Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:42:44 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ? Message-ID: <20090726014244.D4C041CC0B@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:55:25 %2B0200." <20090725115525.GA85767@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:55:25 +0200 > From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > 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 ? > > > 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. > > from what i remember, flash9 with the default linux_base (fc4) > did not work for me (though i don't remember the details). > Are you positive that it is a working configuration on RELENG_7 ? > > Especially, fc4 does not support skype (except skype1.2, which however > does not authenticate anymore), so using fc4 is not an option for > me and i suspect desktop users in general. > > > > I'm also working on an update for 8.X > > 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. Once everything is at the correct version, the user needs to use nspluginwrapper to set up the correct user mappings. I don't want the Acrobat plugin, so I pick the plugins I want to wrap rather than use the automatic option. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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