Bug 458292

Summary:	No sound, segfaults with flash
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tom London <selinux>
Component:	nspluginwrapper	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tom London 2008-08-07 14:40:15 UTC

Description of problem:
I get no sound playing flash objects, either with flash-plugin or with swfdec.

In addition, I see npviewer.bin segfaults in /var/log/messages:
Aug  7 07:23:49 localhost kernel: npviewer.bin[5111]: segfault at aaaaaaaa ip 0080c5f8 sp bfac6ca0 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.1706.0[7e3000+42000]
Aug  7 07:24:37 localhost kernel: npviewer.bin[5443]: segfault at aaaaaaaa ip 0080c5f8 sp bfa98c70 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.1706.0[7e3000+42000]
Aug  7 07:25:22 localhost kernel: npviewer.bin[5582]: segfault at aaaaaaaa ip 0080c5f8 sp bf972350 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.1706.0[7e3000+42000]

An example URL is 'http://nytimes.com'  [Big flash object about one screen down.]


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nspluginwrapper-1.1.0-5.fc10.i386

How reproducible:
Every time

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Comment 1 Warren Togami 2008-08-07 17:20:35 UTC

If you are using Flash 9, then you need libflashsupport.i386 installed for sound to work.  There are known sound related race conditions in Flash 9 that can cause npviewer.bin to crash.

If you are using Flash 10 beta, it no longer needs libflashsupport.i386, however it triggers a bug in Firefox 3 causing firefox to crash.  This will be fixed in the upcoming firefox-3.0.2.

Comment 2 Tom London 2008-08-07 20:10:06 UTC

OK.  Thanks.  Running flash 9:
flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386
libflashsupport-000-0.5.svn20070904.i386

Installing libflashsupport.i386 indeed fixes the lack of sound. Thanks!

Per your message, I still get segfault, I believe when I close the tab....

Aug  7 13:04:14 localhost yum: Installed: libflashsupport-000-0.5.svn20070904.i386
Aug  7 13:06:32 localhost kernel: npviewer.bin[17145]: segfault at aaaaaaaa ip 0080c5f8 sp bfa07180 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.1706.0[7e3000+42000]

Comment 3 Warren Togami 2008-08-08 04:23:10 UTC

AFAIK the crashes you are experiencing are due to bugs in Flash 9 itself.  Nothing we can do about it.