[Bug 104470] Re: firefox crashed -- libflashplayer.so

[Drew Woodard]

@N. Spohrer
That is encouraging to hear that the issue may have been resolved in the newer kernels.  The fact that it seems to only occur with the sound chips using snd-hda-intel drivers might point to the kernel, on the other hand flash is the only piece of software that triggers crashes on my system, and other people I have talked to with similar sound chipsets only experience instability when using flash.  It might be some bug in one area or the other that is only rarely triggered but happens to be triggered reliably by its counterpart in this bug report.
I guess it doesn't much matter at this point assuming it has been fixed in a dependable manner, the only downside I see is now the response to people with this bug will be "well it's fixed in the beta" meaning they will have to either use a pre-release version of Gutsy or live with crashes until October.  Which I admit is a lot better than nothing.

@Alexander Sack
I still experience this issue with the 2.6.20 kernel, I have not yet tried any 2.6.22/Gutsy kernels that N. Spohrer mentioned.
The workaround of having flash loaded in the background has been effective for my setup and other machines I have tried it on that are experiencing this issue.  Unfortunately it's not a practical workaround if you are trying to deploy Ubuntu in a lab or office environment setting.

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firefox crashed -- libflashplayer.so
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