Does anyone know what is the status of flash9 or flash10 in RELENG_7 ? Following the thread of a couple of months ago, i tried to: - remove all linux-* ports - set the following in /etc/make.conf OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8 - set the following in /etc/sysctl.conf compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 - set the following in /etc/fstab linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 - reinstall linux_base-f8-8_11 - reinstall linux-flashplugin-10.0r22 (which in turn brings in the relevant linux-f8-* ports) - also install nspluginwrapper and create a firefox plugin - upgrade firefox to firefox-3.5,1 (native), just in case - run firefox with "limit stacksize 4megabytes" (or variants) as recommended to avoid npviewer growing/not dying This was done on 3 different machines (one laptop with a centrino, 2 desktops with AMD X2 dual core running in i386 mode) with mixed [in]success. On one machine thing started working well, but on the other two they did not (the various packages were of course slightly disaligned) and while trying to replicate the configuration i also broke the good one without figuring out why. Symptoms are that on certain sites or actions (e.g. switch to full screen on youtube videos) i get firefox freezing like this 22381 luigi 13 96 0 82580K 57484K ucond 1 0:00 0.20% firefox-bin 22413 luigi 1 97 0 72920K 33448K futex 1 0:00 0.20% npviewer.bin 22414 luigi 1 97 0 72920K 33448K futex 1 0:00 0.20% npviewer.bin and recovering control (but no video) after 10+seconds I also get a lot of the following weak_unref warnings with various addresses (firefox-bin:22381): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_weak_unref: couldn't find weak ref 0x297ba9f0(0x2a10d110) (but not sure how related is this, because it happens even without a flash plugin). I have also tried flash9 instead of flash10, o fc10 instead of fc8, all with similar results. Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ? cheers luigi
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:35:00AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:> Does anyone know what is the status of flash9 or flash10 in RELENG_7 ? > Following the thread of a couple of months ago, i tried to: > - remove all linux-* ports > - set the following in /etc/make.conf > OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 > OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8 > - set the following in /etc/sysctl.conf > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 > - set the following in /etc/fstab > linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 > - reinstall linux_base-f8-8_11 > - reinstall linux-flashplugin-10.0r22 (which in turn brings in the > relevant linux-f8-* ports) > > - also install nspluginwrapper and create a firefox plugin > - upgrade firefox to firefox-3.5,1 (native), just in case > - run firefox with "limit stacksize 4megabytes" (or variants) > as recommended to avoid npviewer growing/not dying > > This was done on 3 different machines (one laptop with a centrino, > 2 desktops with AMD X2 dual core running in i386 mode) with mixed > [in]success. On one machine thing started working well, but on the > other two they did not (the various packages were of course slightly > disaligned) and while trying to replicate the configuration i also > broke the good one without figuring out why. > Symptoms are that on certain sites or actions (e.g. switch to full > screen on youtube videos) i get firefox freezing like this > > 22381 luigi 13 96 0 82580K 57484K ucond 1 0:00 0.20% firefox-bin > 22413 luigi 1 97 0 72920K 33448K futex 1 0:00 0.20% npviewer.bin > 22414 luigi 1 97 0 72920K 33448K futex 1 0:00 0.20% npviewer.bin > > and recovering control (but no video) after 10+seconds >hi, read: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-June/006431.html> I also get a lot of the following weak_unref warnings with various addresses > > (firefox-bin:22381): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_weak_unref: couldn't find weak ref 0x297ba9f0(0x2a10d110) > > (but not sure how related is this, because it happens even without a > flash plugin). > > I have also tried flash9 instead of flash10, o fc10 instead of fc8, > all with similar results. > > Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ? > > cheers > luigi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"-- Have fun! chd -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20090725/3a4bacef/attachment.pgp
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:35:00AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:> Does anyone know what is the status of flash9 or flash10 in RELENG_7 ? > Following the thread of a couple of months ago, i tried to: > - remove all linux-* ports > - set the following in /etc/make.conf > OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 > OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8 > - set the following in /etc/sysctl.conf > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 > - set the following in /etc/fstab > linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 > - reinstall linux_base-f8-8_11 > - reinstall linux-flashplugin-10.0r22 (which in turn brings in the > relevant linux-f8-* ports) > > - also install nspluginwrapper and create a firefox plugin > - upgrade firefox to firefox-3.5,1 (native), just in case > - run firefox with "limit stacksize 4megabytes" (or variants) > as recommended to avoid npviewer growing/not dying > > This was done on 3 different machines (one laptop with a centrino, > 2 desktops with AMD X2 dual core running in i386 mode) with mixed > [in]success. On one machine thing started working well, but on the > other two they did not (the various packages were of course slightly > disaligned) and while trying to replicate the configuration i also > broke the good one without figuring out why. > Symptoms are that on certain sites or actions (e.g. switch to full > screen on youtube videos) i get firefox