[Trac #1105] trapped in gnash (matchbox/sugar/browser bugs?)

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#1105: trapped in gnash (matchbox/sugar/browser bugs?)
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 Reporter:  AlbertCahalan  |       Owner:  blizzard 
     Type:  defect         |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  distro         |    Keywords:           
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 I went to a web site (URL below) to look at a dancing ant. I clicked on
 the various options to make him dance, choose music, etc. The flash seemed
 to misbehave, though I don't know what it normally looks like.

 Then I believe the web browser crashed. There is no evidence of an OOM
 situation in dmesg output. I ended up with a full-screen gnash, using a
 raw GTK GUI with a very non-Sugar menu bar across the top. In the frame,
 there was no evidence of the web browser and thus no way to exit. I looked
 at the about dialog, confirming that this was indeed gnash. I looked at
 the preferences dialog. Here I got even more stuck, with no way to close
 the dialog.

 I used Alt-Ctrl-F1 to get a command line. A ps command showed a sugar-
 activity-factory webactivity thing with two gnash children, one a zombie.
 The non-zombie one had the crash URL in the the command line, which is
 where I'm reporting it from.

 I killed the non-zombie gnash, creating a second zombie. The sugar-
 activity-factory thing is still there. It has 6 threads. The first thread
 is sleeping in pipe_wait. The other threads are also sleeping, but the
 kernel fails to report where.

 Now I use Alt-Ctrl-F7 to get back into X. Sugar once again thinks there is
 a web browser. Something is full-screen but not redrawing; there are
 remnants of Sugar's frame on that broken app to make things confusing.
 Selecting the web browser does not provide a kill/share drop-down.

 Back to the command line to kill sugar-activity-factory... OK, that fixes
 it.

 Here is the URL. Probably geocities will refuse a direct link to the
 flash; you might need to load a page or two.

 /usr/bin/gnash -v -x 0 -j 0 -k 0 -u
 http://www.geocities.com/weeklymuse/KidStuff2/KSgames/dancingant.swf -U
 http://www.geocities.com/weeklymuse/KidStuff2/KSgames/dancingant.html?200719
 -P height=363 -P src=dancingant.swf -P type=application/x-shockwave-flash
 -P width=495 -

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