mplayerplug-in and mozilla_firefox woes

[dick hoogendijk]

On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 01:27:44 +0100
Simon Barner <barner at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > After upgrading both mozilla and firefox to the latest builds (with
> > portupgrade -rR firefox) I noticed movies don't play anymore (they
> > used to with mplayerplug-in).
> > 
> > I reinstalled mozilla, firefox and also the mplayer (gtk, skin and
> > plugin) without any result. Firefox starts the mplayerplug-in and
> > then stops; mozilla just crashes with a core dump.
> > 
> > Does anybody know what could be the problem?
> > Should I expect an update for the browsers (is it their fault?) or
> > has something gone wrong in the relation between mplayerplug-in and
> > the browsers? Or what?
> 
> Please provide more context:
> 
>  - FreeBSD version
>  - Output of ls /var/db/pkg
>  - Start the browser in an xterm an see if there are any error
>    messages

OK, here it comes. NO errors starting mozilla (nor firefox). Starting a
movie trailer (that just ran fine some time ago) makes mozilla core
dump. Xterm states: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

=-fbsd version and packages, as asked-=
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FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Nov  6 17:47:29 CET 2005

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