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Exiting fullscreen flash videos causes screen to go 100% gray

Asked by Anhar Miah

This has now occurred three times, and thus I suspect its a bug.

When exiting a flash video from full screen, the whole screen is simply gray. The only other thing displaying is the mouse cursor.

A hard reboot is then required.

A few details:

Ubuntu 12.10.
Aspire 5738.
Google Chrome browser.

I can not recall this every happening in 12.04.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of :

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark|chrom'

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Anhar Miah (anharhussainmiah) said : 		#2

lsb_release -a:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal

uname -a:

Linux kolko-Aspire-5738 3.5.0-22-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 8 21:41:11 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark|chrom:

ii flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.261ubuntu0.12.10.1 i386 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
ii google-chrome-stable 24.0.1312.56-r177594 i386 The web browser from Google
ii xserver-xorg-video-openchrome 1:0.3.1-0ubuntu1 i386 X.Org X server -- VIA display driver

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

If you run the command as given it reduces the likelihood of errors.

sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-installer

The browser has it's own flash, so you don't need the extra plugin

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kovinet (borut-kovacec) said : 		#4

I have no flashplugin-installer but I still get the same error in Google Chrome. But I guess it is a Chrome issue then?

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