Bug 85830 – glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 causes Macromedia flash to freeze

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rob David 2005-03-18 15:48:56 UTC]

After upgrading to glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, I found that firefox froze on web pages that contained flash. On downgrading back to glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, flash based pages were working again.

I am using net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.25

emerge --info (after downgrading):
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 24 2005, 22:31:12)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.5, 1.9.4, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.ipv6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode esd ethereal fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 joystick jpeg libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mbox mikmod mime mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl php png posix postgres ppds python quicktime readline samba sdl sox spell ssl svga tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vcd videos wxwindows xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-03-18 16:03:34 UTC]

did you restart X and other friendly apps after upgrading glibc ?

[Comment 2 Rob David 2005-03-18 17:50:18 UTC]

Yes, the machine got rebooted between upgrading glibc and me noticing the problem (if I read my log files right :-)

[Comment 3 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2005-12-19 06:31:15 UTC]

Is this still a problem with the latest stable glibc?

[Comment 4 Rob David 2005-12-19 15:05:09 UTC]

Doesn't seem to be. I am currently running glibc-2.3.5-r2, with flash 7.0.61, without any problems.

[Comment 5 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2005-12-19 15:25:54 UTC]

reopening...

[Comment 6 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2005-12-19 15:26:07 UTC]

to mark fixed.