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

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Chris Schanzle <schanzle at nist.gov> wrote:

> 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)
>
>
This new .src.rpm does not require gvfs-fuse for rhel5 anymore:

http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/gnome-mplayer-1.0.0-12.el5.src.rpm




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

Yes, but I only realized that two days ago, because I do not boot my rhel5
system very often (only when I need to test anything
specific).


>
> 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!
>
>
>
There are other problems with gnome-mplayer and smplayer in rhel5 because
mplayer seems to have issues with fonts in rhel5, but this is another story
...


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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