Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube

[Skwerl]

while surfing a flash heavy site, such as youtube, npviewer will randomly lock up, and i have to force quit it, to start again.

not common, but super annoying.

[Daniel Stiner (danstiner)]

This bug is a duplicate of Bug #201360, "npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_newv()"
Assuming this is the same case as mine, where npviewer locks up, and any flash box turns a lovely grey?
Sorry I can't help, but hopefully all the crash logs in the other bug report will allow someone to do something about this. Kinda a big deal for anyone with a 64bit computer on the internet. Which will soon be most home Ubuntu users.

[Hew (hew)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[eyrea (katherine-hajer)]

Hew:

Sure enough, it hasn't been an issue since I updated to Hardy.

Thank you for checking back.

On 23/07/2008, Hew McLachlan <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: nspluginwrapper (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
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[Daniel Stiner (danstiner)]

Upgrade to Hardy Heron fixed the issue.

[Daniel Petty (mixmatch)]

I'm using Intrepid and its happening to me.

[Madko (madko)]

same here, using Intrepid and npviewer.bin crash randomly often

[ciplogic (ciprian-mustiata)]

I've updated Ubuntu and once it crash, reallym not so often, but I am up to date and it is said that the fix is released. So I think that is better to be said that still happens, probably more rarely.

[Hew (hew)]

Reopening based on comments.

[marcosdsanchez (marcosdsanchez)]

I can confirm this on Intrepid

[Julio Lajara (ju2wheels)]

Happening on Intrepid Alpha 6 64bit for me as well.

[drunkzenith (drunkzenith)]

Same problem here (Intrepid Alpha 6 64bit)

[kronos (kronos)]

same problem here (Intrepid 64bit)
firefox crashes also randomly visiting for example facebook

[richard mullens (richard-mullens)]

Again - problem on Intrepid-Alpha-6 - crash when playing You Tube video while many tabs were reloading

[VoidedCheck (fangednekoyasha)]

same problem here, alpha 6 amd64

[Playmo (playmo)]

idem, Intrepid Alpha 6 64bits

[unikob (unikob)]

Same here too, crashes on MySpace musicplayer and especially on MySpace TV. That haven't worked since upgrading to Intrepid, worked sporadically on Hardy though.

[unikob (unikob)]

Confirming this, attached relevant info from syslog.

[Alex Lopez (alfitovdkiv)]

I confirm this on Intrepid Beta 64bit

[Nicola (nicola-seidita)]

Me too.

2008/10/3 Alex Lopez <email address hidden>

> I confirm this on Intrepid Beta 64bit
>
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> Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
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[Salih EMIN (salih-emin)]

[quote=Daniel Stiner]
Kinda a big deal for anyone with a 64bit computer on the internet. Which will soon be most home Ubuntu users.
[/quote]

Sooo True... its realy pain in the !@$

[schmoo2x (louis-ok-computers)]

Confirmed on Intrepid Beta 64-bit. Was also an issue on Hardy 64-bit, was forced to reboot browser on a regular basis while working with Flash Apps. After the upgrade at least it tells me what it was that crashed, specifically... (npviewer.bin crashed) :-S

[Hew (hew)]

A number of flash-related updates have recently been made in Intrepid, including flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.12.10ubuntu1 (Flash 10 RC2). Does the problem still occur with up-to-date Intrepid? Thanks in advance.

[Flair (aurelz)]

Yeah, this happened today after updates.
It could be the addons that I've installed today as well that could of
caused this.
Going to uninstall them and see how it goes, will update you.

Tim

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Hew McLachlan <email address hidden>wrote:

> A number of flash-related updates have recently been made in Intrepid,
> including flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.12.10ubuntu1 (Flash 10 RC2). Does the
> problem still occur with up-to-date Intrepid? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: nspluginwrapper (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "nspluginwrapper" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> while surfing a flash heavy site, such as youtube, npviewer will randomly
> lock up, and i have to force quit it, to start again.
>
> not common, but super annoying.
>

[Wilmar Santos (wilmar-santos)]

I'm using Intrepid and this bug is the most regular.... I'm using flash 10 and the animations look really slow in it... Anybody know why?

[Hew (hew)]

Please make sure you have up-to-date Intrepid. All flash problems I had (including youtube / flash video) seem to have gone with this latest batch of updates. If you are still getting problems, please leave a comment that includes the version of flashplugin-nonfree you have installed (should be 10.0.12.10ubuntu1).

