[25588] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.29: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri Apr 9 17:37:48 2004
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:36:01 -0400
Message-Id: <200404092136.i39La152023310@anhedonia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
To: Erica H Peterson <astronut@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[25575] in Athena Bugs"
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
Thanks for the bug report.
There are indeed problems with the Realplayer plugin on both platforms.
On Sun, the plugin can crash Mozilla with a BadShmSeg X error (I assume
this is the crash you referred to). A workaround for this is not to use
the shared memory X transport on Sun; we would prefer not to do this
generally, since that transport improves performance, but a user can
disable it by setting the XSUNTRANSPORT environment variable, e.g.:
athena% setenv XSUNTRANSPORT noshmem
On Linux, the problem is that the plugin was compiled with an older
version of gcc, which is incompatible with our Mozilla build. The
Mozilla plugindoc site points at a gross (and unsupported) workaround
(see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213234#c3), but that's
not something we really want to do here.
(We currently have the Realplayer 7 plugin in the default plugin directory,
but I verified that the Realplayer 8 plugin does not help with the above
problems, on either platform).
We will look into the best way of resolving this, though that might
include removing the plugin from the default directory.
Bob
