Flash 9 Crashes Regularly

Question

Flash Player 9 for Linux Seg Faults every time a window/tab
running Flash 9 closes. This behavior is consistent, regular and
reproducible. This has been a long standing problem after version
7. Version 8 (which was development only) and now version 9
continue to exhibit the same behavior. There are many reports of
similar crashes in the Flash Player Forum.
Adobe is curiously silent. Do they even read these forums or
do they use them as "honey pots" to attract bug reports and ignore
them? Adobe has a very serious problem and it is time for them to
get serious.

Answer 1

The following is the tail end results of running strace on
Firefox 2.0.0.1 with Flash 9. www.adobe.com was accessed and the
menu bar clicked so that the window would close and be replaced by
the linked page. Note that it was an munmap call that threw the
Segmentation Fault. As noted in
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/munmap.html,
after releasing the memory mapping "Further references to these
pages result in the generation of a SIGSEGV signal to the process."
read(3,
"\1\30\7\354\20\1\0\0\0\0\0\0O\377\16\10\36\0\0\0`\367\263"..., 32)
= 32
readv(3,
[{"\377\377\377\0\377\377\377\0\377\377\377\0\377\377\377"...,
1088}, {"", 0}], 2 ) = 1088
write(3,
"H\2\26\1\5#\340\0026\7\340\2\21\0\20\0\26\4\7\0\0\30\6"..., 2492)
= 2492
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=14,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=1 6, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=17,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=5,
events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 7, -1) = 1
futex(0x9573860, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x957385c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x9573860, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x957385c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x9573860, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
futex(0x957385c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1
munmap(0xb0876000, 16777216) = 0
munmap(0xb1876000, 7854972) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, NULL, {0xb622be14, [], 0}, 8) = 0
times({tms_utime=1582, tms_stime=34, tms_cutime=0,
tms_cstime=0}) = 1718733705
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {0x8082db6, ~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1],
0}, NULL, 8) = 0
tgkill(8127, 8127, SIGSEGV) = 0
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
unlink("/home/pcrichtn/.mozilla/firefox/default.fwz/lock") =
0
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [SEGV], NULL, 8) = 0
tgkill(8127, 8127, SIGSEGV) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
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