Agnus Dei (jackal) wrote in linux,
2011-03-01 15:34:00

How to fix Flash crashing under Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10

The newest version of flash is bugged and will constantly crash under Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10.

Here's the bug if you want to read it yourself.

And from the thread, here's how to fix it:

~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer=10.1.85.3ubuntu1

~$ dpkg -l |egrep -i "chromium|flashp"
ii  chromium-browser                     9.0.597.94~r73967-0ubuntu0.10.10.1                Chromium browser
ii  chromium-browser-inspector           9.0.597.94~r73967-0ubuntu0.10.10.1                page inspector for the chromium-browser
ii  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg               0.6+svn20101129r67548+69665-0ubuntu0.10.10.1      Free ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser
ii  flashplugin-installer                10.1.85.3ubuntu1                                  Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
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ekrava

March 1 2011, 21:54:59 UTC 2 years ago

let try to enable proposed security and maverick-updates repos

$dpkg --list | grep flash
ii flashplugin-installer 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer
flashplugin-installer:
Installed: 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1
Candidate: 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1
Version table:
*** 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1 0
500 http://mirror.mirohost.net/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages
500 http://mirror.mirohost.net/ubuntu/ maverick-security/multiverse amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
10.1.85.3ubuntu1 0
500 http://mirror.mirohost.net/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse amd64 Packages
N: Ignoring file 'old' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has no filename extension

jackal

March 2 2011, 21:14:01 UTC 2 years ago

Were you trying to communicate a message in English? Because you failed to do so.

And yes - 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1 is the bugged version.

amblinwiseass

March 3 2011, 18:55:19 UTC 2 years ago

Speaking of communication -- ~130-character lines in <pre> tags, in a LiveJournal post? Dick move.

odubtaig

March 1 2011, 23:33:46 UTC 2 years ago

Judging by one of the comments there, this may be nVidia specific (so if you're not affected by this bug that might be why).

Either way, Chromium's been getting right on my nerves recently including a fully cross-platofrm bug in a recent build involving multiple nested divs meaning it would claim the server wasn't responding and bail.

jackal

April 19 2011, 15:40:31 UTC 2 years ago

It appears to be nVidia specific as UNCHECKING hardware acceleration in the Adobe Settings disables the bug.

odubtaig

April 19 2011, 16:21:21 UTC 2 years ago

Intel and ATI cards can also hardware accelerate video. If the bug only occurs on computers with nVidia cards then you start looking at the cards for the cause of the problem.

Having read through the bug reports it can be said that it's nVidia specific but only because it's a bug in the way 32 bit Flash Player calls an nVidia specific hardware acceleration mode requesting about 1GB of VRAM which us inevitably rejected and this rejection is handled improperly (or not at all) by Flash Player.

It has also been pointed out that this is not a problem in FireFox and so may also be a bug in the way Chromium instantiates Flash.

So much as I'm sure some people would want to claim this a 'tainted driver' issue this is a dual issue involving both proprietary and opens source code.

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