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Ubuntu freezes when watching flash video

Asked by Aiden83

I was watching a flash video:
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/04/01/notion-inks-adam-other-tablets-delayed-due-to-nvidia-tegra-2-issues.html

and part way through my sound just starting looping/skipping. My keyboard num/caps lock LEDs all started flashing. The computer froze.

I pulled this from the messages log at close to the time of incident:
Jun 20 23:51:24 blackhawk-pc pulseaudio[2101]: ratelimit.c: 2 events suppressed

How can I proceed to debug when computer freezes, because I normally use apport to report bugs?

I repeated watching the video above, and the bug occurred again, but at a different time in the video.

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#1

Sounds like a conflict. Try these

sudo apt-get purge swfdec-mozilla
sudo apt-get purge mozilla-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get purge adobe-flashplugin
sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer
rm -f $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*so
rm -rf $HOME/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32/Macromed/Flash
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so

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Aiden83 (aidendeem) said : 		#2

Thanks for your suggestions. I do not, however, have a $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ directory.

Do you deliberately ignore flashplugin-installer in favour of flashplugin-nonfree, even though flashplugin-nonfree is now transitional?

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#3

Try it out and see what happens.

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