[schmoo2x (louis-ok-computers)]

Just went through the last batch of updates for Intrepid Beta, and just got the error again. For certain, Flash is more stable now, but still not 100%. Makes life difficult when people write admin interfaces in Flash (why flash, why?)
Seems like the number is close to 4 - 4 flash items or more causes the crash.

[Cartman34 (cartman-igstaff)]

Same problem with Interpid Ibex 64 bits. It crashed with Firefox when i am seeing a comic flash.

[Mark Campbell (hashbangfoo)]

I did get some additional data since I had firefox running from a cmd line:

mcampbell@foo:~$ vmware
Launching VMware Web Access using /usr/bin/xdg-open
mcampbell@foo:~$
(npviewer.bin:7093): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed

(npviewer.bin:7296): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed

(npviewer.bin:7296): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: could not reconstruct XVisual from visualID
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: could not reconstruct XVisual from visualID
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: could not reconstruct XVisual from visualID
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: could not reconstruct XVisual from visualID
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: could not reconstruct XVisual from visualID
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: could not reconstruct XVisual from visualID
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: could not reconstruct XVisual from visualID

(npviewer.bin:7613): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed

(npviewer.bin:7613): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
Configuring libraries for first use
Configured /home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/libconf/etc/pango/pango.modules
Configured /home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/libconf/etc/pango/pangorc
Configured /home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/libconf/etc/pango/pangox.aliases
Configured /home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/libconf/etc/fonts/fonts.dtd
Configured /home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/libconf/etc/fonts/local.conf
Configured /home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/libconf/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
Configured /home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
Configured /home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/Clearlooks.gtkrc
Configured /home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
Configured /home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
/home/mcampbell<email address hidden>/plugins/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: 26: 0: not found
Configuration successful

(npviewer.bin:9251): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed

(npviewer.bin:9251): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: NPN_GetURLNotify() invoke: Message type invalid
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: NPN_GetURLNotify() invoke: Message type invalid
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_NewStream() invoke: Message type invalid
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP...

[Julian Menzie (jmenzie)]

Just upgraded to 8.10 beta and I can confirm that I am having the same problem. Whenever I watch anything on Hulu. But I suspect other sites like You tube might exhibit the same behavior.

[alabamahit (alabamahit)]

Yeah, weird thing is .....sometimes it works and sometimes it dont...I
currently went back to 32 bit. and have had no problems with flash.

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Julian Menzie <email address hidden> wrote:

> Just upgraded to 8.10 beta and I can confirm that I am having the same
> problem. Whenever I watch anything on Hulu. But I suspect other sites
> like You tube might exhibit the same behavior.
>
> --
> Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Julian Menzie (jmenzie)]

The reason I switched to Ubuntu is because of 64 bit. I did update my
system..apt-get update/upgrade and so far every has worked nice. I will
watch it for the next couple of days to see if the problem re-ac cures.

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 23:32 +0000, alabamahit wrote:
> Yeah, weird thing is .....sometimes it works and sometimes it dont...I
> currently went back to 32 bit. and have had no problems with flash.
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Julian Menzie <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > Just upgraded to 8.10 beta and I can confirm that I am having the same
> > problem. Whenever I watch anything on Hulu. But I suspect other sites
> > like You tube might exhibit the same behavior.
> >
> > --
> > Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
>

[alabamahit (alabamahit)]

so they have an update for 64 bit to work better now? thats great...Im going
to wait until final comes out then get 64 bit a try again.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Julian Menzie <email address hidden> wrote:

> The reason I switched to Ubuntu is because of 64 bit. I did update my
> system..apt-get update/upgrade and so far every has worked nice. I will
> watch it for the next couple of days to see if the problem re-ac cures.
>
>
> On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 23:32 +0000, alabamahit wrote:
> > Yeah, weird thing is .....sometimes it works and sometimes it dont...I
> > currently went back to 32 bit. and have had no problems with flash.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Julian Menzie <email address hidden>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Just upgraded to 8.10 beta and I can confirm that I am having the same
> > > problem. Whenever I watch anything on Hulu. But I suspect other sites
> > > like You tube might exhibit the same behavior.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
> > > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > > of the bug.
> > >
> >
>
> --
> Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
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>

[quoderat (fullyawake)]

Using Flash 10.0.12.10ubuntu1, this is still occurring. Have all latest updated.

