Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox?
>>>>> This one for example:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html
>>>>
>>>> Oh, noes!
>>>>
>>>> I am sorry to tell you that your computer is a redneck republican, and
>>>> this is why it's crashing.
>>>>
>>>> The only cure is to format the hard-drive.  :(
>>>
>>> While that is humorous, it doesn't make sense.  That's an Obama link.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I'm getting this in the terminal:
>>>
>>> $ firefox
>>> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
>>> /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so
>>> [/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so: undefined
>>> symbol: _ZN13nsTArray_base9sEmptyHdrE]
>>> Killed
>>>
>>> and I'm re-emerging totem, xulrunner, and firefox to see if that fixes it.
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Humm, Firefox isn't crashing for me, but I'm also not seeing a video
>> at this link. What am I supposed to play?
>>
>> - Mark
>
> Sorry, I blew it with that link.  Any cnn.com video will work.
>
> - Grant
>
>
OK, the videos play fine for me but I'm not getting any sound. I see
suspicious stuff in my terminal about sound though:

mark@lightning ~ $ firefox
which: no soundwrapper in
(/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin)
which: no soundwrapper in
(/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin)
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad":
libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** WARNING: unhandled variable 17 in NPN_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** WARNING: unhandled variable 17 in NPN_GetValue()

(npviewer.bin:7938): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion
`style->attach_count > 0' failed

That's probably fixable if I took the time to check USE flags, etc.

- Mark