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brett.boren
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Running firefox 2.0.0.1 and I get the following crash _every_ time I visit cnn.com
| Quote: | The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 84 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (1) |
help?
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jsfan
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| Just a guess but as cnn.com has flash on the home page, maybe you should try remerging flash. I've had problems like this that were flas related. |
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didymos
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: |
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No problem here. Same version with latest flash plugin.
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brett.boren
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| ok, dropped the flash plugin and it works. So how do I get flash working again? |
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didymos
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:09 am Post subject: |
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What version of flash were you using?
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brett.boren
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:11 am Post subject: |
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didymos
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:19 am Post subject: |
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Ok, unmask the latest version by adding this to /etc/portage/package.keywords:
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net-www/netscape-flash ~amd64
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and this to /etc/portage/package.unmask
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net-www/netscape-flash
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I assume amd64 since you're using firefox-bin. Anyway, once that's done, re-emerge flash and try the cnn.com site again. A lot of sites are using flash9, so there's no way around it except to unmask the latest version. Even though it's still masked, I've yet to have any firefox crashes I can attribute to the flash9 plugin. I actually can't think of the last time I even had a firefox crash, of any sort.
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brett.boren
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actually it's a p4 and I only had to add the ~x86 keyword to get flash 9 to emerge and...
bingo! it works with no crashes. It's just really bizarre that it went from working to triggering an Xlib fault. But it works now. Thanks for the fix |
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didymos
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:32 am Post subject: |
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Well, looks flash has just moved into testing. Time to change package.unmask.
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