Public bug reported:
A couple hours ago, Firefox crashed on me for seemingly no reason. A
flashplugin-installer error dialog popped up, which I dismissed without
reading. I'd seen a similar dialog that said "flashplugin-installer
failure to download extra data files" a few times before and had been
ignoring it because I had been unable to fix it.
When I restarted Firefox, I discovered it would crash on startup every
time. After trying a few different ways to get it running, I discovered
the cause was a Bus Error, and that neither starting with a fresh
profile nor starting in safe mode would help.
Looking through /var/log/apt/history.log, I noticed an unattended-upgrade which
corresponded to about the time that Firefox first crashed. The important bit
seemed to be:
flashplugin-installer:amd64 (27.0.0.159ubuntu0.16.04.1,
27.0.0.170ubuntu0.16.04.1)
I don't really use flash much, so rather than figure out how to
downgrade, I just tried `sudo apt purge flashplugin-installer`, and
Firefox started fine after that. For me, the problem is solved, but I
wanted to report the bug in case it still affects others.
** Affects: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1724683
Title:
Firefox crashes on startup after updating to flashplugin-
installer:amd64 27.0.0.170ubuntu0.16.04.1
Status in flashplugin-nonfree package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
A couple hours ago, Firefox crashed on me for seemingly no reason. A
flashplugin-installer error dialog popped up, which I dismissed
without reading. I'd seen a similar dialog that said "flashplugin-
installer failure to download extra data files" a few times before and
had been ignoring it because I had been unable to fix it.
When I restarted Firefox, I discovered it would crash on startup every
time. After trying a few different ways to get it running, I
discovered the cause was a Bus Error, and that neither starting with a
fresh profile nor starting in safe mode would help.
Looking through /var/log/apt/history.log, I noticed an unattended-upgrade
which corresponded to about the time that Firefox first crashed. The important
bit seemed to be:
flashplugin-installer:amd64 (27.0.0.159ubuntu0.16.04.1,
27.0.0.170ubuntu0.16.04.1)
I don't really use flash much, so rather than figure out how to
downgrade, I just tried `sudo apt purge flashplugin-installer`, and
Firefox started fine after that. For me, the problem is solved, but I
wanted to report the bug in case it still affects others.
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