Flash, Java, etc. does not work with out of process plugins and causes Firefox to become unresponsive

Binary package hint: firefox

Using a trunk build with the Flash plugin installed, visit any website with
Flash content.

Firefox will become unresponsive and have to be forcibly closed.

Some error messages include:

** (firefox-3.7:8607): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14
** (firefox-3.7:8607): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 12

Backtrace:

0x00a99422 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

I have the same behaviour:

(firefox-3.7:22710): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

** (firefox-3.7:22782): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14

** (firefox-3.7:22782): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 12

Same for me for the past two to three days.

(firefox-3.7:12884): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

** (firefox-3.7:14303): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14

** (firefox-3.7:14303): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 12

Same

** (firefox-3.7:16085): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 16

** (firefox-3.7:16085): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100130 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Minefield/3.7a1pre ID:20100130044621

same after the previous update

** (firefox-3.7:12956): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14

** (firefox-3.7:12956): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 12
^C

same here...
tried with flash 9.0 r260
and with flash 10

*** e = [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]" nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/utilityOverlay.js :: getShellService :: line 313" data: no]

** (firefox-3.7:28632): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 16

** (firefox-3.7:28632): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 13

Marking this Triaged as we have an upstream bug.

apport information

Yeah, this bug pretty much applies to practically every plugin out there.

Same here: 3.7a2pre, Xubuntu 9.10 amd64

(firefox-3.7:6655): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

** (firefox-3.7:6681): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14

** (firefox-3.7:6681): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 12

The quick workaround would be disabling out of process plugins via about:config , setting the key dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false
Works with latest flash and gnash

Yup, above workaround works :P

wokr, but what do dom.ipc.plugins?

When the dom.ipc.plugins is enabled i get an freeze with plugins, but a different error:
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.3a4pre/mozilla-runtime: error while loading shared libraries: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

looks like a linking/library path problem with mozilla-runtime

If I do the quick hack of making symlinks of the required libraries in the /usr/lib then it works.

I forgot to add that I use 64 bit lucid and builds from mozilla daily PPA.

Maybe it's a packaging issue as noted in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542053

Disabling plugins does work, very lame.

This started happening after the latest update from ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa --
firefox 3.6.4~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic

System: Ubuntu 9.10 amd64

Exactly the same problem as aslam karachiwala too ;)

I also have the same problem since I updated firefox yesterday. But it also happens on websites with extensive use of JS (such as GMail). Firefox freezes and the previous warnings (fd usage error 14 & 12) are raised, even if the key dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is already on false.

I can also confirm this problem with firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre

Firefox works if I disable flash plugin, but I want it ;).

Can confirm this. After updating firefox, the browser wouldn't start except in safe mode. Otherwise it would die with
** (firefox-bin:11278): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14

** (firefox-bin:11278): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 12

Enabling the flash plugin while the browser is running gives the error

** (firefox-bin:11549): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 36

** (firefox-bin:11549): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 32

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre

Same here after today's patch run!

This makes FF unusable, would be good to get a fix out really soon!

Anything we can help ?

Cheers,
henry

A workaround for me is to uninstall firefox from synaptic, download the tar.gz version of firefox from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/es/firefox/ and use that version instead

(firefox-bin:4625): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

** (firefox-bin:4658): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14

** (firefox-bin:4658): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 12

same thing happens to me

today I had the same problem. i checked in about:config dom.ipc.plugins.enabled, and it was already false. then i tried setting
___dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so to false____, and now seems to work. seems that a lot of people today had this problem with the namoroka nightly builds , maybe it's still easy to revert some bad commit

Hi Ubuntu users:

I got the same problem.
I have to return to firefox 3.5 to solve the problem!!!

Same problem in firefox 3.6.4 pre

Setting dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so to false fixed this problem for me!

Same problem here with
with firefox 3.6.4~hg20100410r3403
form the daily ppa.

Same problem here
Ubuntu Karmic x86

Namoroka 3.6.4pre (3.6.4~hg20100410r34032)

I've already set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so to false, but I still can reproduce the problem in a web page when I click on a link that I know will bring a popup window. I don't know if that window has to execute something "special" like a JS code, but i am pretty sure that it desn't have to execute any flash or Java code

Same here.

From help -> about:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6

I forgot to confirm that setting dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so to false resolved the problem for me, but (obviously) only for pages that have flash contents.

I've developed a dummy HTML page with two links. The first one brings a plain HTML page (no JavaScript, no Java, no Flash) on a popup window and the second one brings a JavaScript alert window.

When I click the first link, firefox freezes.
When I click the second link, the alert window appears without any problem.

