Bug 147205 – net-www/mplayerplug-in-3.31-r1 segfaults firefox 1.5.0.6 and 2.0_beta2

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Uwe Klosa 2006-09-11 10:40:03 UTC]

The latest version of mplayerplug_in does not work on my system in firefox. Always when I wanted to watch a film on web page the mplayer frame showed the message "no picture" and after a few seconds I got a segfault in firefox.

Downgrading to 3.30 solved the problem.

Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-suspend2-r5 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.17-suspend2-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
Last Sync: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:50:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r3
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r2
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/java-migration-packages /usr/portage/local/layman/portage-xgl"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups curl dba dbus divx4linux dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode esd expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac fommaticdb foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal howl idn imagemagick imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics isdnlog java jce jikes jpeg junit kernel_linux lame lcms ldap libg libg++ linguas_en linguas_en_GB live logrotate lua mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss other_var1 other_var2 pam pcre pda pdflib perl png postgres ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime radeon readline real reflection samba sdl session speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex thunderbird tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales vcd video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa vidix vorbis vorbix wavelan webdav win32codecs xine xml xmms xorg xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2006-09-11 11:40:02 UTC]

It works fine here, can you make sure you've compiled mplayer with the appropriate use flags and mplayerplug-in with the plugin for the type of media you're trying to watch?

What's the site that keeps failing?  Does it work on other sites?

[Comment 2 Uwe Klosa 2006-09-12 00:54:44 UTC]

It does not work om all pages wich show a film of type wmv. I've been using mplayer and mplayerplug-in for almost 2 years now and I always have used the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" as you can see in my emerge --info. It is the first time I had this issue.

Here are my flags:

[ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8-r1  USE="X aac aalib alsa cdparanoia dts dv dvd dvdread encode esd gif gtk jpeg live lzo mad mmx opengl oss png real samba sdl speex sse sse2 truetype unicode vorbis win32codecs xmms xv xvid -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext (-altivec) -amr -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dvb -enca -fbcon -ggi -iconv -ipv6 -jack -joystick -libcaca -lirc -livecd -matrox -mmxext -musepack -nas -openal -rtc -svga -tga -theora -v4l -v4l2 -x264 -xanim -xinerama -xvmc" 0 kB 

[ebuild     U ] net-www/mplayerplug-in-3.31-r1 [3.30] USE="gtk quicktime%* real%* -divx% -gmedia% -wmp%" 0 kB 

Is there a flag I shouldn't use?

[Comment 3 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2006-09-12 05:36:16 UTC]

Try enabling the wmp plugin (use flag wmp), it enables windows media support.  Does that help?  There were a bunch of new use flags added to the latest version of mplayerplug-in to control some available media types.  If this doesn't work, is there any output the command line from firefox when it crashes?  Can you try setting mplayer to default to x11 (and not xv) output?

[Comment 4 Uwe Klosa 2006-09-12 06:17:26 UTC]

Adding the wmp flag fixed the problem. Thanks for the help

[Comment 5 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2006-09-12 06:28:23 UTC]

No worries.