Can attach syslog if necessary, but looks just like the one(s) above.

[tylik (peter-smrcak)]

Hej i have problem with flash player too. Very slow is animations

[Nemanja Misic (nemanja-misic)]

Install Macromedia Flash plugin & Ubuntu restricted extras (Add/Remove
App), remove others Flash App.

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 18:17 +0000, Peter wrote:

> Hej i have problem with flash player too. Very slow is animations
>

[tylik (peter-smrcak)]

yes, but i have 64bit system...

[Julian Menzie (jmenzie)]

what if you have a 64 bit system will this work around also apply? I
have been having freezing, crashing, sputtering problem. *sigh*
Hope this gets fixed in the next couple of weeks.

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 18:42 +0000, Misic wrote:
> Install Macromedia Flash plugin & Ubuntu restricted extras (Add/Remove
> App), remove others Flash App.
>
> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 18:17 +0000, Peter wrote:
>
> > Hej i have problem with flash player too. Very slow is animations
> >
>

[Julian Menzie (jmenzie)]

ok...will give your workaround a shot...Thanks
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On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 19:10 +0000, Peter wrote:
> yes, but i have 64bit system...
>

[tylik (peter-smrcak)]

Becouse i l was looking for Flash plugin from adobe.com, but there is only
for 32bit Linux, not 64...

[Nemanja Misic (nemanja-misic)]

I don't have any problems with (Adobe) flash player in Firefox for amd64
(Ubuntu 8.04).

You must just remove (first) all installed flash plugins and then
install Ubuntu restricted extras

or just open www.youtube.com and plugin flash (Adobe) with Firefox
Browser present.

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 08:53 +0000, Peter wrote:

> Becouse i l was looking for Flash plugin from adobe.com, but there is only
> for 32bit Linux, not 64...
>

[Eternalone (eternalone2012)]

Same problem Amd 64 Phenom 9950 ubuntu 8.10 beta testing.

[shks (sks126)]

Well, My ubuntu 8.10 beta, with isoimage AMD64 labeled and installed by default, installed on my computer with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+.

Resently Adobe released flashplay 10, and 8.10 beta is installed quite closed to the day Adobe released it, I think there was flashplay 10 beta installed in my system, not flashplay 9. Maybe there is something not so smoothly while flashplay 10 is playing,that npviewer locks up.

Adobe flashplay is released with label 32bit, and my system is 64bit kernel, something wrong with libs ?

>Same problem Amd 64 Phenom 9950 ubuntu 8.10 beta testing.
>
>--
>Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
>You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>of the bug.
>
>Status in “nspluginwrapper” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
>Bug description:
>while surfing a flash heavy site, such as youtube, npviewer will randomly lock up, and i have to force quit it, to start again.
>
>not common, but super annoying.

[Fatal_Error (ericvandyck)]

Same problem here , running 8.10 beta , 64 bit and used this methode to make flash work : wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash10_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash10_en.sh

Friendly greetings , eric

[Sean McLean (smclean-gmail)]

I just built nspluginwrapper 1.1.2-0ubuntu1 completely vanilla *except* I commented out the 006_runtime-restart.diff patch, and I've found flash to be much more robust without it; I am no longer required to restart firefox when flash fails. Sometimes, I have to reload the page but that's it. I think this may solve or at least mitigate at lot of the problems people have been having with nspluginwrapper on amd64 ubuntu.

My reasoning for doing this was as follows:

I had these same "gray box" flash problems accompanied by npviewer.bin segfaults in dmesg on hardy. After them, I always had to restart firefox in order to get flash working again.

Someone on another bug pointed out that nspluginwrapper 1.1.x upstream is designed to "survive" these segfaults. I decided to download the vanilla nspluginwrapper 1.1.x from upstream and try it out. As I'd heard, I still experienced the npviewer.bin segfaults in dmesg, but I wasn't required to restart firefox in order to get flash to work after it (reloading pages did not help).

Then intrepid came out, and I saw that ubuntu had moved to nspluginwrapper 1.1.2. Excited, I tried this, only to find the same sort of behavior; flash failing and requiring a firefox restart in order to be fixed.

I watched firefox's stdout/stderr during its execution and I saw that the last message from flash I'd see before firefox required a restart was "ERROR: NPObject %p is not valid!". Curious, I checked the nspluginwrapper source to see where this was defined, and I saw that this message was introduced by 006_runtime-restart.diff.

