[arch-general] Something is seriously wrong with FlashPlugin; makes chrome & firefox crash like crazy

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Gaurish Sharma <contact at gaurishsharma.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> Flashplugin keep crashing which makes Firefox unstable. with chrome, only
> the
> plugin crashes. But this way I am not able to experiance any flash based
> website. the thing that annoy me is that flash does work fine my lappy with
> OpenSuse.
>
> Anyone experiencing similar issues?
>
>
> Logs
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> gaurish ~ > gdb firefox
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1
> Copyright (C) 2009 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-unknown-linux-gnu".
> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/firefox...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/firefox
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe8df2710 (LWP 25663)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe83e8710 (LWP 25664)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe7be7710 (LWP 25665)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe6aff710 (LWP 25669)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe33f4710 (LWP 25670)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe2bf3710 (LWP 25671)]
> [Thread 0x7fffe2bf3710 (LWP 25671) exited]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe2bf3710 (LWP 25672)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe164a710 (LWP 25673)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe0e49710 (LWP 25676)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe0442710 (LWP 25677)]
> [Thread 0x7fffe0442710 (LWP 25677) exited]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe0442710 (LWP 25678)]
> [Thread 0x7fffe0442710 (LWP 25678) exited]
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so: wrong
> ELF class: ELFCLASS32]
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so: wrong
> ELF class: ELFCLASS32]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe0442710 (LWP 25679)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd64ff710 (LWP 25680)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd59ff710 (LWP 25684)]
> [Thread 0x7fffd59ff710 (LWP 25684) exited]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd59ff710 (LWP 25688)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd20ff710 (LWP 25689)]
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007fffda43ba42 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007fffda43ba42 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> #1  0x00007fffda43bb58 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> #2  0x00007fffda43c15a in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> #3  0x00007fffda43fa0e in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> #4  0x00007fffda5755c1 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> #5  0x00007fffda491e4a in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> #6  0x00007fffda53d93e in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> #7  0x00007fffda53dec8 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> #8  0x00007fffda5df95c in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> #9  0x00007fffda268239 in ?? () from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> #10 0x00007ffff5b6974e in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #11 0x00007ffff5b6f5f0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #12 0x00007ffff5506779 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #13 0x00007ffff5506779 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #14 0x00007ffff554d345 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #15 0x00007ffff54f25c5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #16 0x00007ffff54f26ab in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #17 0x00007ffff5cc4a28 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #18 0x00007ffff5cd786b in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #19 0x00007ffff5cac385 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #20 0x00007ffff5c31f11 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #21 0x00007ffff5b09e5e in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #22 0x00007ffff547cc22 in XRE_main () from
> /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
> #23 0x0000000000402366 in ?? ()
> #24 0x00007ffff7376b6d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #25 0x0000000000401b19 in ?? ()
> #26 0x00007fffffffe5b8 in ?? ()
> #27 0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
> #28 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
> #29 0x00007fffffffe8e2 in ?? ()
> #30 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb) kill
> Kill the program being debugged? (y or n) y
> (gdb) quit
>
> gaurish ~ > google-chrome
> [26339:26339:85939977573:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official-
> linux-64/build/src/chrome/browser/tab_contents/tab_contents.cc(1762)] Not
> implemented reached in virtual void TabContents::OnCrashedPlugin(const
> FilePath&) convert plugin path to plugin name
> [26339:26339:85939978034:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official-
> linux-64/build/src/chrome/browser/tab_contents/tab_contents.cc(1762)] Not
> implemented reached in virtual void TabContents::OnCrashedPlugin(const
> FilePath&) convert plugin path to plugin name
> [26339:26339:85939978401:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official-
> linux-64/build/src/chrome/browser/tab_contents/tab_contents.cc(1762)] Not
> implemented reached in virtual void TabContents::OnCrashedPlugin(const
> FilePath&) convert plugin path to plugin name
>
>
> [1] Flashplugin Version        : 10.0.45.2-1
>
> --
> Regards,
> Gaurish Sharma
> www.gaurishsharma.com
>

Try reinstalling the package. I don't think you've the source for
flashplayer right ? So if that doesn't work you've to use something
compatible like gnash, etc.

-- 
Nilesh Govindarajan
Site & Server Administrator
www.itech7.com