Bug 2030

Summary:	gecko-mediaplayer hangs google chrome browser (chromium)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	jcl darkc <jcldc13>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Triaged
Version:	1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0-2.mga1.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description jcl darkc 2011-07-04 22:11:06 CEST

Description of problem:
under kde4 (not tested from gnome), gecko-mediaplayer plugin (g-m-p) hangs google chrome browser quite often. Some web pages become unresponsive then the whole chrome application.

With firefox it works fine.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0-2.mga1

How reproducible:

1) install chromium browser or dl it from google
urpmi urpmi chromium-browser

2) install gecko-mediaplayer plugin
urpmi gecko-mediaplayer 

3) go to http://mail.google.com
then your chrome browser may (or not) hang.

It's a know bug:
see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=77274

Looks like there is a workaround by recompiling g-m-p --with-gconf=no
see here :
http://groups.google.com/group/gecko-mediaplayer/browse_thread/thread/3e889fd1e5cc24c8?pli=1

JC

Comment 1 Ahmad Samir 2011-07-04 23:39:09 CEST

Please test gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0-2.1.mga1 from core/updates_testing, should land there soon.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 jcl darkc 2011-07-05 10:47:44 CEST

Sounds like the new gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0-2.1.mga1 from core/updates_testing has fixed the bug !
No more hangs so far :)
thanks

Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2011-07-05 11:18:20 CEST

Thanks for the feedback.

This is an official update request, gecko-mediaplayer in mga1 core/release had a bug where it hanged chromium-browser. Upstream report:
http://code.google.com/p/gecko-mediaplayer/issues/detail?id=64
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24507#c7

Most major distros (Ubuntu, RPMFusion in Fedora) have built gecko-mediaplayer without gconf support to fix this issue.

Test case:
- Install gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0-2.mga1 from core/release; and chromium-browser
- Try to use chromium under any DE other than GNOME (and make sure no gvfs* processes are running), sometimes the whole app just hangs
- Install gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0-2.1.mga1 from core/updates_testing then try again, the issue shouldn't happen any more

Proposed advisory text:
===========================================
Due to an upstream bug in Chromium-browser, it would hang on occasion if gecko-mediaplayer is installed. This update provides gecko-mediaplayer with GConf support disabled, to workaround this issue.

Upstream bug reports:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24507
http://code.google.com/p/gecko-mediaplayer/issues/detail?id=64
==========================================

Keywords: NEEDINFO => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => qa-bugs

Comment 4 Nicolas Vigier 2011-07-05 18:47:03 CEST

pushed to updates.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => boklm
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Nicolas Vigier 2014-05-08 18:04:14 CEST

CC: boklm => (none)