Flash consistently causes either a hard lock or a segfault

[Andrew Melo]

Binary package hint: firefox

I don't know if this is more appropriate to post here, but browsing with either flash 9 or flash 10 causes firefox to occasionally either vanish with a segfault or lock hard. I have attached a debug log/backtrace to help diagnose.

On a related note, a lot of the bug-posting tutorial doesn't match up with firefox3.0 (specifically the *-dbg packages), so I didn't know how to provide a lot of the other information that was asked for. If there's something else that's needed, I can provide it though.

apt-cache amelo@amelo-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
  Candidate: 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
amelo@amelo-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy xulrunner-1.9
xulrunner-1.9:
  Installed: 1.9.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
  Candidate: 1.9.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
  Version table:
 *** 1.9.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.9~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

[Andrew Melo (andrew-melo)]

Another BT from firefox locking hard

[onyxrev (entp)]

I would like to add that I also am having a similar issue. Occasionally my 8.10 install locks hard while watching a Flash video. System log shows:

[ 5586.522966] npviewer.bin[10859]: segfault at f13985b0 ip 000000004732e9f0 sp 00000000ef5a8fc4 error 4 in libpthread-2.8.90.so[47327000+15000]
Dec 15 15:32:01 abstractmobile kernel: [ 5643.259286] npviewer.bin[10867]: segfault at ff9d1e4c ip 00000000ff9d1e4c sp 00000000ffca88ac error 14

[bigal50 (bigal50)]

This is a duplicate of bug# 256995 which is confirmed with Importance of Med.

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