Bug 598793 - Display freezes when viewing fullscreen Adobe Flash content
Summary: Display freezes when viewing fullscreen Adobe Flash content
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-06-02 03:44 UTC by Andreas Fleig
Modified: 2018-04-11 17:54 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-06-27 17:18:46 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Xorg logfile. Log starts just before going fullscreen and zapping the X server. (204.02 KB, text/plain)
2010-06-02 03:44 UTC, Andreas Fleig
no flags Details
Xorg logfile with drm.debug=0x04 (65.74 KB, text/plain)
2010-06-03 00:32 UTC, Andreas Fleig
no flags Details
/var/log/messages with drm.debug=0x04 (1005.40 KB, text/plain)
2010-06-03 00:33 UTC, Andreas Fleig
no flags Details
dmesg after freeze with drm.debug=0x04 (80.88 KB, text/plain)
2010-06-03 00:33 UTC, Andreas Fleig
no flags Details

Description Andreas Fleig 2010-06-02 03:44:19 UTC
Created attachment 418895 [details]
Xorg logfile. Log starts just before going fullscreen and zapping the X server.

Description of problem:
Viewing Flash content in fullscreen mode instantly freezes the display. Switching to a text console does not help (the console is not shown). The display can only be recovered by restarting the X server.

Not all flash content is affected. Youtube, for example, works as it should.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Name       : xorg-x11-drv-intel
Arch       : x86_64
Version    : 2.11.0
Release    : 4.fc13

Linux 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always, for certain pages

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open this webpage:
   http://dpreview.com/galleries/reviewsamples/albums/panasonic-lumix-g-fisheye-8mm-f3-5-preview-samples/slideshow
2. Go Fullscreen
  
Actual results:
Display freezes

Expected results:
Choppy fullscreen flash content :-)

Additional info:
Hardware: Thinkpad R61, Intel 965GM Graphics
LVDS1 output disabled, using DVI1

Comment 1 Werner Gold 2010-06-02 08:47:25 UTC
Similar issue here. (32bit) Intel Graphics.

It doesn't always freeze and the external display seems to freeze more often. Maybe because it has higher resolution ?!?
I _can_ switch back to console and kill X (with signal 15). But sometimes it doesn't restart nicely afterwords and I need to reboot. Even killing the displaymanager doesn't bring it back. ->kernel?

When it freezes there is no logfile entry in the xorg.logs, but I found the following in messages:

Jun  2 10:23:17 localhost kernel: npviewer.bin[3635]: segfault at b69cef60 ip 00a4d1cd sp b50a1e64 error 4
Jun  2 10:23:17 localhost kernel: npviewer.bin[3608]: segfault at b6878030 ip 00a4d1cd sp bfd51834 error 4 in libpthread-2.12.so[a45000+17000]
Jun  2 10:23:17 localhost kernel: in libpthread-2.12.so[a45000+17000]

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2010-06-02 22:56:56 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the dmesg command after the freeze happens (you can get it from console), and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 3 Andreas Fleig 2010-06-03 00:32:55 UTC
Created attachment 419218 [details]
Xorg logfile with drm.debug=0x04

Comment 4 Andreas Fleig 2010-06-03 00:33:25 UTC
Created attachment 419219 [details]
/var/log/messages with drm.debug=0x04

Comment 5 Andreas Fleig 2010-06-03 00:33:48 UTC
Created attachment 419220 [details]
dmesg after freeze with drm.debug=0x04

Comment 6 Andreas Fleig 2010-06-03 00:40:45 UTC
When not using DVI, I can switch back to the console after the freeze. The cursor still works, if that helps. The cursor type even changes (e.g. to hand cursor over a link.)

I couldn't find flash segfaulting anywhere in the logs, though.

Comment 7 Christopher J. Buckley 2010-06-23 21:06:00 UTC
I experience exactly the same behaviour, yet it DOES occur in youtube.com for me. I note that the crash does not always occur, but only after exiting full-screen 2-3 times, then upon re-entering full screen it crashes.  

Side note: I think Jobs has a point about Flash....

Comment 8 Andreas Fleig 2010-06-23 22:07:27 UTC
Since the Flash update to 10.1.53.64 (and from 64 to 32 bit) I did not experience any crashes. Flash runs stable und shockingly smooth ;-)

Comment 9 Christopher J. Buckley 2010-06-24 10:21:47 UTC
This does not fix the issue for me.

[root@ahx-thinkpad ~]# rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-plugin-10.1.53.64-release.i386

I still receive constant white screens in FS mode.

Comment 10 Nikolas Moraitis 2010-06-27 11:26:00 UTC
Jun 27 12:52:23 localhost kernel: npviewer.bin[6158]: segfault at 0 ip 000000000119d041 sp 00000000ffa8efe0 error 4 in libflashplayer.so[dfe000+b04000]
Jun 27 12:52:23 localhost abrt[6185]: saved core dump of pid 6158 (/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin) to /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1277632343-6158.new/coredump (10731520 bytes)
Jun 27 12:52:23 localhost abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-1277632343-6158' creation detected
Jun 27 12:52:23 localhost abrtd: Blacklisted package 'nspluginwrapper'
Jun 27 12:52:23 localhost abrtd: Corrupted or bad crash /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1277632343-6158 (res:2), deleting

Comment 11 Matěj Cepl 2010-06-28 10:18:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #10)
> Jun 27 12:52:23 localhost kernel: npviewer.bin[6158]: segfault at 0 ip
> 000000000119d041 sp 00000000ffa8efe0 error 4 in
> libflashplayer.so[dfe000+b04000]
> Jun 27 12:52:23 localhost abrt[6185]: saved core dump of pid 6158
> (/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin) to
> /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1277632343-6158.new/coredump (10731520 bytes)
> Jun 27 12:52:23 localhost abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-1277632343-6158' creation
> detected
> Jun 27 12:52:23 localhost abrtd: Blacklisted package 'nspluginwrapper'
> Jun 27 12:52:23 localhost abrtd: Corrupted or bad crash
> /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1277632343-6158 (res:2), deleting    

That's segfault in flash plugin with which we cannot help.

Comment 12 Ivan Stojmirov 2010-11-24 20:42:36 UTC
I believe most of the people here are not complaining about flash segfaulting but more about its ability to completely freeze xorg. Is it really supposed to be able to do that?

On a side note, this bug is probably related to 624731.

Comment 13 Matěj Cepl 2010-12-23 12:59:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #12)
> On a side note, this bug is probably related to 624731.

I don't think so ... bug 624731 is about Arrandale, which stands in the class for itself. At least reporter of this bug has PCI ID 8086:2a02, not Arrandale.

Comment 14 Matěj Cepl 2011-01-18 11:17:24 UTC
I wonder whether this bug isn't related to bug 670417

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