Comment 58 for bug 177856

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Yang (yaaang) wrote :

Installed the nspluginwrapper package (running Ubuntu 8.10), but still no luck:

$ uname -a
Linux yang-xps410 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ sudo dpkg -i nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
dpkg - warning: downgrading nspluginwrapper from 1.1.2-0ubuntu1 to 0.9.91.5-1ubuntu2.
(Reading database ... 274569 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace nspluginwrapper 1.1.2-0ubuntu1 (using nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement nspluginwrapper ...
Setting up nspluginwrapper (0.9.91.5-1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...

Then removed the and installed the 64-bit Flash 10 alpha from Adobe, but that leads to a segfault in the plugin:

$ sudo aptitude remove nspluginwrapper
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  flashplugin-nonfree
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  nspluginwrapper
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 483kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  flashplugin-nonfree: Depends: nspluginwrapper (>= 0.9.91.4-2ubuntu1) but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
flashplugin-nonfree

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
ubuntu-restricted-extras recommends flashplugin-nonfree
Score is -81

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  flashplugin-nonfree{a} nspluginwrapper
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 651kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 274568 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing flashplugin-nonfree ...
Removing nspluginwrapper ...
dpkg - warning: while removing nspluginwrapper, directory `/usr/lib/firefox/plugins' not empty so not removed.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done

$ gdb --args /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5/firefox
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5/firefox -P default -no-remote
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[New Thread 0x7f99d16ad6f0 (LWP 19655)]
[New Thread 0x41339950 (LWP 19660)]
/usr/share/themes/Blubuntu/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:169: Clearlooks configuration option "progressbarstyle" is not supported and will be ignored.
[New Thread 0x420f8950 (LWP 19661)]
[New Thread 0x40856950 (LWP 19662)]
[Thread 0x40856950 (LWP 19662) exited]
[New Thread 0x428f9950 (LWP 19663)]
[Thread 0x428f9950 (LWP 19663) exited]
[New Thread 0x428f9950 (LWP 19664)]
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
[New Thread 0x40856950 (LWP 19665)]
[New Thread 0x430fa950 (LWP 19666)]
[New Thread 0x438fb950 (LWP 19667)]
[Thread 0x438fb950 (LWP 19667) exited]
[New Thread 0x438fb950 (LWP 19668)]
[New Thread 0x440fc950 (LWP 19669)]
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
[New Thread 0x448fd950 (LWP 19673)]
[New Thread 0x450fe950 (LWP 19674)]
[New Thread 0x458ff950 (LWP 19676)]
[Thread 0x428f9950 (LWP 19664) exited]
[New Thread 0x428f9950 (LWP 19677)]
[Thread 0x438fb950 (LWP 19668) exited]
[New Thread 0x438fb950 (LWP 19678)]
[New Thread 0x46100950 (LWP 19679)]
[New Thread 0x46901950 (LWP 19680)]
[Thread 0x428f9950 (LWP 19677) exited]
[New Thread 0x428f9950 (LWP 19681)]
[New Thread 0x47102950 (LWP 19682)]
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)
ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG = (null)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f99d16ad6f0 (LWP 19655)]
0x00007f99ae013702 in ?? () from /home/yang/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
(gdb) #0 0x00007f99ae013702 in ?? ()
   from /home/yang/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#1 0x00007f99ae013818 in ?? ()
   from /home/yang/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#2 0x00007f99ae013d3a in ?? ()
   from /home/yang/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#3 0x00007f99ae25e310 in ?? ()
   from /home/yang/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#4 0x00007f99a59e9a16 in ?? ()
#5 0x00007f99aac760c0 in ?? ()
#6 0x00007f99c1c099d4 in ?? ()
#7 0x00007f99a5f89628 in ?? ()
#8 0x00007f99ae2dffb5 in ?? ()
   from /home/yang/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#9 0x00007f99a5ff4b80 in ?? ()
#10 0x00007fffd96cb1c0 in ?? ()
#11 0x00007f99aadc0000 in ?? ()
#12 0x00007f99a601efd8 in ?? ()
#13 0x00007f99a5fcf7c0 in ?? ()
#14 0x00007f99a601f190 in ?? ()
#15 0x00007f99a5ff1908 in ?? ()
#16 0x0000008500000006 in ?? ()
#17 0x0000000000000010 in ?? ()
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---#18 0x00007f99aacc4500 in ?? ()
#19 0x00007f99aacea560 in ?? ()
#20 0x00007f99aac39490 in ?? ()
#21 0x00007f99a601e970 in ?? ()
#22 0x00007f99aac760c0 in ?? ()
#23 0x00007f99a601f190 in ?? ()
#24 0x00007f99aacc4e20 in ?? ()
#25 0x00007f99a601f190 in ?? ()
#26 0x00007f99a601e970 in ?? ()
#27 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) quit
The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n)

Anyway, I've mainly been testing on Colbert Report videos from both hulu.com and colbertnation.com. These were some of the few pages that I couldn't even view at all. Other sites (like youtube etc.) would lead to gray/missing boxes only sometimes.