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How to report a crash with Flash Player

chris.campbell Adobe Employee
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Jun 14, 2011 Jun 14, 2011

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In this thread, I'll be describing the different processes for reporting crashes in Flash Player.  We're committed to finding and fixing these bugs and we appreciate any help you can give us!


In general, when reporting a crash, please create a new bug over at bugbase.adobe.com and a new thread so that your issues won't be lost in threads that can sometimes span many pages.  When creating the bug, please include the following information:

1. A brief explanation of what you were doing when the crash occurred.  Screenshots and or video of the steps required are always welcome!  Cell phone captures work great.  Many times we can pick up on small subtleties with a simple picture.

2. An exact URL where the crash occurred.  Even though a crash might appear to happen in many places (like all videos on youtube for example), it still helps us to have an exact URL so that there are no ambiguities in our testing.

3. A crash log!  See the posts below for details on creating crash logs for your particular browser.

4. Your current version of Flash Player

5. In some cases, computer hardware and drivers can contribute to a crash.  Getting your system details is always helpful.  Here are some simple steps to gather system details for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Thanks!

Chris

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Google Chrome for Windows

1. Display hidden files and folders in Explorer.  Details can be found here for XP, Vista, and Windows 7.

2. Open Chrome and cause Flash Player to crash

3. Open an Explorer window and navigate to:

  • XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\CrashReports
  • Vista and Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\CrashReports

4. Locate the crash log named "Chrome-last.dmp" and copy it to your desktop

5. Include the crash log you saved to your desktop in your bug report

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Mozilla Firefox for Windows

1. Display hidden files and folders in Explorer.  Details can be found here for XP, Vista, and Windows 7.

2. Open Firefox and cause Flash Player to crash.  You'll be presented with a screen similar to the one below.  If a crash log was generated, you'll see a "Send crash report" link.  Please don't click this yet.  If Firefox was unable to generate a crash log, you'll see the text "No report available".  In this case, document your bug with all relevant details and include the fact that a crash report could not be generated.

3. Open an Explorer window and navigate to:

  • XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\Pending
  • Vista and Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\Pending

4. To quickly locate the most recent crash, change your "Details" and sort by "Date Modified"

5. Locate the crash log file that ends with .dmp and copy it to your desktop

6. If you had already clicked "Send crash report" referenced in step 2, please open a Firefox window and type "about:crashes" into the address bar.  Copy the appropriate crash URL based on the date submitted

7. Include the crash log you saved to your desktop (step 5) or the crash URL (step 6) in your bug report

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Safari for Vista and Windows 7

1. Download the files "Enable Crash Logging.reg" and "Disable Crash Logging.reg" attached to the bottom of this post.

2. Double click the "Enable Crash Logging.reg" file.  Click Yes to the Registry Editor dialog.

3. Restart your system

4. Open Safari and try to navigate to a page with working Flash content (for example, go to our About Flash page)

5. Reproduce the crash

6. Once Safari has crashed, open an Explorer window and type the following into the navigation bar: %localappdata%

7. Navigate into the CrashDump folder

8. Select a recent iexplore.exe.<somenumber>.dmp file and copy it to your desktop

9. Now that we have a crash log, we'll disable crash logging by double clicking the "Disable Crash Logging.reg" file downloaded in step 1 and selecting OK

10. Restart your system

11. Include the crash log you saved to your desktop in your bug report

Safari for Windows XP

1. Display hidden files and folders in Explorer using this Microsoft document

2. Open Safari and try to navigate to a page with working Flash content (for example, go to our About Flash page)

3. Reproduce the crash

4. Once Safari has crashed, open an Explorer window and navigate to the following folder:

  • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson

5. Locate the file named "user.dmp" and copy it to your desktop.

6. Include the crash log you saved to your desktop in your bug report

Disable Crash Logging.reg.zip
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Internet Explorer for Vista and Windows 7

