Why does Firefox crash when showing Flash content ?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT)
- firefox and xulrunner
- Adobe Flash Plugin
Issue
- Firefox crashes when viewing Flash/swf content.
- ABRT reports
plugin-containerwas killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
[abrt] xulrunner-10.0.10-1.el6_3: Process /usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/plugin-container was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
[abrt] firefox-24.1.0-3.el7: Process /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
- After the crash, the following messages are seen in
/var/log/messages:
kernel: plugin-containe[12116]: segfault at 7f7d458bbcf8 ip 00000032e260b9a5 sp 00007f7d50cfc990 error 6 in libpthread-2.12.so[32e2600000+17000]
abrt[2901]: Saved core dump of pid 1450 (/usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2014-01-14-17:23:46-1450 (218054656 bytes)
Resolution
-
Note: The package
flash-plugincomes from Red Hat's Supplementary channel(s) and is outside the scope of support. Please check Red Hat's scope of coverage page for more details. -
If the crash is happening without the
flash-plugininstalled, please contact your Red Hat Support representative and provide the crash coredump and sosreport from the system.
Diagnostic Steps
- From the
abrtmessages seen in the/var/log/messagesfile, and the associatedabrtcrash dump directory commandline output in/var/spool/abrt/, verify that the command run containslibflashplayer.*
For example:
-
If the crash is happening in
xulrunner, verify that the command run looks similar to:/usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/plugin-container /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja 14340 plugin -
If crash is happening in
firefox, verify that the command run contains looks similar to:/usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so -greomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser 7173 plugin
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