I've made this test to make sure the problem is only when you need to bring a popup window, and not when you need to execute JavaScript code (because to bring a popup window you need to execute JavaScript code)

I can also confirm setting dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so to false corrects it for now, and that the problem only appeared after switching from 3.5 to the nightly build

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre

lol, google chrome, internet explorer 8 and firefox crash winth flash player in ubuntu and windows xp sp2 xDDDDD loooooool

video of demo:
http://webcomparte.com/archivos_publicos/otros/flash_bug.ogv

crash firefox in ubuntu and ie8 in windows xp

and google chrome in crash:
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/7992/chromecrash.png

sorry,

In 4 rounds: crash google chrome, Opera, Firefox and internet explorer 8 in last versions in ubuntu and windows xp:

http://webcomparte.com/archivos_publicos/otros/owned_explorer.ogv

google chrome work correctly in ubuntu :-/

Here is the test page I've developed (described in post #44)

http://www.phoenixac.cl/ff_crash/popup_test.html

Stefan Pszczolkowski, the popup work ok in firefox 3.6.4 pre

Thank you zkizzik, the problem I had is some sort of uncompatibility with the Chromifox Companion add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10339

Uninstalling this add-on solved the problem for me.

I have the same problem with Ubuntu 9.10 and Namoroka 3.6.4 pre (the browser freezes on Gmail and Youtube)

How can I set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so to false ? I go to About:config but I do not find that line ....

Do I have to register to MozillaZine? (I know that this is a stupid question).

glavkos: If you don't have that line, try to set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false.

I was able to return Namaroka 3.6.4 pre to functional (except for flash)
by opening the browser clicking Tools > Add ons and then disable
Shockwave Flash from the Plugins tab.

glavkos wrote:
> I have the same problem with Ubuntu 9.10 and Namoroka 3.6.4 pre (the
> browser freezes on Gmail and Youtube)
>
> How can I set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so to false ? I go
> to About:config but I do not find that line ....
>
> Do I have to register to MozillaZine? (I know that this is a stupid
> question).
>
>

@Bernhard I am afraid I have to create an account on MozillaZine first ...I have sent them a mail...I can not find dom.ipc.plugins either ...I see the following :

dom. allow_scripts_to_close_windows
dom. disable_image_src_set
dom. disable_open_click_delay
dom. disable_open_during_load
dom. disable_window_flip
dom. disable_window_open_feature

dom. event. contextmenu. enabled
dom. popup_allowed_events

and some others but not the one you mention...

Thanks for your help anyway :)

glavkos: this has absolutely nothing to do with a MozillaZine account. :)

From your list I would suspect that you are running a Firefox 3.6 without the recent dom.ipc code. So if you have problems with flash, this might be for some other reason. Which repos are you using other than the normal Ubuntu repos?

I combined the about:config thing with this: http://lovinglinux.megabyet.net/?page_id=220##1---Manual-installation-of-fresh-final-releases-from-Mozilla-3

Now redtube works like a charm!

Yep , this is a problem . Isn't ?

My repositories are shown on the attachment below.

glavkos, since you do have the "mozilla daily build" repo in your sources, I am surprised that you don't have the dom.ipc options in your about:config. What would probably solve the problem for you would be to disable the "mozilla daily build" for a while (until this bug is fixed). Note that in this case, you would have to manually downgrade your firefox to the version from the Ubuntu repos. To do this, open Synaptic, search firefox and click "Package--> Force version" and select the older version from the Ubuntu repos.

@Anders Tyft
I tried to run the first command you propose and I get that error.... (13:Permission denied).

glavkos@glavkos-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla
[sudo] password for glavkos:
Ανάγνωση Λιστών Πακέτων... Ολοκληρώθηκε
Κατασκευή Δένδρου Εξαρτήσεων
Ανάγνωση περιγραφής της τρέχουσας κατάσταση... Ολοκληρώθηκε
Το πακέτο swfdec-mozilla δεν είναι εγκατεστημένο και δεν θα αφαιρεθεί
Τα ακόλουθα πακέτα εγκαταστάθηκαν αυτόματα και δεν χρειάζονται πλέον:
  winbind
Χρησιμοποιήστε 'apt-get autoremove' για να τα διαγράψετε.
0 αναβαθμίστηκαν, 0 νέο εγκατεστημένα, 0 θα αφαιρεθούν και 2 δεν αναβαθμίζονται.
glavkos@glavkos-laptop:~$ apt-get autoremove
E: Αδύνατο το άνοιγμα του αρχείου κλειδώματος /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)

Can anybody tell me what it means ?
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

Hi!
The only solution with positive results I found is:
1) Uninstall Firefox 3.6.4 Namoroka (synaptic package manager)
2) Delete from the repositories (system-synaptic package manager) the
"mozilla" line,
3) Reload the new repositories
4) Install Firefox 3.5 (synaptic package manager)

And there is no problem any more!

