Sometimes when opening a link of http://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/ (a german news site) www-client/mozilla-firefox crashes. The crashes only happened when accessing http://www.mdr.de/ . Somehow I found out, that the crash only happened when www-plugins/swfdec-mozilla was installed and the site had flash content. Note the crash also happened when www-plugins/swfdec-mozilla was not playing, because I disabled the autoplay, so www-plugins/swfdec-mozilla was only loaded. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install www-plugins/swfdec-mozilla-0.8.2 as the only flash player. 2. Visit http://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/ with www-client/mozilla-firefox and search for a page with flash content (e.g. http://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/7123893.html Note: I forgot to save link, where I personally had a crash.). Actual Results: Altough the content was loaded in a "background" tab, www-client/mozilla-firefox crashed. Expected Results: www-client/mozilla-firefox should display the content. The first crash happened during the end of my diploma thesis so I uninstalled www-plugins/swfdec-mozilla first. When I had time again, I investigated the crash but couldn't find a hint to it. I took a look at the development repository and found the following commit with a one line fix after the 0.8.2 release: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/swfdec/swfdec-mozilla/commit/?h=0.8&id=11bfe822fc16a06d8eacacd36a069ccf9dbc1201 (by the way the only commit in the 0.8 series after the 0.8.2 release). After applying this patch, I couldn't reproduce the crash anymore. I must also mention that I couldn't always reproduce the crash with the unaltered www-plugins/swfdec-mozilla-0.8.2 , e.g. after firefox crashed and I restarted it, it worked. But sometimes I kept crashing. While working on this bug, I did also port the current ebuild to EAPI 2.
Created attachment 221467 [details, diff] Patch of new ebuild against current version in the tree. I added my current version of my www-plugins/swfdec-mozilla-0.8.2.ebuild. It is ported to EAPI 2 and has the patch of http://cgit.freedesktop.org/swfdec/swfdec-mozilla/commit/?h=0.8&id=11bfe822fc16a06d8eacacd36a069ccf9dbc1201 applied.
Created attachment 221469 [details, diff] Read correct argument when parsing alignment. This is the patch extracted from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/swfdec/swfdec-mozilla/commit/?h=0.8&id=11bfe822fc16a06d8eacacd36a069ccf9dbc1201 It fixes a bug in swfdec-mozilla-0.8.2 but I can't prove it is the origin of the current bug.
Some additional informatitions: The first crash happened in Nov. or Dec. 2009 and the last time I did reproduce it was th 15. Feb 2010. Since then I used my modified ebuild with the patch and hadn't an issue since then. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3400+-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0_beta1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/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 /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en de fr ja" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/opt/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude='/lost+found'" 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/tmpfs" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dga dirac divx4linux doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal iconv imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack java java6 javascript jbig jikes joystick jpeg jpeg2k latex libcaca libnotify libwww lirc lzo mad matroska midi mime mmx mmxext mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nas nautilus ncurses nls nocardbus nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php png policykit ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection scanner schroedinger sdl session sndfile speex spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs sysvipc tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd videos vim-syntax vorbis wma x264 xine xml xmms xmpp xorg xosd xpm xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de fr ja" LIRC_DEVICES="hauppauge hauppauge_dvb" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
inclusion of the patch ok
Fixed in -r1
