lernid freezes after displaying a web page using flash--interference with threading used for slides

[John S. Gruber]

Binary package hint: lernid

If a web page is brought up because a url in the chat (or entered in the Event->Open Url dialog) that contains flash, and if the adobe plugin is installed, lernid freezes.

To reproduce be sure that the adobe plugin is installed, start lernid, Use Event->Open url to open http://youtube.com

Uninstalling adobe flash avoids the freeze, but flash media, of course, isn't available.

Installing lightspark allows chrome-browser to use flash, but not the browser in lernid, but this flash plugin doesn't seem to hang lernid.

In normal operation last week, lernid ran for a day full of sessions only to fail (presumably on this error) in the last 15 minutes.

The problem is that the slides process uses Python threads to download slides files asynchronously, but adobe flash doesn't seem to be compatible with it.

Slides also do not render, due to a poppler call problem.

[John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)]

To reproduce make sure that the aobe flash plugin is installed in your system and then connect to a session and use the Event->Open URL menu item to open a youtube video. For example the following URL fails with the current code:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lernid - 0.8.0.1

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lernid (0.8.0.1) natty; urgency=low

  * Closes: LP: #749848: Revert the slide loading function to run synchronously
            rather than using python threads.
  * Closes: LP: #751019: Handle case where web page has no title.
  * Closes: LP: #764069: Revise size parameters passed to poppler page render
            call.
 -- John S Gruber <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:58:23 -0400