When I try to view a page running 2.6.8(-r4 or -r7, haven't run any others) with flash content, all I get is a blank white box. I can move the cursor over the box, and it seems to see link locations (the cursor changes), but that's all I get. If I boot to 2.6.7-r14, everything works fine. I'm running an amd64 system, so this is with the firfox-bin browser. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install 2.6.8-r4 or r7 2.go to a page with flash 3.witness the vast white emptiness Actual Results: I saw a blank space where the flash content shoudl have been. Expected Results: Played the latest strongbad email.
Looking around today, I discovered Bug 63907, which may be related to this, although as far as I know, flash doesn't use openGL.
Please give an example link with flash on it that isn't working. Also, 2.6.8 is your version of what? Kernel? What version of firefox and netscape-flash are you running?
Whoops. Sorry about the boneheaded lack of information in the inital report. 2.6.8-r4 and later kernels from gentoo-dev-sources are the ones that cause breakage. I'm running firefox-bin: 1.0_pre-r1 netscape-flash: 7.0.25 An example flash page that doesn't work is http://www.homestarrunner.com Also, here's yet another bug which seems to be related to this one, and others that have shown up in 32-bit applications on amd64 since the 2.6.8-r4 kernel: Bug 67462
This issue seems to be fixed in gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r1 which is now marked as stable so I think this bug can be closed.
I'm running gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.9-r1 and when I see a flash animation, I only see the left half of it -- the right half is blank. I'm not sure if this is a related issue or not. Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -ftracer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -ftracer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X Xaw3dxml acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cjk crypt cscope cups curl dga encode esd ethereal evo f77 fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib innodb java jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww live lzo mad mbox memlimit mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl offensiveoggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png python qt quicktime readlinertc ruby samba sasl scanner sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads truetype usb videos wmf x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib" http://www.jibjab.com/play.asp?contentid=32
I agree, I don't if this is related, but I can confirm the behavior reported by Andy Dalton. The jibjab.com site displays only on the left half of the screen. Other sites like unfortunateeventsmovie.com not only display only the left half, but also crash the browser. When that happened, I tried to do a screen capture using the gnome screen utility and the desktop froze completely. I am using kernel 2.6.5 and gnome 2.8.1. I have unmerged and re-emerged netscape-flash to no avail. I checked for old copies of the flash library hanging around, and found none. My main browser is epiphany 1.4.6, but I also tried it in mozilla 1.7 and got the exact same result.
I just updated from mozilla 1.7.3 to 1.7.5, but there's no change in behavior.
i have no idea what could be the cause of your strange behaviour, but went it away with a never version?
No, it is still a problem. This forum post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-312299-highlight-flash+mozilla.html describes the same issue and says that it is a problem with how mozilla based browsers handle flash screens with width=100%. Also that non-mozilla browsers like opera handle it correctly. I have not tried that but I have tried firefox and indeed it does exactly the same thing.
Follow up: appears to be a known incompatibility with MS proprietary code. See this bug report -- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250830
I have the same problems with flash plugin. In firefox flash area is white and in opera is black. On my system problem began after moving from xorg 6.8 to 6.8.2 When I start opera from console first time after upgrage it said "can't open libXm.so.2". When I create symlink from libXm.so.2 to libXm.so.3 it displays: /opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins/operamotifwrapper-2: Symbol `_XmStrings' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking Maybe it is reason?
not arch-specific, reassigning
I had a similar problem (flash graphics not working, only white instead, but sound and "links" OK) and I solved it disabling the Adblock extension, even though Adblock was not configured to block the flash content.
deer park 1.5 emerged from source last week, Linux 2.6.14, tried flash plugin from gentoo ebuilds and downloaded from web to user profile, desactivated all extensiuons, de-installed adblock, tried with new FF-user-profile, created new user on computer, Xorg 6.8.2 ... not sure what you need to know. => White space instead of Flash animations. It never worked for me under Gentoo 2005.1 installed end november. lets put that ... dont think it will help: $ emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-Gentoo-moon_02 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-Gentoo-moon_02 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks keeptemp keepwork noclean sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_GB" LC_ALL="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/tmp" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa amuled apache2 apic apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bl bmp bonjour bootsplash bzip2 cdda cdparanoia cdr cmov cpudetection crypt cups curl cx8 dbus de dga directfb doc dts dv dvb dvd dvdread dynamic eds emboss encode esd ethereal examples exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran fpu freetype fxsr gd gdbm ggi gif glut gnome gnutls gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl httpd i8x0 icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 irc jabber jack java javascript jpeg kde lcms libcaca libg++ libwww lirc listentcp live lj logrotate lzo mad mca mce mikmod mmx mmxext mng mono motif mozcalendar mp3 mpeg mplayer msn msr mtrr mtyhtv ncurses network nls no-htdocs nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pae pam pat pcre pdflib perl pge png pse pse36 python qt quicktime rar readline real rss rtc samba screen sdl sensord sep silc skey skins sndfile speex spell sse ssl stream subtitles svg svga swat tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts tsc type1-fonts udev unicode urandom usb v4l v4l2 vcd vim vlm vme vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xanim xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
I did my weekly esync 15th night, emerge world 16th, and today I have flash 'visual' working ... I will try to sort out what changed since last week. in very short: works for me. (used not to) (but no clue why yet)
sorry, my fault: I did not do enough proof testing. The website I use have switched from Flash to animated pictures ... Flash does not work. I thought so, I was wrong.
I have done esync + emerge world, and now, it REALLY works for me ... tested several websites ...
PLEASE, can some one confirm works and mark bug invalid/solved/wontfix/cantfix/works-for-me ?
(In reply to comment #5) > I'm running gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.9-r1 and when I see a flash animation, I > only see the left half of it -- the right half is blank. I'm not sure if this > is a related issue or not. > http://www.jibjab.com/play.asp?contentid=32 See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278684, I tried the above link and links referred to in the upstream bug and it works just fine. (In reply to comment #18) > PLEASE, can some one confirm works and mark bug > invalid/solved/wontfix/cantfix/works-for-me ? http://www.homestarrunner.com/intro.html http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/ http://www.svt.ford.com both work perfectly fine w/ FF 1.5.0.1 (both -bin and compiled) and netscape-flash-7.0.61 Also working just fine on a bunch of other sites, I tried http://flashfun.doupe.cz/ which is all flash and no problems at all. Closing, cannot be reproduced.
The error <<has different size in shared object, consider re-linking>> can be fixed by remergint the package owning the file. See bug 338347 . The issue is not in the app, but in portage 2.2, or in revdep-rebuild.