I commented this patch in debian/patches/series and built/installed a .deb. Then I re-installed flashplugin-nonfree to force nspluginwrapper to re-wrap the plugin. Afterwards, as I began my message, my firefox flash has been behaving much better. When I see segfaults in dmesg, and flash fails to work properly on a page, I can reload and it works just fine every time.

I see that this patch was pulled in from the fedora project, where it originally was written for pre-1.x nspluginwrapper. Is this patch still valid? All I know is I've *always* had problems with nspluginwrapper's that have had this patch applied. From the name and contents of it, it appears that this patch is designed to restart the plugin viewer when it crashes. I believe nspluginwrapper provides this functionality itself now, and the patch is no longer required. Am I wrong?

[Sean McLean (smclean-gmail)]

Arg, I am still having flash crashes that are requiring me to restart firefox despite removing 006_runtime-restart.diff. Ignore previous comment, I suppose!

[draoi99 (draoi99)]

I just got this when I went to this site: http://www.inner-live.com/index.php

I'm using 64-bit.

.

[Ferdinand Tschernitz (fht)]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Julian Menzie <email address hidden> wrote:
> The reason I switched to Ubuntu is because of 64 bit. I did update my
> system..apt-get update/upgrade and so far every has worked nice. I will
> watch it for the next couple of days to see if the problem re-ac cures.
The 64bit-version is why I fully switched to Ubuntu, but the
Flashplayer-problem is/was very annoying as I am working on several
websites which use Flash-videos.
I'm now back to 32bit on an older computer as the 64bit-machine died.
It feels a little bit "quicker" (smoother) for me, don't know why. But
maybe it's just because I know the computer is slower?

[Ferdinand Tschernitz (fht)]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:32 AM, alabamahit <email address hidden> wrote:
> Yeah, weird thing is .....sometimes it works and sometimes it dont...I
> currently went back to 32 bit. and have had no problems with flash.
I am also back to 32bit on an old computer but this is because the
64bit-machine died. As I have the same surfing-habit as I had on the
faster, better equipped machine I can say: No problems on 32bit side,
no more "stuck" videos or jerking when refreshing the buffer (less
RAM, slower CPU, 8 MB graphic card instead of 256).

[Peter (peter-lehmann-dresden)]

npviewer crashes on my amd64 jaunty Alpha5

[Tux (peter-hoogkamer)]

Still crashes here too. Jaunty Alpha 5.

2009/3/1 Peter <email address hidden>:
> npviewer crashes on my amd64 jaunty Alpha5
>
> --
> Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[kernelOfTruth (dalinuxlova)]

confirmed !

for me it also crashes pretty often on Jaunty Alpha 5+

@Ferdinand Tschernitz:

if you really need flash that often, consider setting up a 32-bit chroot from which you can launch a 32bit firefox with 32bit flash

[Gnimmelf (flemmingsteiner-deactivatedaccount)]

sorry dont now how to, guess i will have too wait until it is fixed,
hope it will be !
thanks anyhow flemming

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    From: dalinuxlova [<email address hidden>]
Sent: 3/3/2009 11:57:28 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 158126] Re: Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites
likeyoutube

confirmed !

for me it also crashes pretty often on Jaunty Alpha 5+

@Ferdinand Tschernitz:

if you really need flash that often, consider setting up a 32-bit chroot
from which you can launch a 32bit firefox with 32bit flash

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[kernelOfTruth (dalinuxlova)]

hm, I don't want to go offtopic here but

perhaps the Ubuntu devs could create a script setting up a 32 bit chroot for those users REALLY needing it ?

anyways:

enter: 32 bit chroot ubuntu

into google will reveal the following: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24575 [HOWTO: 32-Bit Chroot on 64-Bit Installs], it's a little old (2005)

an up-to-date howto I found was valid for 8.04 BUT in German - you can use google's translate-feature to translate it to better understand but follow the commands from the original german site otherwise google might screw up the order: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/32-Bit_chroot

good luck :)

I'm also using a system with gentoo ~amd64 and there nspluginwrapper is much more stable compared to the version used in jaunty

[Ignacio Larrain (ilarrain)]

