You're being a bit pessimistic here. To every problem, there is a solution. For example you could implement a intelligent anti-spam system or do what every American does: sue there asses off! :-p
2009/4/9 teledyn <ga...@teledyn.com> > I rather suspect that 'spam' is exactly what they'd had in mind, and > what we have witnessed is a whole new species of spam that may spell > the end of nice open-posting bug-reporting systems for free software :( > > -- > Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com> ============================= > Alice laughed: "There's no use trying, one can't believe impossible > things." > "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. > > -- > firefox crashes on flash contents when using libflashsupport > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192888 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “firefox” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released > Status in “ia32-libs” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released > Status in “libflashsupport” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released > Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in “pulseaudio” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in firefox in Ubuntu Hardy: Invalid > Status in flashplugin-nonfree in Ubuntu Hardy: Fix Released > Status in ia32-libs in Ubuntu Hardy: Invalid > Status in libflashsupport in Ubuntu Hardy: Fix Released > Status in linux in Ubuntu Hardy: Invalid > Status in pulseaudio in Ubuntu Hardy: Invalid > Status in firefox in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid > Status in flashplugin-nonfree in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Released > Status in ia32-libs in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Released > Status in libflashsupport in Ubuntu Intrepid: Won't Fix > Status in linux in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid > Status in pulseaudio in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid > Status in “libflashsupport” source package in Baltix: Invalid > > Bug description: > Testcase: > > use pulseaudio and libflashsupport together with flashplugin-nonfree in > firefox. > > 1. navigate to youtube video > 2. wait till sound plays > 3. hit back button > 4. hit forward > 5. goto 2 if not yet crashed. > > the crash sometimes happens after 2 iterations ... and i can't remember > that i ever made 10 :) ... > > ================= > > Tested on two machines both with gutsy and hardy (on 32 bit x86): flash > content very often crashes firefox (both of firefox-3.0 in hardy and older > versions). I've just tried with other browsers, epiphany-browser crashes as > well, and even konqueror from KDE (though it's not crashing at a whole, > since it may run flash and other plugins as another user or something > similar - I think at least - but it reports the crash of flash). I don't > know exactly the package I should report this against, but as far as I can > remember this issue presents since I started to play with pulseaudio: there > is a wrapper lib to allow flash to play sound via PA right, so it CAN BE > caused by this single issue instead of problem of the browser or the flash > plugin itself? > > ================= > Workaround for early Hardy adopters: > > Manually uninstall the libflashsupport via 'apt-get remove libflashsupport' > or synaptic. This is necessary because libflashsupport would not > automatically be removed by update-manager when it was changed from a > dependent package to a recommended package during the Hardy development > cycle. > > ================= > Update 13/8/08: Hopefully this summary can help clarify the situation and > help get this bug fixed! > > Since the release of Flash 9, ALSA is the only audio output method > supported by Flash (as opposed to earlier releases which had OSS and ESD > support built-in). However, to aid with backwards-compatibility, Adobe have > provided a simple API to support other audio (and secure transaction) > schemes, which can be exposed by using the "libflashsupport" code. You can > view the original implementation on Adobe's wiki page, which extends OSS and > ESD output to Flash 9: > http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:Additional_Interface_Support_for_Linux > > The version of libflashsupport used in Ubuntu (and most recent > distributions that use PulseAudio) is different to the above, as it has been > extended to support PulseAudio. You can see the relevant upstream wiki, with > a description and link to the git repository: > http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FlashPlayer9Solution > > The problem that users are experiencing in this bug is that Flash becomes > unstable when the libflashsupport API is used; both the original OSS/ESD > implementation provided by Adobe and the version adapted for PulseAudio > exhibit this instability. The source of the problem is within Flash itself > and it is not due to a bug in the modified libflashsupport code. See this > PulseAudio bug report: http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/267 > > So what can we do? We can drop libflashsupport entirely and use a better > method to enable PulseAudio support in Flash (and all ALSA applications, in > fact). PulseAudio provides ALSA plugins that enable most ALSA applications > to have PulseAudio support. Unfortunately, Ubuntu is one of the few > distributions that did not configure PulseAudio completely and thus ALSA > applications completely bypass PulseAudio, causing mixing conflicts. This > issue is reported on bug #198453 and you can read the FAQ at the following > link for a summary of the problem here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=866965 > > If we remove libflashsupport and fix bug #198453, there's "good news" and > "bad news" with regards to Flash: > > The bad news: Flash 9 still won't work (due to Flash 9's erroneous reliance > on snd_async_add_pcm_handler() which causes problems with the PulseAudio > ALSA plugin). See the PulseAudio developer's comment on Flash 9 here: > https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-May/001796.html > > The good news: the snd_async_add_pcm_handler() issue is fixed in Flash 10 > (since beta 1). Essentially, Flash 10 is 100% PulseAudio compatible when > using the proper configuration of bug #198453. > > In summary, the solution to this bug: > 1. Upgrade to Flash 10 (at release candidate status as of 13/8) > 2. Drop libflashsupport completely (it causes instability in Flash 9 and > 10) > 3. Fix bug #198453 > > This bug is a trivial fix for Intrepid (and should have been fixed a long > time ago, to give PulseAudio time for testing). It is also possible to fix > in Hardy, as long as the prerequisites of bug #198453 can be fulfilled > whilst keeping the SRU policy for an LTS release in mind. Either way, > *something needs to be done*. > ** Bug watch added: PulseAudio sound server #267 http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/267 -- firefox crashes on flash contents when using libflashsupport https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192888 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
