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FS#26415 - [flashplugin] 11.0.1.152-1 causes X freeze and video playback problems

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Leonidas Arvanitis (larvan) - Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 14:34 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 02 June 2012, 21:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 6
Private No

Details

Description:


Additional info:
* extra/flashplugin 11.0.1.152-1
* aur/linux-pf 3.0.5-1
* Nvidia binary driver 280.xx and 285.xx
* flash hardware acceleration enabled/disabled
* KWin4 composition enabled/disabled


Steps to reproduce:
* Install flash plugin 11.0.1.152
* Start a video in youtube.com
* Let it buffer and try to skip within the buffered part
* Video freezes while audio keeps playing
* Sometimes browser (chromium/firefox) freezes followed by X (keyboard/mouse/video but not audio) after seconds. I am able to ssh in or shutdown using acpid power button.

This is a regression of the .152 (stable) release as the RC1 (11.0.1.192) didn't have this problem.

For anyone interested, you can find the RC1 archives here (rare otherwise:):
http://www.mediafire.com/file/6ushtf4s6g550ba/flashplayer11_rc1_install_lin_32_090611.tar.gz
http://www.mediafire.com/file/7h09ic12j2voq1m/flashplayer11_rc1_install_lin_64_090611.tar.gz
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 02 June 2012, 21:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Binary blobs...
Comment by Andrew Gaydenko (student975) - Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 15:02 GMT
I have not noticed X freezing (yet?), but have met "Video freezes while audio keeps playing" case also. Linux package is official one (3.0.6-2), and all the system is up to date.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 15:41 GMT
flash is closed source and we can do anything here. report to adobe
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 15:57 GMT
This is more a bug in X or the nvidia driver. Flash should not be able to freeze the whole system. My expirience is that hw acceleration needs to be disabled in /etc/adobe/<forgot the exact filename>. Also try to use packages and kernel from our repo.
Comment by Roland Dobai (DRagon6621) - Saturday, 15 October 2011, 10:51 GMT
I have the same problem but turning off the hardware acceleration helped (Thanks Pierre!).
Comment by Cian McGovern (cian1500ww) - Monday, 17 October 2011, 13:25 GMT
I also have the same problem, I'm using the Nvidia 285 drivers. Disabling hardware acceleration stopped the freezing video for me and I haven't had any more re-occurrences of X freezing on me.
Comment by Ziad Nsarellah (Mereo) - Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 07:06 GMT
I'm also experiencing the bug "Video freezes while audio keeps playing". Therefore I've downgraded to Flash 10.3.183.10-1 because Hardware acceleration was important to me.
Comment by Anas SAHEL (pianozik) - Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 19:01 GMT
Hi, I'm also experiencing the same problem. When watching a video on youtube for example, the whole system freezes.
I also experienced that when I want to jump to a spécified time, I continue getting the sound but the video sticks on the last screen seen and if I open another video, the whole system freezes with 99% chances (unluck :p)
Comment by david cheung (scruffidog) - Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 05:38 GMT
more details:

it looks like the nvidia driver is getting hosed when this occurs. once you are able to remote in, the screen does not change even when you kill all X processed, which would normally dump the screen into tty1. even when you kill the login shell process, the screen is still frozen with a reboot being the only option to recovery.
Comment by Brendan Jackman (bjackman) - Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 21:30 GMT
I updated to version 295.20-1 today and the problem seems to be fixed.
Comment by mattia (nTia89) - Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 21:21 GMT
i get again the problem! but only the playback issue in every browser (firefox,chromium,opera) under openbox , with:

* nvidia-295.20-1-x86_64
* flashplugin-11.1.102.62-1-x86_64
* firefox-10.0.2-1-x86_64
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 02 June 2012, 12:56 GMT
Status?
Comment by mattia (nTia89) - Saturday, 02 June 2012, 15:08 GMT
personally i use 11.1.102.63-1 version of flashplugin because all other versions are buggy:

sometime system freeze fault nvidia using flash other time freeze fault only flash....
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 02 June 2012, 21:13 GMT
Nothing we can do here... two binary blobs.

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