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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2013 00:18:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Ronald F.Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:        rfg@tristatelogic.com
Subject:   ports/179001: Opera flash plugin crashes
Message-ID:  <20130527071815.A3F713B3A5@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Resent-Message-ID: <201305270720.r4R7K1Dd070778@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         179001
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Opera flash plugin crashes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 27 07:20:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ronald F. Guilmette
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
entr0py
>Environment:

FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE GENERIC amd64

>Description:

I just now installed the latest flash plugin for Opera, exactly following
the instructions provided here:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html

(Note that during this process, _something_ felt obliged to also update
Opera itself to the latest 12.15 release.  I cannot see any reasons why
that update should have been manditor when I was just installing the
flash player, but we will leave that for a separate PR.)

Anyway, the flash player install OK, and immediately afterwards I simply
attempted to use Adobe's own online flash version checker located here:

  http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html

I simply visited that URL (while using Opera) and a few moments later a
box was displayed on that page saying:

    Plug-in has crashed.

Meanwhile, over in my /var/log/messages file, at about the same time,
the following line was appended to the log:

May 26 23:57:36 mymachine kernel: linux: pid 9658 (opera:libflashp): syscall pipe2 not implemented

Bottom line?  Flash for Opera is clearly BROKE.

>How-To-Repeat:

See above.

>Fix:

I dunno.  I guess that somebody has to dig in and implement an emulation
of Linux's pipe2() syscall.  Based on the man page I'm looking at, it
shouldn't be in the least bit difficult to do exactly that.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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