Description of problem: After the last updates this week I am having serious issues with flash movies. From a fresh boot I startup firefox and flash movies start doing weird stuff after about 1 - 2 minutes of play. Either they fast forward to the end - they stop at all and refuse to play. If I refresh the page the flash movie starts playing with no audio. This behavior is combined with a high cpu usage of npviewer.bin as well as it remaining persistent in memory (though I don't know if that is normal behaviour). The solution is to kill npviewer.bin with gnome-system-monitor (or ps aux/kill id) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Adobe Flash 10 / FireFox 3.5.1 Linux 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586 Steps to Reproduce: 1. In FF goto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBQbP87nsAw&feature=popular 2. Play the movie - after a few minutes weird stuff starts happening: fast forward play or movie stops playing 3. Hit ctrl+f5 or f5 and try again: no audio 4. Kill npviewer.bin - refresh page - flash movie now plays again. Actual results: Flash movie stops (refuses to play again). Flash movie starts playing in fast forward speeds. Flash movie plays with no audio if page is refreshed. Expected results: Ability to see flash movies on digg while at work ;) Additional info: I have great bandwidth of 1.2 real megabytes per second download on bittorrent - so that can't be it. I've also haven't had this before the latest update.
New behavior: This now has started to happen while watching a local .avi file with vlc. While I was playing a flash movie at the same time. Pulse Audio was on channel futex_wait VLC & npviewer.bin also both futex_wait Don't know if that means anything but it's recurring everytime this issue happens.
I'm seeing this too with that kernel update. Note I also saw it with a 2.6.30 kernel from the testing repo which I tried a month ago. Bug 514097 could be the same issue I think? $ lspci | grep -Fi audio 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
It could very well be because I've got: $ lspci | grep -Fi audio 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) Anyways I've just ordered a Macbook Pro because the last stable install I had where everything worked was F9 for which support was discontinued with F11. It might be IBM Thinkpad specific... but it's just not viable for a business user.
Hmm this could be a dupe of bug 513855
I need to be watchful for a few more days but the problem seems to be fixed for me with kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i68
I conclude it works fine for me using kernel in comment#5
Thanks for letting us know. Andrew, could you confirm please, that this has been fixed in kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11? Thank you
(In reply to comment #7) > Thanks for letting us know. Andrew, could you confirm please, that this has > been fixed in kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11? > > Thank you Original reporter, just a reminder this is back to you for response. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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