1. Download the files "Enable Crash Logging.reg" and "Disable Crash Logging.reg" attached to the bottom of this post.

2. Double click the "Enable Crash Logging.reg" file.  Click Yes to the Registry Editor dialog.

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3. Restart your system

4. Open Internet Explorer and try to navigate to a page with working Flash content (for example, go to our About Flash page)

ieabout.png

5. Reproduce the crash

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6. Once Internet Explorer has crashed, open an Explorer window and type the following into the navigation bar: %localappdata%

localappdata.png

7. Navigate into the CrashDump folder

crashdumpfolder.png

8. Select a recent iexplorer.exe.<somenumber>.dmp file and copy it to your desktop

iedmp.png

9. Now that we have a crash log, we'll disable crash logging by double clicking the "Disable Crash Logging.reg" file downloaded in step 1 and selecting OK.  Note this step is optional.  You are free to leave crash logging enabled.  With it enabled, Windows will save your last 10 crashes for future reference.

10. Restart your system

11. Include the crash log you saved to your desktop in your bug report

Internet Explorer for Windows XP

1. Display hidden files and folders in Explorer using this Microsoft document

2. Open Internet Explorer and try to navigate to a page with working Flash content (for example, go to our About Flash page)

iexpabout.png

3. Reproduce the crash

iexpcrash.png

4. Once Internet Explorer has crashed, open an Explorer window and navigate to the following folder:

  • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson

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5. Locate the file named "user.dmp" and copy it to your desktop.

6. Include the crash log you saved to your desktop in your bug report

Enable Crash Logging.reg.zip
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Google Chrome for Mac OS X

1. Open Chrome and cause Flash Player to crash

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3. Open an Finder window and navigate to:

  • <username>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Crash Reports

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4. Locate the crash log file ending with ".dmp" and copy it to your desktop

5. Include the crash log you saved to your desktop in your bug report

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Mozilla Firefox for Mac OS X

1. Open Firefox and cause Flash Player to crash.  You'll be presented with a screen similar to the one below.  If a crash log was generated, you'll see a "Send crash report" link.  Please don't click this yet.  If Firefox was unable to generate a crash log, you'll see the text "No report available".  In this case, document your bug with all relevant details and include the fact that a crash report could not be generated.

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2. Open a Finder window and navigate to:

  • <username>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Crash Reports/pending

ffpending.png

3. To quickly locate the most recent crash,bsort by "Date Modified"

4. Locate the crash log file that ends with .dmp and copy it to your desktop

5. If you had already clicked "Send crash report" referenced in step 1, please open a Firefox window and type "about:crashes" into the address bar.  Copy the appropriate crash URL based on the date submitted

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6. Include the crash log you saved to your desktop (step 4) or the crash URL (step 5) in your bug report

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Google Chrome for Linux

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For full details on generating a backtrace for your Flash Player crash, please visit: Debugging Chromium crashes and include the text file to your bug report.

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Mozilla Firefox for Linux

1. Open Firefox and cause Flash Player to crash.  You'll be presented with a screen similar to the one below.  If a crash log was generated, you'll see a "Send crash report" link.  Please don't click this yet.  If Firefox was unable to generate a crash log, you'll see the text "No report available".  In this case, document your bug with all relevant details and include the fact that a crash report could not be generated.

linffcrash.png

2. Open a file browser window, verify "View->Show Hidden Files" is enabled and navigate to:

  • Home/<UserName>/.mozilla/firefox/Crash Reports/pending

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3. To quickly locate the most recent crash, arrange items "By Modification Date"

4. Locate the crash log file that ends with .dmp and copy it to your desktop

5. If you had already clicked "Send crash report" referenced in step 1, please open a Firefox window and type "about:crashes" into the address bar.  Copy the appropriate crash URL based on the date submitted

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6. Include the crash log you saved to your desktop (step 4) or the crash URL (step 5) in your bug report

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