It seems that with the latest gnome-mplayer/gecko-mediaplayer update to 1.0.3 the old bug #309231 (see comments 11-15) has resurfaced. With gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.3-r1 installed chromium freezes / times out arbitrary on some pages (actually, on *most* pages). Downgrading gecko-mediaplayer to 1.0.0 (compiled with USE="-gnome", of course) allows chromium to work normally.
Created attachment 272697 [details] emerge --info
blockers on chromium added, doesn't block bug 367091 anymore
Glad you found the cause, yes I've had exactly the same issue! The Chromium version I'm using is: 13.0.761.0 (0), and it still isn't resolved. I've done a couple of experiments on this plugin by enabling and disabling compile flags, and this time I observed the reverse behavior from version 1.0.0. This time, when I compile it with the "gconf" interface enabled, it works a whole lot better. Still I get some freeze ups, but much much less. Since the ebuild had disabled gconf hard this time, I've rewritten the ebuild (see attachment).
Created attachment 273233 [details] ebuild with "gnome" and "curl" flags When I use attached ebuild with the "gnome" flag enabled, chromium is a whole lot more stable.
Created attachment 273235 [details] emerge --info
The GConf backend is no longer required GSettings (glib/gio) is used instead. In other words, there's no way the attached ebuild will ever get into Portage. You will have to resolve this in Chromium end so it works without GConf, or contact upstream(s) about it. The only browser I'm testing is Firefox when doing gecko-mediaplayer bumps and that's not changing anytime soon, sorry.
I don't have this problem with Chromium 13.0.764.0 (Developer Build 85237) and gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.3-r1. I tried with http://www.bfmtv.com/rub/live/14/home/live/ (See upstream bug http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24507#c68 ) Below emerge --info about gecko-mediaplayer and chromium but I could give additional info if requested. # emerge --info gecko-mediaplayer chromium Portage 2.2.0_alpha33 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:00:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 3.1.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p10 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r2, 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1, 3.2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.38 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r2 Repositories: gentoo sunrise java-overlay vmware lim enlightenment gentooboontoo Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-10.1 dlj-1.1 googleearth PUEL skype-eula" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages installsources news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/" LANG="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en fr" MAKEOPTS="-j7" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/java-overlay /var/lib/layman/vmware /var/lib/layman/lim /var/lib/layman/enlightenment /var/lib/layman/gentooboontoo" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gdu gif gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg lcms libnotify mad mmx mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 readline samba sdl session smp spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l2 vorbis vpx wav x264 xcb xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en fr" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.3-r1 was built with the following: USE="(multilib) -curl" www-client/chromium-9999-r1 was built with the following: USE="cups gnome gnome-keyring (multilib) xinerama -kerberos -test"
Created attachment 274205 [details] emerge --info chromium:0 gecko-mediaplayer gnome-mplayer I am able to reproduce this with chromium-13.0.767.1.
This used to happen to me with older versions of Chromium, but not recently. I'm now running version 12.0.742.21. I noticed the blocker was added to the ebuild of gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.3r1, so I will try downgrading to 1.0.0, which doesn't have the blocker. It's strange that Chromium would hang/freeze in the presence of an unreliable plugin. Wasn't that one of the main features of Chromium, the ability to run plugins in a separate process, so that a bad plugin did not bring down the browser as a whole?
Just wanted to make a comment here about gecko-mediaplayer. I'm the author of the plugin and what is happening with Chrome is that it emulates the g_mainloop, but that emulation is not very good that is why building gecko-mediaplayer with gconf has serious issues. The authors of Chrome know about it and I think it is something they are trying to fix. I do have Chrome 12.0.724 on my development machine and gecko-mediaplayer with the gsettings backend (default when using gtk 2.26 or higher) does not appear to have any issues. So at this point my recommendation is to build gecko-mediaplayer without gconf, which means you need to build gnome-mplayer without gconf if you are using gtk < 2.26
(In reply to comment #10) > Just wanted to make a comment here about gecko-mediaplayer. I'm the author of > the plugin and what is happening with Chrome is that it emulates the > g_mainloop, but that emulation is not very good that is why building > gecko-mediaplayer with gconf has serious issues. Thanks so much for commenting here! Hopefully that'll help fixing the issue. > The authors of Chrome know > about it and I think it is something they are trying to fix. I'm not sure how actively they're trying. Some upstream bugs you may want to comment on: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=77274 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32954 > I do have Chrome 12.0.724 on my development machine and gecko-mediaplayer with > the gsettings backend (default when using gtk 2.26 or higher) does not appear > to have any issues. Could you post the result of "emerge -1pv www-client/chromium gecko-mediaplayer gnome-mplayer" on your system? > So at this point my recommendation is to build gecko-mediaplayer without gconf, > which means you need to build gnome-mplayer without gconf if you are using gtk > < 2.26 How about removing the potentially dangerous ./configure options completely? I don't fully understand this issue, but it seems that many people may blame gecko-mediaplayer for this issue, which is not necessarily correct.
(In reply to comment #11) > Could you post the result of "emerge -1pv www-client/chromium gecko-mediaplayer > gnome-mplayer" on your system? > I'm a Fedora user so I don't have the information you are requesting, but I do look for gecko-mediaplayer/gnome-mplayer bugs outside of the projects bug trackers. I find many people do not bother to report bugs upstream so I do go looking for them. This topic has been discussed on the gecko-mediaplayer mailing list and in the issue tracker http://code.google.com/p/gecko-mediaplayer/issues/detail?id=64 http://code.google.com/p/gecko-mediaplayer/issues/detail?id=97 > > So at this point my recommendation is to build gecko-mediaplayer without gconf, > > which means you need to build gnome-mplayer without gconf if you are using gtk > > < 2.26 > > How about removing the potentially dangerous ./configure options completely? I > don't fully understand this issue, but it seems that many people may blame > gecko-mediaplayer for this issue, which is not necessarily correct. The problem with removing these options is that they are not dangerous to firefox at all. Gconf is a valid backend for storing configuration data, and the plugin is doing nothing illegal. And since when the code is built I have no idea if the code is being used in Firefox (the intended target) or some other browser. As I have said before the problem is not gecko-mediaplayer as it works correctly under Firefox. You can read the huge bug report here (73 comments at last check) http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24507 It appears the problem is becoming more hit and miss with perhaps KDE users seeing the majority of the issues. My recommendation is you are seeing problems, use the --without-gconf option when configuring gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer. If you have GTK 2.26 or higher, ensure you have dconf installed as gecko-mediaplayers settings may not be saved otherwise.
When googling for this issue, I found several statements saying that chromium devs themselves have blacklisted this plugin for these reasons. This doesn't seem to case though, as chromium still hangs after I installed gecko-mediaplayer. I don't know if they removed the blacklist meanwhile, or it just doesn't work on Gentoo for some reason, but I would welcome if such blacklist worked and there wouldn't have to be a system-wide blocker as it is now.
How is gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.5_beta1 ?
(In reply to comment #14) > How is gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.5_beta1 ? I tried it with chromium-16.0.912.36. Looks like it works well.
(In reply to comment #14) > How is gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.5_beta1 ? No problem with Chromium 17.0.946.0 Developer Build 110877
Closing as per Comment #15 and Comment #16: - Use at least chromium 16.* or 17.* - Use at least gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.5_beta1 Please file a new bug if you still experience problems with said versions.
