status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:38:05AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:35:00AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > Does anyone know what is the status of flash9 or flash10 in RELENG_7 ?
> > Following the thread of a couple of months ago, i tried to:
> > - remove all linux-* ports
> > - set the following in /etc/make.conf
> > 	OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8
> > 	OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8
> > - set the following in /etc/sysctl.conf
> > 	compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16
> > - set the following in /etc/fstab
> > 	linproc /usr/compat/linux/proc  linprocfs       rw 0 0
> > - reinstall linux_base-f8-8_11
> > - reinstall linux-flashplugin-10.0r22 (which in turn brings in the
> >   relevant linux-f8-* ports)
> > 
> > - also install nspluginwrapper and create a firefox plugin
> > - upgrade firefox to firefox-3.5,1 (native), just in case
> > - run firefox with "limit stacksize 4megabytes" (or variants)
> >   as recommended to avoid npviewer growing/not dying
> > 
> > This was done on 3 different machines (one laptop with a centrino,
> > 2 desktops with AMD X2 dual core running in i386 mode) with mixed
> > [in]success. On one machine thing started working well, but on the
> > other two they did not (the various packages were of course slightly
> > disaligned) and while trying to replicate the configuration i also
> > broke the good one without figuring out why.
> > Symptoms are that on certain sites or actions (e.g. switch to full
> > screen on youtube videos) i get firefox freezing like this
> > 
> > 22381 luigi  13  96    0 82580K 57484K ucond   1   0:00  0.20% firefox-bin
> > 22413 luigi   1  97    0 72920K 33448K futex   1   0:00  0.20% npviewer.bin
> > 22414 luigi   1  97    0 72920K 33448K futex   1   0:00  0.20% npviewer.bin
> > 
> > and recovering control (but no video) after 10+seconds
> > 
> > I also get a lot of the following weak_unref warnings with various addresses
> > 
> > (firefox-bin:22381): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_weak_unref: couldn't find weak ref 0x297ba9f0(0x2a10d110)
> > 
> > (but not sure how related is this, because it happens even without a
> > flash plugin).
> > 
> > I have also tried flash9 instead of flash10, o fc10 instead of fc8,
> > all with similar results.
> > 
> > Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ?
> >
> 
> The Handbook gives a reliable, i.e. reproductible one, recipe:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
> 6.2.3 Firefox and Macromedia? Flash Plugin
> 
> for running Flash 9 under 7.X and with default linux_base.

from what i remember, flash9 with the default linux_base (fc4)
did not work for me (though i don't remember the details).
Are you positive that it is a working configuration on RELENG_7 ?

Especially, fc4 does not support skype (except skype1.2, which however
does not authenticate anymore), so using fc4 is not an option for
me and i suspect desktop users in general.


> I'm also working on an update for 8.X

i see that for 8.x you suggest using fc10, which is also something i
tried on RELENG_7 but had similar symptoms. Is there any known reason
why HEAD and RELENG_7 should be different in terms of linux_base support ?

cheers
luigi