Re: [gentoo-user] FlashPlayer crashes in FireFox

[Daniel Troeder]

Am 09.09.2013 11:45, schrieb Dan Johansson:
> As of lately (I can not really remember since when) FlashPlayer has
> stopped working in FireFox.
>
> I'm running an "stable" AMD64 system with FireFox
> (www-client/firefox-17.0.8), FlasPlayer
> (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.297) and NS-Plugin-Wraper
> (www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3).
>
> If I emerge the 64bit FlasPlayer I get the following errormessage when
> trying to wiev a video on YouTube "The Adobe Flash plugin has crashed"
> and I get the following in the .xsession-errors:
>
> plugin-container: htab.c:83: vlGetDataHTAB: Assertion `handle' failed.
> WARNING: pipe error (51): Connection reset by peer: file
> /var/tmp/notmpfs/portage/www-client/firefox-17.0.8/work/mozilla-esr17/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc,
> line 421
>
>
> If I on the other hand emerge the 32bit version + nspluginwraper nothing
> happens in FF (the "video-pane" just stays black) and I get the
> following messages in .xsession-errors:
>
> npviewer.bin: htab.c:83: vlGetDataHTAB: Assertion `handle' failed.
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Broken pipe
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
> WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2705):invoke_NPP_Write:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
> WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2478):invoke_NPP_NewStream:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
> WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2550):invoke_NPP_DestroyStream:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
> WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2434):invoke_NPP_URLNotify:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
> WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2434):invoke_NPP_URLNotify:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
> WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2550):invoke_NPP_DestroyStream:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
> WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2434):invoke_NPP_URLNotify:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
> WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2478):invoke_NPP_NewStream:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
> WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2434):invoke_NPP_URLNotify:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
> Send additional request to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRbnLYHzsfI
>
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
> WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2219):invoke_NPP_SetWindow:
> assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x7f33d3c27de0 is no
> longer valid!
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x7f33d3c27de0 is no
> longer valid!
> *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x7f33d3c27de0 is no
> longer valid!
>
> (The last line just keeps repeating)
>
> Any suggestions what my problem could be and how to solve it?
>
> Regards,
>
Adobe doesn't support the plugin API that FF uses anymore. Flash video
is almost certain to crash for most users. Chrome uses (created?) the
"pepper" API that Adobe supports, ships a recent Flash version and
videos work there. I didn't test it, but there is
www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins for Chromium that should deliver the same.