[vlc-devel] Mozilla plugin resize

[Gregor Fuis]

Did you forget to attach the corrected patch?

Regards,
Gregor

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Anthony Loiseau
<thannoy at actech-innovation.com> wrote:
>
> Here is a method to help fixing the segfault of mozplugin.
>
> 1 - compile VLC with debug symbols
> 2 - install it as needed for this debug version to be bind with Firefox
> 3 - close all running Firefox processes
>
> 4 - start firefox program inside a gdb session:
>     * on my fedora10, /usr/bin/firefox is a sh script which handle "-g"
> parameter to easily start firefox in a gdb session, only have to type
> "run" on gdb prompt.
>     * otherwise you can attache a running process or run the real
> binary after having set all env-vars.
>
> 5 - run and wait for the VLC plugin thread to segfault.
> Then extract backtraces from gdb prompt (commands "bt", "bt full",
> "frame number", "print varname-or-expression").
>
>
> If you use Windows, you can do roughly the same. For my own I have
> cygwin installed with gdb and I start firefox in a gdb session using the
> cygwin console.
>
> Regards.
>
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:51 +0100, y.brehon at qiplay.com wrote:
>> - concerning the toolbar option, we have a systematic Firefox segfault
>> when using the toolbar, so could not test, even less understand how it
>> is supposed to work. If someone cares to explain this, and how we can
>> correct the segfault as soon as an embed is set with the toolbar, we
>> will gladly look into it.
>
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