Bug#811106: browser-plugin-gnash: crashes with general protection error and fails to work

Peter van der Meer peter.vd.meer at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 19:04:24 UTC 2016


After updating today I seem to have exactly the same issue as bug-submitter
(playing a Youtube video in IceWeasel works for a short time, and then
gnash seems to crash exactly the same way as described by bug-submitter).

root at peter-laptop:/var/log# tail -n 6 kern.log
Jan 17 19:51:02 peter-laptop kernel: [ 4807.188273] traps:
plugin-containe[3290] general protection ip:7f4186c21166 sp:7ffeda8f3230
error:0 in libxul.so[7f4185beb000+39ec000]
Jan 17 19:51:18 peter-laptop kernel: [ 4823.470741] traps:
plugin-containe[3388] general protection ip:7f85a8daf166 sp:7ffef3164100
error:0 in libxul.so[7f85a7d79000+39ec000]
Jan 17 19:51:20 peter-laptop kernel: [ 4825.978344] traps:
plugin-containe[3401] general protection ip:7f2dc28a1166 sp:7fff27db6c80
error:0 in libxul.so[7f2dc186b000+39ec000]
Jan 17 19:51:33 peter-laptop kernel: [ 4838.280262] traps:
plugin-containe[3414] general protection ip:7f7978520166 sp:7ffc993cf0c0
error:0 in libxul.so[7f79774ea000+39ec000]
Jan 17 19:51:46 peter-laptop kernel: [ 4851.874890] traps:
plugin-containe[3506] general protection ip:7fd9dddd5166 sp:7ffee09b8f80
error:0 in libxul.so[7fd9dcd9f000+39ec000]
Jan 17 19:51:50 peter-laptop kernel: [ 4855.252502] traps:
plugin-containe[3520] general protection ip:7f71865fc166 sp:7ffdf7ac9e40
error:0 in libxul.so[7f71855c6000+39ec000]
root at peter-laptop:/var/log#

root at peter-laptop:/var/log# dpkg-query -l | grep gnash
ii  browser-plugin-gnash
0.8.11~git20160109-1                   amd64        GNU Shockwave Flash
(SWF) player - Plugin for Mozilla and derivatives
ii  gnash
0.8.11~git20160109-1                   amd64        GNU Shockwave Flash
(SWF) player
ii  gnash-common
0.8.11~git20160109-1                   amd64        GNU Shockwave Flash
(SWF) player - Common files/libraries
root at peter-laptop:/var/log# dpkg-query -l | grep iceweasel
ii  iceweasel
43.0.4-1                               amd64        Web browser based on
Firefox


On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:21:14 +0100 "Francesco Poli \(wintermute\)" <
invernomuto at paranoici.org> wrote:
> Package: browser-plugin-gnash
> Version: 0.8.11~git20160109-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Hello!
>
> I experienced a grave regression after upgrading browser-plugin-gnash:
>
>   [UPGRADE] browser-plugin-gnash:amd64 0.8.11~git20150419-3+b3 ->
0.8.11~git20160109-1
>   [UPGRADE] gnash:amd64 0.8.11~git20150419-3+b3 -> 0.8.11~git20160109-1
>   [UPGRADE] gnash-common:amd64 0.8.11~git20150419-3+b3 ->
0.8.11~git20160109-1
>
> and restarting iceweasel.
> Attempting to view any YouTube video results in a gnash crash with
> errors such as:
>
>   traps: plugin-containe[5604] general protection ip:7f79bfddc166
sp:7ffc805894f0 error:0 in libxul.so[7f79beda6000+39ec000]
>
> in /var/log/kern.log
>
> Downgrading the three packages to their previously installed versions
> solves the issue and everything works again as before.
>
> Please investigate and fix this bug and/or forward my bug report upstream.
>
> Please do *not* downgrade the severity of this bug report, so that
> users will be warned against performing the upgrade (especially if
> they use apt-listbugs).
>
> Thanks for your time!
> Bye.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages browser-plugin-gnash depends on:
> ii  gnash                     0.8.11~git20160109-1
> ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-4.1
> ii  libc6                     2.21-6
> ii  libgcc1                   1:5.3.1-5
> ii  libglib2.0-0              2.46.2-3
> ii  libstdc++6                5.3.1-5
>
> browser-plugin-gnash recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages browser-plugin-gnash suggests:
> pn  browser-plugin-lightspark  <none>
>
> -- Configuration Files:
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