reproduce the bug with these versions:

firefox 2.0+0dfsg-0ubuntu3
totem-mozilla 2.16.2-0ubuntu1

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

There seems to be a moderate number of reports with the same behaviour so unless someone thinks the opposite I'm going to merge those common reports.

The bug reports with same sythoms are: bug #45008, bug #64734, bug #65183, bug #68168, bug #70018, bug #70185, bug #70797, bug #71033, bug #72392, bug #72488, bug #72650, bug #73403, bug #74720, bug #75129, bug #75835, bug #75846,

We still need more information on this bug, so please any new comment/attach should go into bug #45008 as it might be the master bug of this problem. Please try to follow the hints in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingFirefox it will be of great help for us in tracking down this problem.