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Flash Causes Firefox 2.0 to crash in Edgy

Bug #68086 reported by EricIndieRocks
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Bug Description

If the flashplugin-nonfree or flashplayer-mozilla packages are installed, whenever you visit a site with any Flash content, firefox crashes. Below is my printout from console.
I'm using the most up to date packages in Edgy, and the most up to date nVidia driver. (Resubmitted for Firefox 2.0 Final, rather than Beta versions)

eric@eric-laptop:~$ firefox -safe-mode --sync
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode: 147
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode: 147
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 148 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
eric@eric-laptop:~$ firefox --sync
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode: 147
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode: 147
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode: 147
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode: 147
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 148 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote :

As it says that "The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error." I'm subscribing the X swat team.

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Bart Martens (bartm) wrote :

Flash works fine with Firefox on all websites I tried with these packages installed:

firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-1
flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.21.55.1

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waldheinz (waldheinz) wrote :

It crashes for me, too. I upgraded a computer today from dapper to edgy, which worked finde so far. But firefox crashes when flashplugon-nonfree is installed and any site with flash content is visited.

It does NOT crash if I use a terminal and start firefox using

$ export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
$ firefox

(I searched for my problem and came across this hint.)

Maybe it's worth mentioning the display on this computer runs at 16bpp. Flash seems to have (had?) some problems with that. Nevertheless, I habe absolutely no problems under dapper.

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waldheinz (waldheinz) wrote :

As it seems this issue is already discussed as a firefox-bug here:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/14911

They say it's because the composite extension is enabled on edgy by default. I couldn't find it in my xorg.conf, but maybe it's a default used by the binary. So I tried this in my xorg.conf:

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "false"
EndSection

As far as I can say there are no more crashes for me.

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EricIndieRocks (ecason2) wrote : Re: [Bug 68086] Re: Flash Causes Firefox 2.0 to crash in Edgy

You're my new hero. Flash works perfectly now. Thanks a bunch!
Eric

waldheinz wrote:
> As it seems this issue is already discussed as a firefox-bug here:
>
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/14911
>
> They say it's because the composite extension is enabled on edgy by
> default. I couldn't find it in my xorg.conf, but maybe it's a default
> used by the binary. So I tried this in my xorg.conf:
>
> Section "Extensions"
> Option "Composite" "false"
> EndSection
>
> As far as I can say there are no more crashes for me.
>
>

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Echo Nolan (echonolan) wrote : Seconded

Disabling composite in xorg.conf also solves this issue for me.

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Pedro Côrte-Real (pedrocr) wrote :

I can confirm this bug and that disabling composite fixes it.

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