On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Patrick <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 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 > In this thread, http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=171369 It is suggested that this cures the flash-crashes-firefox problem. # mkdir /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped # ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libflashplayer.so I did it. No more crashes. Can somebody explain to me what it means? What is "plugins-wrapped" and why does linking the libflashplayer.so in there, instead of just in "plugins", make a difference? pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
