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On 2012-04-02T13:09:56+00:00 Galtgendo wrote:

Given that in some of the cases adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 is plain not
working (not the smurfs, nor even logged crashes, it simply doesn't
work), please bump 10.3 to the updated version.

Given vulnerabilities, it's sort of security bump, too.

I started to describe the problem on
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-918560.html, but there are no real
hints about what's going wrong and in th end it's most likely something
only Adobe can fix.

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On 2012-04-06T13:30:21+00:00 Ackle wrote:

For security, vulnerable ebuilds <11.2.202.228 should be cleaned up as
part of bug 410005. Whether or not the maintainer/herd wants to add
10.3.183.18 does not really have anything to do with us, so removing
security from cc:

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On 2012-04-06T18:14:21+00:00 Galtgendo wrote:

It not quite an enhancement, if 11.2.202.228 just doesn't work.
Also, while the forum thread has seen very little input from other parties, it seems that the "not working" part affects only x86 (though it's still hard to say whether the problem lies in CPU or GPU).

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On 2012-04-12T11:13:10+00:00 Galtgendo wrote:

It seems that it was CPU - all the similar reports seems to come from
various types of AthlonXP. The problem reached even the upstream bug
tracker.

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On 2012-04-24T15:00:21+00:00 Lack-x wrote:

This wouldn't be the first time Adobe has compiled their binary with a
non-AMD-compatible compiler optimization enabled.  (See bug #268336)
Looks like in this case the issue is that 11.2 is now being compiled
using SSE2 instructions, making the binary completely useless for anyone
not running a CPU with SSE2.

In the mean time, I have bumped 10.3 to the security-fixed 10.3.183.18
(*and* removed the RPM dependency!).

I'm going to also consider adding a pkg_pretend check and failing the
11.2 install for non-SSE2 CPUs, recommending users package-mask their
way back to 10.3.

Leaving this bug open to track the upstream CPU issue and future
pkg_pretend changes.

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nonfree/+bug/968759/comments/13

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On 2012-04-24T15:32:35+00:00 Lack-x wrote:

Okay, updated the adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 to error out at pkg_pretend
time if any local CPU doesn't support the SSE2 instructions, with a
suggestions that users mask the 11.2 version to fall back to 10.3
instead.

Leaving this bug open to track the upstream bug(s).

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nonfree/+bug/968759/comments/14

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On 2012-05-09T22:06:47+00:00 Mattst88-h wrote:

Jim, there was a whole thread on the gentoo-dev mailing list about this
sse2check (that apparently you did not see?)

Wouldn't it be better if we just did this?

IUSE="... sse2"
REQUIRED_USE="sse2"

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On 2012-06-10T15:04:42+00:00 Galtgendo wrote:

The release of adobe-flash 11.2.202.236 has turned things worse (unless it's firefox 13 related change).
Now flash (playing on youtube) while trying to start playback brings down firefox.

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On 2012-06-19T19:43:03+00:00 Lack-x wrote:

(In reply to comment #7)
> The release of adobe-flash 11.2.202.236 has turned things worse (unless it's
> firefox 13 related change).
> Now flash (playing on youtube) while trying to start playback brings down
> firefox.

The original issue (Adobe compiles with SSE2 instructions) hasn't been
fixed yet (at least I don't think so)

So I have 2 questions:
 - Does your /proc/cpuinfo have SSE2
 - Does the workaround of downgrading to 10.3 still work for you?

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On 2012-06-19T23:21:11+00:00 Galtgendo wrote:

Well, the x86 one doesn't and 10.3 still works.
The crash is most likely caused by the non-working plugin triggering the problem behind 13.0.1 release.

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