freezing like this > > 22381 luigi 13 96 0 82580K 57484K ucond 1 0:00 0.20% firefox-bin > 22413 luigi 1 97 0 72920K 33448K futex 1 0:00 0.20% npviewer.bin > 22414 luigi 1 97 0 72920K 33448K futex 1 0:00 0.20% npviewer.bin > > and recovering control (but no video) after 10+seconds > > I also get a lot of the following weak_unref warnings with various addresses > > (firefox-bin:22381): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_weak_unref: couldn't find weak ref 0x297ba9f0(0x2a10d110) > > (but not sure how related is this, because it happens even without a > flash plugin). > > I have also tried flash9 instead of flash10, o fc10 instead of fc8, > all with similar results. > > Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ? >The Handbook gives a reliable, i.e. reproductible one, recipe: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html 6.2.3 Firefox and Macromedia? Flash Plugin for running Flash 9 under 7.X and with default linux_base. I'm also working on an update for 8.X -- Marc
In article <20090725013500.GC62402@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> you write:>Does anyone know what is the status of flash9 or flash10 in RELENG_7 ? >Following the thread of a couple of months ago, i tried to: >- remove all linux-* ports >- set the following in /etc/make.conf > OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 > OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8 >- set the following in /etc/sysctl.conf > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 >- set the following in /etc/fstab > linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 >- reinstall linux_base-f8-8_11 >- reinstall linux-flashplugin-10.0r22 (which in turn brings in the > relevant linux-f8-* ports) > >- also install nspluginwrapper and create a firefox plugin >- upgrade firefox to firefox-3.5,1 (native), just in case >- run firefox with "limit stacksize 4megabytes" (or variants) > as recommended to avoid npviewer growing/not dying > >This was done on 3 different machines (one laptop with a centrino, >2 desktops with AMD X2 dual core running in i386 mode) with mixed >[in]success. On one machine thing started working well, but on the >other two they did not (the various packages were of course slightly >disaligned) and while trying to replicate the configuration i also >broke the good one without figuring out why. >Symptoms are that on certain sites or actions (e.g. switch to full >screen on youtube videos) i get firefox freezing like this > >22381 luigi 13 96 0 82580K 57484K ucond 1 0:00 0.20% firefox-bin >22413 luigi 1 97 0 72920K 33448K futex 1 0:00 0.20% npviewer.bin >22414 luigi 1 97 0 72920K 33448K futex 1 0:00 0.20% npviewer.bin > >and recovering control (but no video) after 10+seconds > >I also get a lot of the following weak_unref warnings with various addresses > >(firefox-bin:22381): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_weak_unref: couldn't find weak ref 0x297ba9f0(0x2a10d110) > >(but not sure how related is this, because it happens even without a >flash plugin). > >I have also tried flash9 instead of flash10, o fc10 instead of fc8, >all with similar results. > >Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ?Hmm. All I can say is I'm not sure I can even remember flash hanging since I lowered the stack limit using this nspluginwrapper patch: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20090630184146.GA39346 (btw still no words from the nspluginwrappper port maintainer about this, or I missed them? Cc'd again...) _When_ flash hung, I usually got it back to running by doing `killall npviewer.bin' and optionally quitting ff and doing `rm /tmp/_org_wrapper_NSPlugins_libflashplayer.so*' and then restarting the browser. (If you don't do that, remaining npviewer.bin processes might interfere with later ff sessions making flash appear more broken than it really is...) HTH, Juergen
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 06:42:44PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > ... > > > i see that for 8.x you suggest using fc10, which is also something i > > > tried on RELENG_7 but had similar symptoms. Is there any known reason > > > why HEAD and RELENG_7 should be different in terms of linux_base support ? > > > > Here is what is working for me for both Flash9 and Skype: > > linux_base-f8-8_11 > > nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_2 > > skype-2.0.0.72,1 > > linux-flashplugin-9.0r159: > > > > Be sure that your various linux packages are updated to the -f8- > > versions, too. The upgrade for linux_base is the tricky one. > > Unfortunately I think there are many more details that one has > to consider, such as CPU type and number of cores/threads, > OS version, and presumably firefox version as well. > Can you tell me more on the above ? > > I had flash9 working once, but it don't remember all the packages > (and something was stale for sure); it got broken while installing > skype (a mail thread mentioned an issue with some shared lib version, > which was exactly the problem i had with skype. The fix was to > either create a symlink on a library or install linux_base-f10 to fix it). > > An example of the URLs that is giving me problems is the following > > http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/massa-colpito-da-un-detrito/35446?video > > (basically all videos from that site cause the same problem). I would be > grateful if you cold check it. >The video looks fine here, even if I'm getting a warning about the flash version. http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2741/screenshotmassacolpitod.png I've found that on 7, the better combination for me is linux-flashplugin9, linux_base-fc4 and compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2. On CURRENT, using linux_base-f10, I get much more stuck process, while on 7 it barely happens. Barbara