I'm going offtopic here:
I suggest all of you stop using the 32 bit flashplayer + npviewer that
comes with Ubuntu. I suggest you download the 64 bit prerelease of
flashplayer:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

dalinuxlova escribió:
> hm, I don't want to go offtopic here but
>
> perhaps the Ubuntu devs could create a script setting up a 32 bit chroot
> for those users REALLY needing it ?
>
> anyways:
>
> enter: 32 bit chroot ubuntu
>
> into google will reveal the following:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24575 [HOWTO: 32-Bit Chroot on
> 64-Bit Installs], it's a little old (2005)
>
> an up-to-date howto I found was valid for 8.04 BUT in German - you can
> use google's translate-feature to translate it to better understand but
> follow the commands from the original german site otherwise google might
> screw up the order: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/32-Bit_chroot
>
>
> good luck :)
>
>
> I'm also using a system with gentoo ~amd64 and there nspluginwrapper is much more stable compared to the version used in jaunty
>
>

[kernelOfTruth (dalinuxlova)]

no option for me:

before I switched to ubuntu jaunty on my laptop I had used ~amd64 Gentoo and besides the not existing crashes

the 32-bit version is still better

[john k abbott (jka4321)]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 21:56 +0000, Ignacio Larrain wrote:
> I'm going offtopic here:
> I suggest all of you stop using the 32 bit flashplayer + npviewer that
> comes with Ubuntu. I suggest you download the 64 bit prerelease of
> flashplayer:
> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
>
> dalinuxlova escribió:
> > hm, I don't want to go offtopic here but
> >
> > perhaps the Ubuntu devs could create a script setting up a 32 bit chroot
> > for those users REALLY needing it ?
> >
> > anyways:
> >
> > enter: 32 bit chroot ubuntu
> >
> > into google will reveal the following:
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24575 [HOWTO: 32-Bit Chroot on
> > 64-Bit Installs], it's a little old (2005)
> >
> > an up-to-date howto I found was valid for 8.04 BUT in German - you can
> > use google's translate-feature to translate it to better understand but
> > follow the commands from the original german site otherwise google might
> > screw up the order: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/32-Bit_chroot
> >
> >
> > good luck :)
> >
> >
> > I'm also using a system with gentoo ~amd64 and there nspluginwrapper is much more stable compared to the version used in jaunty
> >
> >
>

[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

I can report that it crashes on Ubuntu-Jaunty 64bit.

[gliderdad79 (eddie-eternalshadows)]

I too can report that it crashes on Ubuntu-Jaunty 64bit.

[Yuksel Saliev (yuksbg)]

I too, Ubuntu 9.04 > 64 bits
HP COMPAQ 6715s - Laptop

[Hew (hew)]

No more "me too"s thanks, we know this problem exists. Please only comment if you are providing new useful information about the bug.

[term7599 (jwb7599)]

whatever.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Hew McLachlan <email address hidden>wrote:

> No more "me too"s thanks, we know this problem exists. Please only
> comment if you are providing new useful information about the bug.
>
> --
> Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “nspluginwrapper” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> while surfing a flash heavy site, such as youtube, npviewer will randomly
> lock up, and i have to force quit it, to start again.
>
> not common, but super annoying.
>

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James W. Barbour Sr.

[kernelOfTruth (dalinuxlova)]

I don't know with which security enhancing CFLAGS you have compiled nspluginwrapper on (u)buntu but

afaik I only was able to compile it on Gentoo (I'm a former / part-time gentoo user) without the -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE, ssp and pie setting,

so if you have that enabled or ssp / stack smashing protection, try offering an version which got compiled with less security (e.g. vanilla compiler),

that might sound/be counterintuitive but at least in that way it almost never crashed for me

thanks for your work

[Z Hespelt (zhespelt)]

Just happened back to back to me--couple seconds apart.

[bwallum (rbw2)]

Complete hang. Have to do hardware restart. Jaunty development with updates to 20/3/09. AMD64. Firefox mostly, Free Cell Solitaire once but FF running at the time. Same problem seen in Hardy and Intrepid and subsequently fixed in those releases.

[dirk (dirkmeissner72)]

yes, i confirm this ...

Am Sonntag, den 29.03.2009, 19:40 +0000 schrieb Linus Hoppe:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 178038
> npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_newv() when multiple flash objects are playing simultaneously
>

[Chuck Renner (chuckrenner)]

I found a strange work around for this. On the Adobe website, they state that they have beta support for 64 bit linux for Flash 10. I downloaded and installed. When testing, I found my browser was still using Flash 9 with the nsplugin wrapper. The about:plugins page showed both versions running. I removed all the symlinks pointing to the nsplugin wrapper and created equivalent symlinks to the native Flash 10 library (NOT wrapped), and reloaded my browser. To my astonishment, it worked! The Adobe test page confirmed the new version of flash, as well as about:plugins and a site that required Flash 10. It looks like Adobe may have finally gotten off their butts and acknowledged 64 bit linux. Now, if only Sun would do this with the Java plugin. I've lost count of how many years we've waited on that.

