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Title: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: blackone on 2012/01/13, 11:35:18
Hi

As title, there is the occasional freeze.  This happens with flash-non-free within iceape.  Not as often as with lmde, but is still annoying all the same.

Anyway around this or is part of the debian rolling release unstable extravaganza, therefor to be expected.

cheers and greetz
Title: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: towo on 2012/01/13, 11:44:20
You think, that anyone can help you?
Your post does not have any relevant info about your System!
Title: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: arno911 on 2012/01/13, 12:08:54
the problem is well known and has nothing to do with iceape or testing/unstable. this happens occasionally even in m$ windows and it's called

"flash"

greetings
arno911
Title: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: blackone on 2012/01/13, 14:40:42
Quote from: "towo"
You think, that anyone can help you?
Your post does not have any relevant info about your System!


I'm sorry.  I had no idea I was being so rude.

@arno911

It maybe a well known problem, and yes, I have heard many complaints about this on the web.  Just seems to mainly plague the testing/unstable of debain - at least for myself.  Works ok with slackware and arch and windows.
Title: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: devil on 2012/01/13, 14:51:38
Quote

I'm sorry. I had no idea I was being so rude.

You were not being rude. your post just lacks any information that would be helpfull. like: graphics card, does it work wirh other browsers...
i do not use much flash, but when i have to, it works ok here.

greetz
devil
Title: RE: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: der_bud on 2012/01/13, 19:35:35
blackone, are you aware that flashplugin-nonfree does not automatically gets updated with dist-upgrade? You have to invoke it manually, and sometimes that repairs some glitches. As root, enter
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update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv to get an verbose output (without -v you won't get feedback if available and installed version are the same).
Title: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: DeepDayze on 2012/01/13, 22:45:54
Quote from: "arno911"
the problem is well known and has nothing to do with iceape or testing/unstable. this happens occasionally even in m$ windows and it's called

"flash"

greetings
arno911



Yup, Flash surely also causes freezes/crashes on Windows (even in IE/FF/Chrome)..not just on Linux in general. As Flash itself is closed source we can't fix it...the Flash alternatives (Gnash and Lightspark) are not quite up to par yet
Title: RE: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: GoinEasy9 on 2012/01/13, 23:55:42
Excuse my ignorance, but, is what der_bud said true?  Does flashplugin-nonfree from the contrib repo not get updated automatically with a dist-upgrade?  That's a new one on me.
Title: RE: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: devil on 2012/01/14, 00:11:52
Sure its true, and always was. The file that gets updated is flashplugin-nonfree, but that just pulls the real package.

greetz
devil
Title: RE: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: GoinEasy9 on 2012/01/14, 00:25:50
Hmmm, learned something new, Thanks
Title: Re: RE: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: blackone on 2012/01/14, 11:58:13
Quote from: "der_bud"
blackone, are you aware that flashplugin-nonfree does not automatically gets updated with dist-upgrade? You have to invoke it manually, and sometimes that repairs some glitches. As root, enter
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update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv to get an verbose output (without -v you won't get feedback if available and installed version are the same).


No - I had no idea about that at all.  I think its the first time I have heard about this.

But I feel I have to reiterate that I have only had problems with flashplugin-nonfree on testing/unstable branches of debian.

cheers
Title: Re: RE: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: devil on 2012/01/14, 12:39:21
well, we are on unstable. and here flash is fine. but what can i say, asyou do not answer questions?

greetz
devil
Title: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observation
Post by: piper on 2012/01/14, 20:19:39
as root
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ln -s /tmp ~/.macromedia && update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv
Title: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observati
Post by: blackone on 2012/01/21, 17:00:10
Quote from: "piper"
as root
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ln -s /tmp ~/.macromedia && update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv


Did that.  Still freezes but not as much - but its to expected I suppose  :D
Title: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: occasional freeze question/observati
Post by: ralul on 2012/01/21, 19:46:02
Look and try: /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
What I mean, you have 3 options:
-Keep it secure, keep sites freezing
-dont visit these sites
-make your macromedia options more unsecure