Don't know if it is related, but I'm facing a plugin container hang and nouveau seems to be guilty in some way. Got this thread with gdb : Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f4dd7b37940 (LWP 2961)): #0 0x00007f4dd2294337 in sched_yield () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f4dbff0ee41 in ?? () from /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so.1 #2 0x00007f4dbff9eca5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so.1 #3 0x00007f4dbfe019c1 in vl_screen_destroy () from /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so.1 #4 0x00007f4dbff073a1 in vlVdpDeviceDestroy () from /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so.1 #5 0x00007f4dc4c252a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #6 0x00007f4dc48871b5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #7 0x00007f4dc4888000 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #8 0x00007f4dc4e167c8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #9 0x00007f4dc4e1cf7d in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #10 0x00007f4dc4e1ea6b in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so Cannot access memory at address 0x7ffff106a948 Or is it a flash plugin bug ?