Paul Johnson wrote:
On my 2 Fedora 8 systems, I have this problem today for the first
time. In Firefox, while browsing youtube, my system will crash when
opening flv files. Generally, I can view one show, and then when I
click another one, the whole browser disappears. It does not lock up
at all, it just dies. It does not affect any other programs.
I have not gone to youtube for a few weeks, and so I can't say if this
problem is actually new, or if I just happened up on it.
Would you please browse to youtube and try to watch a few and see if
you get the same outcome?
I see the same crash consistently on my laptop running F8 i386 with
firefox-2.0.0.12-1.fc8.i386
flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386
libflashsupport-000-0.1.svn20070904.i386
Don't know if it is related but I saw similar random crashes with
mplayer. Googling around I read that those crashes were caused by a race
in pulseaudio in alsa. Once I added the patch to mplayer and rebuilt it,
it no longer crashes. Perhaps the crashing with flv files is also caused
by a pulseaudio bug in alsa.
Regards,
Patrick
