[ATrpms-users] firefox crash viewing non-flash video on CentOS 5.5

[Chris Schanzle]

On 01/12/2011 03:40 PM, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Chris Schanzle <schanzle at nist.gov> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Firefox and seamonkey crash on CentOS 5.5 (we use x86_64, haven't
>     tried
>     i386) when they encounter non-flash video files, e.g.,
>     http://www.nist.gov/itl/math/hpcvg/upload/vaneRheom_20101203_02.wmv  or
>     other videos at, for example,
>     <http://www.nist.gov/itl/math/hpcvg/concretemm.cfm>.  I've also tested
>     some other .avi's with no success.
>
>     This started happening about 6-8 weeks ago.  mplayer from the command
>     line plays the videos fine.
>
>     Can't quite put my finger on if it's gecko-mediaplayer or gmplayer.
>
>     I've got a bunch of debuginfo's installed, probably not all the needed
>     ones, but note that
>     http://dl.atrpms.net/debug/el5-x86_64/atrpms/stable/mplayer-debuginfo-1.0-78_snap20101002.el5.x86_64.rpm
>     is only 10KB in size and 'rpm -ql' reports no files.
>
>     gmplayer (part of mplayer package) dies on startup.  Looks like a
>     smoking gun to me.  Dies from the command line on i386 and x86_64 with
>     signal 11.
>
>
> Please, check if gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer
>
> have the same version. You cannot mix 1.0 and 0.9...

Bingo!  That's a good bit of info.

$ rpm -q gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer
gnome-mplayer-0.9.9.2-9.el5.x86_64
gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0-42.el5.x86_64

And gnome-mplayer is not updating/keeping in sync because I paper-over 
dependency issues with yum --skip broken:

gnome-mplayer-1.0.0-11.el5.x86_64 from atrpms has depsolving problems
   --> Missing Dependency: gvfs-fuse is needed by package 
gnome-mplayer-1.0.0-11.el5.x86_64 (atrpms)
Error: Missing Dependency: gvfs-fuse is needed by package 
gnome-mplayer-1.0.0-11.el5.x86_64 (atrpms)

Shouldn't gecko-mediaplayer-1.0*  depend on gnome-mplayer >= 1.0 ?

Checking history, you suggested to use --nodeps on 12/08/2010 to Keith 
Roberts.  Ick.  :-)

It would be nice to have this dependency removed/fixed.  I have 150+ 
systems that I update via yum and I don't want an installed base with 
broken dependencies in the RPM db.  And if reverting to 0.9 is the "best 
solution" due to the slider issue, please consider pulling 
gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0-42.el5.

Rolling back to gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8 stopped the browser crashing.  
As much fun as it is to downgrade, it would be nice if I didn't have to 
exclude gecko-mediaplayer from updating from here on out...which means 
missing the next update which might fix more stuff!

Thanks!