On 10:23 Sun 21 Feb , Mitchell Laks wrote: Some more information I found on line.
My machine that is crashing is an older AMD64 machine Athlon 64 3000+ (socket 754) which lacks the lahf instruction. see this discussing ----------- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273718 Comment #17 From Maks Verver 2009-07-20 12:40:53 0000 [reply] ------- I'm using an Athlon 64 3000+ (socket 754) which lacks the lahf instruction and I've had this problem for months, but I never really understood what the problem was, until the latest ebuild update spelled it out for me (thanks for that!) Understanding the problem, it was relatively easy to hack together a workaround that works by trapping the illegal instruction signal and then emulating its effects. This can be implemented as a small dynamic library that is placed in the plugin directory (so it's loaded whenever the Flash plug-in is loaded) or forced to load by adding it to LD_PRELOAD. I have attached the source in the hope that it might be useful to other users. The downside of the current ebuild is that it prevents the 64-bit plugin from being installed through portage at all. Would you consider bundling my workaround for 64-bit users who lack the lafh instruction or at least change the error into a warning? or http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268336 Looking around i think that lahf_lm instruction isn't set in AMD 64 cpu family 15. Could anyone confirm this? Maybe we could consider this as a USE flag? Well this is only an idea... Thanks again to the people involved in solving this bug... Comment #20 From Maik Nijhuis 2009-08-03 09:06:42 0000 [reply] ------- The lahf workaround works perfectly! I tried both adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 and adobe-flash-10.0.32.18, on my non-lahf AMD64 machine. Thanks everybody! --------- so there is a download on their forum of a library to compile and install in the .mozilla/plugins/ directory to avoid the crashes.... I will have to look into this to try it. Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100221155906.ga8...@earthlink.net