Flash on Rawhide

Brian Vuyk brian at brianvuyk.com
Sat Apr 18 02:00:51 UTC 2009


I've been having some minor issues with the proprietary Flash on Rawhide 
(32-bit).

It seems that whenever I make a flash file fullscreen, Firefox crashes. 
When running it through GDB, I get the following printed out just prior 
to the backtrace starting:

*** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/firefox-3.1b3/firefox: free(): invalid 
pointer: 0xa4958b00 ***

Is this possibly related to the recent malloc changes in glibc?

I would like to get a sense of how many people are experiencing the same 
crash. From conversation with others in #fedora-qa, it seems to be 
pretty widespread. It can be easily tested by visiting any video site 
(youtube, megavideo etc.), opening a video, and clicking the 'enlarge' 
or 'fullscreen' button.

I should note that I used this same version of Flash (10.0.22.87) with 
no fulllscreen issues on Ubuntu prior to beginning to test Rawhide.

There is an existing bug in bugzilla about it, to which I've added my 
information. However, it doesn't seem to be drawing a lot of attention, 
and I think this is a fairly important bug to be quashed, since so many 
people use the proprietary flash.

Here is the bugzilla link: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477110

Brian




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