You're results may vary, but maybe if a few others can confirm, it might be time for a Medibuntu package for 64 bit non-free Flash with NO nsplugin wrapper. Be prepared to rollback with Flash 9 and the nsplugin wrapper in case it doesn't work for you.
------Original Message------
From: dirk
Sender: <email address hidden>
To: Chuck Renner
ReplyTo: Bug 158126
Subject: Re: [Bug 158126] Re: Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing siteslike youtube
Sent: Mar 30, 2009 03:28

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038

yes, i confirm this ...

Am Sonntag, den 29.03.2009, 19:40 +0000 schrieb Linus Hoppe:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 178038
> npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_newv() when multiple flash objects are playing simultaneously
>

--
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Bug description:
while surfing a flash heavy site, such as youtube, npviewer will randomly lock up, and i have to force quit it, to start again.

not common, but super annoying.

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[Alberto Aresca (alberto-aresca)]

@Chuck Renner the last versions of sun java (jdk & jre 6b12) finally
support the java-plugin for 64 bits architecture. You should eithr
dowload them from the sun website,or,even easier, you could find them
packaged in some ubuntu's ppa

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Chuck Renner <email address hidden> wrote:
> ults may vary, but maybe if a few others can confirm, it might be time for a Medibuntu package for 64 bit non-free Flash with NO nsplugin wrapper. Be prepared to rollback with Flash 9 and the nsplugin wrapper in case it doesn't work for you.
>

--
Alberto Aresca

[dirk (dirkmeissner72)]

http://everflux.de/java-6u12-bringt-64bit-plugin-fur-ubuntu-linux-947/

-----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
Von: Chuck Renner <email address hidden>
An: <email address hidden>
Verschickt: Mo., 30. Mrz. 2009, 13:32
Thema: Re: [Bug 158126] Re: Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing siteslike youtube

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038

I found a strange work around for this. On the Adobe website, they state
that they have beta support for 64 bit linux for Flash 10. I downloaded
and installed. When testing, I found my browser was still using Flash 9
with the nsplugin wrapper. The about:plugins page showed both versions
running. I removed all the symlinks pointing to the nsplugin wrapper and
created equivalent symlinks to the native Flash 10 library (NOT
wrapped), and reloaded my browser. To my astonishment, it worked! The
Adobe test page confirmed the new version of flash, as well as
about:plugins and a site that required Flash 10. It looks like Adobe
may have finally gotten off their butts and acknowledged 64 bit linux.
Now, if only Sun would do this with the Java plugin. I've lost count of
how many years we've waited on that.

You're results may vary, but maybe if a few others can confirm, it might be time
for a Medibuntu package for 64 bit non-free Flash with NO nsplugin wrapper. Be
prepared to rollback with Flash 9 and the nsplugin wrapper in case it doesn't
work for you.
------Original Message------
From: dirk
S
ender: <email address hidden>
To: Chuck Renner
ReplyTo: Bug 158126
Subject: Re: [Bug 158126] Re: Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing siteslike
youtube
Sent: Mar 30, 2009 03:28

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038

yes, i confirm this ...

Am Sonntag, den 29.03.2009, 19:40 +0000 schrieb Linus Hoppe:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 178038
> npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_newv() when multiple flash
objects are playing simultaneously
>

--
Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
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of the bug.

Status in “nspluginwrapper” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
while surfing a flash heavy site, such as youtube, npviewer will randomly lock
up, and i have to force quit it, to start again.

not common, but super annoying.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
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Bug description:
while surfing a flash heavy site, such as youtube, npviewer will randomly lock
up, and i have to force quit it, to start again
..

not common, but super annoying.

