Flex debugger not working on Ubuntu 8.10 : IDEA-48589

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Project	IntelliJ IDEA
Priority	Normal
Type	Bug
Fix versions	No Fix versions
State	Obsolete
Assignee	Alexander Doroshko
Subsystem	Flex Support
Affected versions	No Affected versions
Fixed in build	No Fixed in build

Created by Juan Isern
2 years ago (13 Apr 2009 09:00)
Updated by Alexander Doroshko
18 months ago (19 Jul 2010 17:22)
Jira: IDEADEV-39067
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IDEA-48589 Flex debugger not working on Ubuntu 8.10

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Hello guys,

I've been unable to make the flex debugger work on Ubuntu 8.10.

I constantly get the "Unexpected debugged player communication problem" message, referring to a problem that apparently exists with Firefox 3.x
Unfortunately, I tried using Firefox 2 and Opera and I had no better luck.

Taking a glance at the execution log, this is the stacktrace that ultimately produces the error message:

2009-04-13 00:12:43,253 [2064496] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - IntelliJ IDEA 8.1 Build #9732
2009-04-13 00:12:43,253 [2064496] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - JDK: 1.6.0_11
2009-04-13 00:12:43,253 [2064496] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM
2009-04-13 00:12:43,253 [2064496] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
2009-04-13 00:12:43,253 [2064496] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - OS: Linux
2009-04-13 00:12:43,253 [2064496] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - Last Action: Debug
2009-04-13 00:12:43,253 [2064496] ERROR - plication.impl.ApplicationImpl - Original exception:

java.io.IOException: Stream closed

…

java.io.IOException: Stream closed
 at java.io.BufferedInputStream.getBufIfOpen(BufferedInputStream.java:145)
 at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:308)
 at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.readBytes(StreamDecoder.java:264)
 at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.implRead(StreamDecoder.java:306)
 at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.read(StreamDecoder.java:158)
 at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:167)
 at com.intellij.lang.javascript.flex.debug.FlexDebugProcess$MyFdbOutputReader.readLine(FlexDebugProcess.java:632)
 at com.intellij.lang.javascript.flex.debug.FlexDebugProcess.processOneCommandLoop(FlexDebugProcess.java:225)
 at com.intellij.lang.javascript.flex.debug.FlexDebugProcess.access$200(FlexDebugProcess.java:45)
 at com.intellij.lang.javascript.flex.debug.FlexDebugProcess$2.run(FlexDebugProcess.java:171)
 at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl$5.run(ApplicationImpl.java:8)
 at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
 at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl$1$1.run(ApplicationImpl.java:5)

The privileges on the fdb binary are set okay. My version of Flex SDK is 3.3.0 (#4852)

Thanks a lot in advance!

Environment: Ubuntu 8.10, Linux beetlebum 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Juan Isern

14 Apr 2009 02:23

2 years ago

It seems that the problem lied on the fact that flashplayer.exe was not present in the PATH environment variable. As a workaround, the inclusion of the directory that contains flashplayer in PATH makes it work okay.

It'd be convenient not to depend on specific environment configurations (although I'm not sure if fdb is responsible for that)

Regards!

Alexander Doroshko

19 Jul 2010 17:22

18 months ago

1. Detaching of Flash Player Debugger on Linux is a known Adobe's bug: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1421. It seems that they are not very quick in fixing it :(.

2. In IDEA 10 there is an option in Flex run configuration dialog: what program to use for running your application. You can choose default system application, any of your browsers or specify path to Flash Player executable.

Related Changes

Resolved Date

18 months ago (19 Jul 2010 17:22)

State

Open→ Obsolete

Assignee

Alexander Doroshko (alexander.doroshko)→ Alexander Doroshko

Subsystem

<lost change>→ Flex Support