From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 25 07:51:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F85F1065670 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:51:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67DE88FC1F for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:51:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n6P7c96l023799; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:38:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id n6P7c55V023798; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:38:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:38:05 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Luigi Rizzo Message-ID: <20090725073805.GA11455@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20090725013500.GC62402@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090725013500.GC62402@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:51:55 -0000 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 MacromediaŽ 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