> On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 10:32 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:20:09AM +0200, barbara wrote: > > > > > > > > An example of the URLs that is giving me problems is the following > > > > > > > > http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/massa-colpito-da-un-detrito/35446?video > > > > > > > > (basically all videos from that site cause the same problem). I would be > > > > grateful if you cold check it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > The video looks fine here, even if I'm getting a warning about the flash version. > > > http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2741/screenshotmassacolpitod.png > > > > > > I've found that on 7, the better combination for me is > > > linux-flashplugin9, linux_base-fc4 and compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2. > > > > Same here: the video plays fine on 7.2-S with linux_base-fc4 and > > linux-flashplugin9 > > > > > On CURRENT, using linux_base-f10, I get much more stuck process, while > > > on 7 it barely happens. > > > > On 8-BETA2 with linux_base-f10 and linux-f10-flashplugin10 that video > > makes npviewer "coredumping". > > > This video played on my 8-BETA2 (r195818, SMP, i386) with linux_base-f10 > and linux-f10-flashplugin10 without dumping core. Was your BETA2 before > or after library version bump and, if latter, did you rebuild all your > ports? >I've cvsupped and rebuilt my system on Jul. 23 and rebuilt all my ports. linux-f10-flashplugin10 is dumping core or not working for me too. BTW, why nspluginwrapper doesn't find the plugin? Barbara
Luigi Rizzo wrote:> Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ? >Allegedly PC-BSD ship a working Flash install, I have not tried it. I have had similar problems and tried similar recipes. The Flash player(s) thus embedded are not very stable, and can crash or hang with multiple opens, or browser tab embedding the player(s) being closed.
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 06:15:22PM +0200, barbara wrote: > > > On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 10:32 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:20:09AM +0200, barbara wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > An example of the URLs that is giving me problems is the following > > > > > > > > > > > > http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/massa-colpito-da-un-detrito/35446?video > > > > > > > > > > > > (basically all videos from that site cause the same problem). I would be > > > > > > grateful if you cold check it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The video looks fine here, even if I'm getting a warning about the flash version. > > > > > http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2741/screenshotmassacolpitod.png > > > > > > > > > > I've found that on 7, the better combination for me is > > > > > linux-flashplugin9, linux_base-fc4 and compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2. > > > > > > > > Same here: the video plays fine on 7.2-S with linux_base-fc4 and > > > > linux-flashplugin9 > > > > > > > > > On CURRENT, using linux_base-f10, I get much more stuck process, while > > > > > on 7 it barely happens. > > > > > > > > On 8-BETA2 with linux_base-f10 and linux-f10-flashplugin10 that video > > > > makes npviewer "coredumping". > > > > > > > This video played on my 8-BETA2 (r195818, SMP, i386) with linux_base-f10 > > > and linux-f10-flashplugin10 without dumping core. Was your BETA2 before > > > or after library version bump and, if latter, did you rebuild all your > > > ports? > > > > > > > I've cvsupped and rebuilt my system on Jul. 23 and rebuilt all my ports. > > linux-f10-flashplugin10 is dumping core or not working for me too. > > BTW, why nspluginwrapper doesn't find the plugin? > > > > I assume it's cause nothing is installed under > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ so you need to do a > > ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so \ > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ > > just before the nspluginwrapper -v -a -i as I mentioned it in the > Handbook. >That did the trick, thank you! It's still lagging when I close the window, anyway it's working now. Barbara
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:38:05AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:35:00AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Does anyone know what is the status of flash9 or flash10 in RELENG_7 ?snip> > > > Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ? > > > > The Handbook gives a reliable, i.e. reproductible one, recipe: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html > 6.2.3 Firefox and Macromedia? Flash Plugin > > for running Flash 9 under 7.X and with default linux_base. > > I'm also working on an update for 8.X >Many thanks, Marc, for this information. I was not aware (shame on me) that the Handbook does treat this big problem as well. You cannot imagine (nobody can imagine) the number of hours I've spent since ages to get Firefox and Flash9 working on FreeBSD-stable. So, this morning, I've started the n-th trial. Bad luck. It doesn't work anymore for the following two reasons: The first reason is the linux-pango vulnerability encountered with nspluginwrapper. Okey, I knew that already (see http://www.freebsdnews.net/2008/11/04/flash-9-for-freebsd-71-howto/). Overriding the problem (reluctantly) with ``setenv DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES yes'' brought me to the second reason which is even worse. Portmaster is unable to fetch install_flash_player_9.tar.gz and I cannot find the file manually. Seems to have disappeared from earth. I don't know how long I'll be able to resist against buying a MacBook for my wife who does want to see videos ``like anybody else''. Of coarse, this does not mean that everybody has a macintosh:-) By the way, I've tried Ubuntu, I've tried PC_BSD. Not really satisfactory. There is no alternative to FreeBSD. Could anybody out there provide install_flash_player_9.tar.gz for me as a temporary measure ? Harald --