flash causes system crash

[Derek Karpinski]

Same exact problem here too. Started after new 64bit flash update via flash-aid, and adding medibuntu codecs.

Help please.

[Derek Karpinski]

For whatever reason, today flash-aid doesn't show up, and if I go to 'about:addons' in firefox, it says flash-aid is incompatible with FF6.............

Regardless, I've solved it on my system by rerunning flash-aid, and disabling HW acceleration.

I've been watching youtube vids for hours now, no crashes.

[lovinglinux]

For whatever reason, today flash-aid doesn't show up, and if I go to 'about:addons' in firefox, it says flash-aid is incompatible with FF6.............

It is a known issue with Flash-Aid 2.1.1 and Firefox 6. Get version 2.2.0 from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...-aid/versions/

[LinuxGF]

I have the situation where just Flash itself crashes every 5 minutes to an hour. Can't keep it on for long. It's worse if I have more than one Flash item going, like flash chat and radio streaming via a Flash interface. When the Flash adverts changeover it goes then.

Running 10.10x64 12GB RAM NVidia Accelerated graphics driver (the recommended one)

I have the same problem. I'll never know what to do.

[thewolfman]

Hi chaps,

do this in a terminal, it worked for me:

For 64 bit:

sudo apt-get purge --yes adobe-flashplugin
sudo apt-get purge --yes flashplugin-installer
sudo apt-get purge --yes flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get purge --yes mozilla-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get purge --yes swfdec-mozilla
sudo apt-get purge --yes browser-plugin-lightspark
sudo apt-get purge --yes mozilla-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get purge --yes konqueror-plugin-gnash
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

Regards thewolfman

[Zeikcied]

I've had the same issue with the Flash Player 11 beta.

When watching streams (like JustinTV or Ustream) or something on BlipTV, my system will freeze. Well, sort of. If I keep moving the mouse, after a few minutes the system will unfreeze for maybe 30 seconds, but even if I close Firefox the system will remain in this semi-frozen state until I force it to shut down.

When using FlashAid, how exactly do I disable hardware acceleration (assuming that's the problem)? Do I just uncheck the "Enable Linux HWVideo Decode" box on the Advanced menu? And is it still an issue with RC1 that just came out a couple days ago?

(For the record I have an NVIDIA GeForce 240 GT and the official driver version 270.41.06 from the Ubuntu repos.)