firefox freezes in feisty herd 3

[jens_acamedia]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

i know theres a few of these bugs. but ill let somebody else decide if this is a dup since im not quite sure.

ive spent the last hour trying to make this bug reproducible but its damn difficult. i can get youtube to crash maybe every 5 times or so. what i do is i go to a video and watch it. then some time during its playing ill hit the back or home button. this will make firefox unresponsive and ill have to force quit it. i use beryl but otherwise no extensions or anything in firefox.
of course i use flashplugin-nonfree and im all updated as of today.

i started firefox from the terminal and managed to make it freeze. the result was this:

jens@bigboy:~$ 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)
Killed

im attaching a gdb. backtrace.

[Brent (brenttkelly)]

This happens to me constantly (about 1 out of every 5-10 videos I watch), and it seems like it only happens with flash videos from youtube and its ilk as I've don't think I've had it happen with normal flash "decorations" on pages. It seems to happen when a video is open and you either leave the page by any means (ie: closing the tab it is in, following a link on the page, navigating to a bookmark, etc). I don't get any ouput at all from firefox when running it from a console, it just starts quitely and hang quitely when this happens. I'm not overly familiar with GDB so I'm not too sure what I could add here.

[Brent (brenttkelly)]

I also noticed a few bugs that are possibly the same problem.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/98688
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/92207 (this is for konqueror, but the description of the problem is identical)

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

same for me! flash crashes my browser very frequently. It usually happens if flash is active in more than one Tab or Window. Opening several youtube videos in one Tab each is a pretty good bet to get firefox to crash. This bug first appeared after some firefox security update and a flash update at the same time. Since then, flash is behaving that way.

I thought I have filed a bug long time ago, which contained the versions of flash and firefox, what the were before the update and after. Did not find it anymore though.

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

This is still the case in feisty final!

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

Test this:
http://www.strato.de/server/index.html

This freezes my firefox every time!

I started it from the console and get:
elias@doroga:~$ 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)

As jens_acamedia above. It seems strange to me that Jens, Brent and me seem to be the only ones experiencing this. Have to check if my mother's Laptop has the same problem.

Please test the URL mentioned above (all of you) and let me know, if it works for you or not. Please be quick, as Strato might change the website some time.

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

Did I say Feisty Final.

I meant Gutsy Final.

Would be great if Ubuntu/Canonical would officially report that upstream. What does Adobe care about my voice, if I report it to them!

[DanielRoesler (diafygi)]

I just did a clean install of Hardy Heron 8.04 beta. Haven't had a crash yet, and I've been trying hard. Looks good so far. Will report back if I experience a crash.

Btw. This seems to be the same as Bug #104470 and Bug #114363

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this and trying to make Ubuntu better.

This issue is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Jaunty Jackalope. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ .

I did attempt to reproduce this using Jaunty Jackalope 9.04, up to date as of 2009-03-05, with firefox 3.0.7. I could not reproduce this issue in several attempts, on my P3 866MHz cpu with 512MB ram.

Could one of the reporters please verify if this issue is fixed now? Thanks.

[DanielRoesler (diafygi)]

Yes, this bug is still occurring. It might be a duplicate of Bug #114363. It does occur when you install flash-nonfree while using the LiveCD. I believe the only people who are affected by this ongoing bug are those who use hda-intel (see other bug)...maybe.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

does this occur when you close browser?

[DanielRoesler (diafygi)]

> does this occur when you close browser?

Yes, this occurs when you close a browser window. It will either freeze (requiring a Force Quit to exit) or crash closing all open firefox windows.

It used to happen when you navigated away from a page or close the tab or window in which the video is embedded (in Intrepid), but this was very rare (maybe 1-2% of the time). However, in Jaunty it happens 50-100% of the time, but it only occurs when you close a WINDOW, not a tab or navigate away from the page. I've been using some workarounds to avoid the crashes:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/114363/comments/55

Any relevant commands outputs I can attach so ya'll can troubleshoot this more? I'm not a programmer, but I do have a dedicated Jaunty machine that reliably reproduces this bug. So anything ya'll want me to do, just ask.

[Mike Hicks (hick0088)]

I've been having problems with this for a while now. I thought it seemed to go away either just before Ubuntu 9.04 came out, or briefly after the upgrade, but it's back with a vengeance. I had also switched system chassis lately -- originally I'd been running a Dell PowerEdge 600SC, which did not have any sound device in it, and I've now switched to a Dell OptiPlex GX280, which uses the snd-intel8x0 driver from ALSA.

Currently, I'm having trouble with some pages on the New York Times website (http://nytimes.com/), and with pages on Minnesota Public Radio's sites which have a small audio player. What's notable about the MPR player is that the player itself goes fubar shortly after it loads -- there's a little ">" play button that appears momentarily, then goes away. Then when I either close the tab or try to navigate away, the browser goes to 100% CPU usage and it must be killed. Here's an example page: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2009/06/coleman-franken_the_reaction.shtml

This system can normally play YouTube videos just fine, though I have occasionally had problems in the past if I closed a window while a YouTube video was still playing.

I had been blaming PulseAudio for causing this, considering that the pulseaudio daemon would still start on my old system with its soundcard-less motherboard, but I've done what I can to disable PulseAudio on this newer box and it still seems to occur.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This was fixed in flash 10