Bug 14250

Summary:	late versions of swfdec pluggin cause frequent crashes
Product:	swfdec	Reporter:	Petros Moisiadis <ernest0x>
Component:	plugin	Assignee:	swfdec ml <swfdec>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	swfdec ml <swfdec>
Severity:	critical
Priority:	medium
Version:	0.5.5
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	backtrace

Description Petros Moisiadis 2008-01-25 09:16:32 UTC

For example, when I' m trying to load: http://www.sportime.gr, firefox crashes with the following output: 

Unsupported movie property quality with value "high"
Unsupported movie property wmode with value "opaque"
Unsupported movie property swliveconnect with value "0"
Unsupported movie property allowscriptaccess with value "always"
Unsupported movie property wmode with value "transparent"
Unsupported movie property quality with value "high"
Unsupported movie property name with value "theMovie"
Unsupported movie property pluginspage with value "http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
Unsupported movie property align with value ""
Unsupported movie property quality with value "high"
Unsupported movie property wmode with value "transparent"
Unsupported movie property pluginspage with value "http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
Unsupported movie property quality with value "high"
Unsupported movie property swliveconnect with value "0"
Unsupported movie property name with value "bet365_250x250_3234"
Unsupported movie property pluginspage with value "https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
Unsupported movie property align with value ""
Unsupported movie property quality with value "high"
Unsupported movie property name with value "betson_468x60"
Unsupported movie property pluginspage with value "http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
Unsupported movie property align with value ""
Unsupported movie property quality with value "high"
Unsupported movie property name with value "banner_small"
Unsupported movie property allowscriptaccess with value "sameDomain"
Unsupported movie property pluginspage with value "http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
Unsupported movie property align with value "middle"
Unsupported movie property quality with value "high"
Unsupported movie property name with value "unileague"
Unsupported movie property pluginspage with value "http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
Unsupported movie property align with value ""
Unsupported movie property quality with value "high"
Unsupported movie property wmode with value "transparent"
Unsupported movie property pluginspage with value "http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
Unsupported movie property quality with value "high"
Unsupported movie property wmode with value "transparent"
Unsupported movie property pluginspage with value "http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
Unsupported movie property wmode with value "transparent"
Unsupported movie property quality with value "high"
Unsupported movie property name with value "theMovie"
Unsupported movie property pluginspage with value "http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
unhandled event 19
Loading stream: about:blank
/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.11/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  9388 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Using gnash instead of swfdec, I rarely get crashes for the same sites (if I get any).
Also, swfdec is particularly 'crashy' after 0.5.3 or 0.5.4 I think. The frequent crashes that I' m reporting here appeared in late releases. Before these releases, swfdec pluggin rarely caused firefox to crash. Maybe it has to do with something that was introduced lately?
Also, if that's somehow useful, I' m using precompiled packages provided in Archlinux official x86-64 repositories.

Comment 1 Benjamin Otte 2008-01-25 10:53:27 UTC

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
Without a stack trace from the crash it's very hard to determine what caused it.
Can you get us a stack trace? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do so. Thanks in advance!

Comment 2 Petros Moisiadis 2008-01-25 11:45:36 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
> Without a stack trace from the crash it's very hard to determine what caused
> it.
> Can you get us a stack trace? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces
> for more information on how to do so. Thanks in advance!
> 

Sure, but since there are no debug packages for my distro, I should recompile them to take a stack trace. What packages, besides swfdec, do you think I should recompile? Are those that my distro's packaging system reports as dependencies fore swfdec enough?

Comment 3 Benjamin Otte 2008-01-25 12:25:28 UTC

Recompiling swfdec and swfdec-mozilla should be enough in 90% of the cases. If it's not, I can tell you after having seen the stack trace.

Comment 4 Petros Moisiadis 2008-01-26 05:06:30 UTC

Created attachment 13955 [details]
backtrace

Comment 5 Benjamin Otte 2008-01-28 03:11:35 UTC

This shouldn't happen anymore with current git, as that part of the code has been rewritten, so you could either try compiling git or wait for 0.5.6 and then test again.

Comment 6 Riccardo Magliocchetti 2008-04-11 09:08:14 UTC

Petros, could you please compile a new version (0.6.4) and retry?

Comment 7 Riccardo Magliocchetti 2008-05-28 01:55:10 UTC

Please reopen if it still happens with a newer version of swfdec.

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