Johnko99

2010/4/14 glavkos <email address hidden>

> I have the same problem with Ubuntu 9.10 and Namoroka 3.6.4 pre (the
> browser freezes on Gmail and Youtube)
>
> How can I set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.libflashplayer.so to false ? I go
> to About:config but I do not find that line ....
>
> Do I have to register to MozillaZine? (I know that this is a stupid
> question).
>
> --
> Flash, Java, etc. does not work with out of process plugins and causes
> Firefox to become unresponsive
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513887
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

@John Baldur

Your solution worked for me after all ....I reinstall Firefox 3.5.9 (not the Namoroka version) and looks to work fine...
Great tip John ...Thank you

For the time being, I've worked around this bug by creating my own wrapper around mozilla-runtime.

I dpkg-diverted mozilla-runtime out of the way:
sudo dpkg-divert --local --add --rename /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.3a4pre/mozilla-runtime

I then created in a text editor (nano) and marked executable (chmod +x ) a new mozilla-runtime with the following contents:
#!/bin/sh
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.3a4pre/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.3a4pre/mozilla-runtime.distrib $@

It seems mozilla-runtime is being called with neither PATH nor LD_LIBRARY_PATH containing the xulrunner directory.

Note that since I have overridden mozilla-runtime, apport now gives me "This report does not apply to a packaged program":
https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/83105

Once we get an official fix, you can undo my changes by deleting the custom "mozilla-runtime" wrapper, and then un-diverting the original:
sudo dpkg-divert --local --remove --rename /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.3a4pre/mozilla-runtime

I can confirm that Dana Goyette's workaround works. However it only works with Minefield (1.9.3) and not Namoroka (1.9.2). This is because for some reason Namoroka doesn't even come with a mozilla-runtime :$

It seems this bug was fixed.
I've updated my Namoroka to 3.6.5pre. It seems OK now.

Same here. There is no flash plugin problem anymore.

Confirmed that this is no longer a problem. GMail and Youtube work fine now. Looks as though the bug was fixed upstream... although I can't seem to find it. I didn't look very hard though. In any case, please re-open if the bug begins exhibiting symptoms again,

I stil get that error with last package ( firefox-3.7_3.7~a5~hg20100422r41159+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd2_amd64.deb )

Opening youtube i get:

** (firefox-3.7:2708): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14

** (firefox-3.7:2708): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 12

The bug was fixed in our packaging. 3.7 probably doesn't have that fix yet though

Yup, according to upstream, the bug is due to a critical package left out in the Ubuntu version. The fix for 3.6 is released, 3.7 is committed.

This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 3.6.4+build7+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

---------------
firefox (3.6.4+build7+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release v3.6.4 (FIREFOX_3_6_4_BUILD7)

  [ Micah Gersten <email address hidden> ]
  * Rebase patch after upstream landing of Lorentz branch
    - update debian/patches/bz460917_att350845_reload_new_plugins.patch
  * Drop patch after upstream landing of (bmo: 544481) aka
    Build fails on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx using 'dash' shell
    - drop debian/patches/fix-build-glitch.patch
    - update debian/patches/series

  [ Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> ]
  * AppArmor:
    - allow ixr access to /usr/lib/xulrunner-*/plugin-container for xul builds
    - finetune Adobe Reader access (LP: #570337)
    - silence noisy denial on /boot/vmlinuz* and /boot/initrd.img* caused by
      readlinking symlinks in / (LP: #571761)
    - allow 'm' for java's 'classes.jsa' file (LP: #574459)
    - transition to firefox_java on Sun's jre/bin/java_vm too (LP: #570128)
    - allow Uxr for gnome-codec-install (LP: #577097)

  [ Chris Coulson <email address hidden> ]
  * Rebase patches for 3.6.4 release
    - update debian/patches/firefox-kde.patch
    - update debian/patches/mozilla-kde.patch
    - update debian/patches/add_syspref_dir.patch
  * Build with --enable-ipc on amd64, i386 and armel. These are the only
    architectures where OOPP is supported. Build with --disable-ipc on all
    other architectures
    - update debian/rules
  * Fix LP: #513887 - Install the plugin-container binary for OOPP support
    when building with --enable-ipc
    - update debian/rules
  * Fix build failure with fontconfig 2.5
    - update debian/patches/lp512615_cairo_lcd_filter.patch
  * Fix LP: #469752 - KDE/Gnome startup notification not disappearing
    when app window is up - build with --enable-startup-notification
    - update debian/rules
 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:31:44 +0100

This bug seems to have resurfaced in Firefox 4.0, version

4.0~b4~hg20100808r49147+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~lucid .

However, this time around, in addition to getting errors 14 and 12 in that order, now I sometimes get:

** (firefox-4.0-bin:16473): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 17

** (firefox-4.0-bin:16473): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14

instead.

Please use the ubuntu-mozilla-ppa-bugs product for out-of-archive versions. In any case, this is already fixed in bzr and will be in the next spin of the daily builds