________________________________________________________________________
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[dirk (dirkmeissner72)]

http://everflux.de/java-6u12-bringt-64bit-plugin-fur-ubuntu-linux-947/

-----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
Von: Alberto Aresca <email address hidden>
An: <email address hidden>
Verschickt: Mo., 30. Mrz. 2009, 17:14
Thema: Re: [Bug 158126] Re: Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing siteslike youtube

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038

@Chuck Renner the last versions of sun java (jdk & jre 6b12) finally
support the java-plugin for 64 bits architecture. You should eithr
dowload them from the sun website,or,even easier, you could find them
packaged in some ubuntu's ppa

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Chuck Renner <email address hidden> wrote:
> ults may vary, but maybe if a few others can confirm, it might be time for a
Medibuntu package for 64 bit non-free Flash with NO nsplugin wrapper. Be
prepared to rollback with Flash 9 and the nsplugin wrapper in case it doesn't
work for you.
>

--
Alberto Aresca

--
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Bug description:
while surfing a flash heavy site, such as youtube, npviewer will randomly lock
up, and i have to force quit it, to start again.

not common, but super annoying.

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[Blake Munro (blake-munro)]

Chuck,

Sorry to give you the bad news, but your discovery is old news. Both Adobe
and Sun have released native 64 bit plugins that work with Jaunty (not
tested on other platforms, but don't see any reason why they would not
work).

Do some googling. A helpful poster has put some random links a few posts
above but they all seem to be 403 forbidden at this stage.

Essentially I have been running Flash 10 Alpha 64 bit and Sun Java 64 bit in
my 64 bit firefox browser on my 64 bit OS for quite some time :) So just
look around and you will find that the instructions are provided on quite a
few sites.

If you get really stuck, email me off list and I'll tell you how to do it.

Cheers
Blake

2009/3/30 Chuck Renner <email address hidden>

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
>
> I found a strange work around for this. On the Adobe website, they state
> that they have beta support for 64 bit linux for Flash 10. I downloaded
> and installed. When testing, I found my browser was still using Flash 9
> with the nsplugin wrapper. The about:plugins page showed both versions
> running. I removed all the symlinks pointing to the nsplugin wrapper and
> created equivalent symlinks to the native Flash 10 library (NOT
> wrapped), and reloaded my browser. To my astonishment, it worked! The
> Adobe test page confirmed the new version of flash, as well as
> about:plugins and a site that required Flash 10. It looks like Adobe
> may have finally gotten off their butts and acknowledged 64 bit linux.
> Now, if only Sun would do this with the Java plugin. I've lost count of
> how many years we've waited on that.
>
> You're results may vary, but maybe if a few others can confirm, it might be
> time for a Medibuntu package for 64 bit non-free Flash with NO nsplugin
> wrapper. Be prepared to rollback with Flash 9 and the nsplugin wrapper in
> case it doesn't work for you.
> ------Original Message------
> From: dirk
> Sender: <email address hidden>
> To: Chuck Renner
> ReplyTo: Bug 158126
> Subject: Re: [Bug 158126] Re: Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing
> siteslike youtube
> Sent: Mar 30, 2009 03:28
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
>
> yes, i confirm this ...
>
>
> Am Sonntag, den 29.03.2009, 19:40 +0000 schrieb Linus Hoppe:
> > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
> >
> > ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 178038
> > npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_newv() when multiple
> flash objects are playing simultaneously
> >
>
> --
> Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like youtube
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158126
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “nspluginwrapper” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> while surfing a flash heavy site, such as youtube, npviewer will randomly
> lock up, and i have to force quit it, to start again.
>
> not common, but super annoying.
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> --
> Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing sites like yo...

[diantre (hiramsito2)]

thanks for the information but now im runing linux mint 6 and is amaizing easy but i still love ubuntu. linux make me more love my computer :D take care and have a nice day thanks for you work

> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:46:12 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Bug 158126] Re: Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing siteslike youtube
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
>
> Chuck,
>
> Sorry to give you the bad news, but your discovery is old news. Both Adobe
> and Sun have released native 64 bit plugins that work with Jaunty (not
> tested on other platforms, but don't see any reason why they would not
> work).
>
> Do some googling. A helpful poster has put some random links a few posts
> above but they all seem to be 403 forbidden at this stage.
>
> Essentially I have been running Flash 10 Alpha 64 bit and Sun Java 64 bit in
> my 64 bit firefox browser on my 64 bit OS for quite some time :) So just
> look around and you will find that the instructions are provided on quite a
> few sites.
>
> If you get really stuck, email me off list and I'll tell you how to do
> it.
>
> Cheers
> Blake
>
> 2009/3/30 Chuck Renner <email address hidden>
>
> > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
> >
> > I found a strange work around for this. On the Adobe website, they state
> > that they have beta support for 64 bit linux for Flash 10. I downloaded
> > and installed. When testing, I found my browser was still using Flash 9
> > with the nsplugin wrapper. The about:plugins page showed both versions
> > running. I removed all the symlinks pointing to the nsplugin wrapper and
> > created equivalent symlinks to the native Flash 10 library (NOT
> > wrapped), and reloaded my browser. To my astonishment, it worked! The
> > Adobe test page confirmed the new version of flash, as well as
> > about:plugins and a site that required Flash 10. It looks like Adobe
> > may have finally gotten off their butts and acknowledged 64 bit linux.
> > Now, if only Sun would do this with the Java plugin. I've lost count of
> > how many years we've waited on that.
> >
> > You're results may vary, but maybe if a few others can confirm, it might be
> > time for a Medibuntu package for 64 bit non-free Flash with NO nsplugin
> > wrapper. Be prepared to rollback with Flash 9 and the nsplugin wrapper in
> > case it doesn't work for you.
> > ------Original Message------
> > From: dirk
> > Sender: <email address hidden>
> > To: Chuck Renner
> > ReplyTo: Bug 158126
> > Subject: Re: [Bug 158126] Re: Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing
> > siteslike youtube
> > Sent: Mar 30, 2009 03:28
> >
> > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
> >
> > yes, i confirm this ...
> >
> >
> > Am Sonntag, den 29.03.2009, 19:40 +0000 schrieb Linus Hoppe:
> > > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
> > >
> > > ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 178038
> > > npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_new...

[因为爱你 (szmailor)]

2009/4/7 diantre <email address hidden>

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
>
>
> thanks for the information but now im runing linux mint 6 and is
> amaizing easy but i still love ubuntu. linux make me more love my
> computer :D take care and have a nice day thanks for you work
>
> > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:46:12 +0000
> > From: <email address hidden>
> > To: <email address hidden>
> > Subject: Re: [Bug 158126] Re: Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing
> siteslike youtube
> >
> > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
> >
> > Chuck,
> >
> > Sorry to give you the bad news, but your discovery is old news. Both
> Adobe
> > and Sun have released native 64 bit plugins that work with Jaunty (not
> > tested on other platforms, but don't see any reason why they would not
> > work).
> >
> > Do some googling. A helpful poster has put some random links a few posts
> > above but they all seem to be 403 forbidden at this stage.
> >
> > Essentially I have been running Flash 10 Alpha 64 bit and Sun Java 64 bit
> in
> > my 64 bit firefox browser on my 64 bit OS for quite some time :) So just
> > look around and you will find that the instructions are provided on quite
> a
> > few sites.
> >
> > If you get really stuck, email me off list and I'll tell you how to do
> > it.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Blake
> >
> > 2009/3/30 Chuck Renner <email address hidden>
> >
> > > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
> > >
> > > I found a strange work around for this. On the Adobe website, they
> state
> > > that they have beta support for 64 bit linux for Flash 10. I downloaded
> > > and installed. When testing, I found my browser was still using Flash 9
> > > with the nsplugin wrapper. The about:plugins page showed both versions
> > > running. I removed all the symlinks pointing to the nsplugin wrapper
> and
> > > created equivalent symlinks to the native Flash 10 library (NOT
> > > wrapped), and reloaded my browser. To my astonishment, it worked! The
> > > Adobe test page confirmed the new version of flash, as well as
> > > about:plugins and a site that required Flash 10. It looks like Adobe
> > > may have finally gotten off their butts and acknowledged 64 bit linux.
> > > Now, if only Sun would do this with the Java plugin. I've lost count
> of
> > > how many years we've waited on that.
> > >
> > > You're results may vary, but maybe if a few others can confirm, it
> might be
> > > time for a Medibuntu package for 64 bit non-free Flash with NO nsplugin
> > > wrapper. Be prepared to rollback with Flash 9 and the nsplugin wrapper
> in
> > > case it doesn't work for you.
> > > ------Original Message------
> > > From: dirk
> > > Sender: <email address hidden>
> > > To: Chuck Renner
> > > ReplyTo: Bug 158126
> > > Subject: Re: [Bug 158126] Re: Npviewer randomly freezes while surfing
> > > siteslike youtube
> > > Sent: Mar 30, 2009 03:28
> > >
> > > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 178038 ***
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038
> > >
> > > yes, i confirm this ...
> > >
> > >
> > >...