Pluginloader.exe crashes (Texture Error 0x8876086c) - mostly Ubuntu 13.10

HI David,

you're not the only one that experiences the same problem - we also saw a lot of other report, that people seem to have similar problems with Ubuntu 13.10, but we don't really have a good explanation for that. We also tested it ourself by installing a fresh Ubuntu 13.10 version (not updated, PC contains a Nvidia graphic card), and didn't notice any problem at all.

***********************************************************************************************
If you experience a similar problem, you can try to use the workaround provided below. Nevertheless
we would really like to get the following information from as many people as possible to compare
the results and find out what causes the problems. Thanks for your time!
***********************************************************************************************

In order to determine what exactly causes the problems on 13.10, please attach:

1) The output of the following command:
dpkg --list | grep "\(wine-.*-installer\|wine-compholio\|pipelight\)" | sed 's/ \+ /\t/g' | cut -f2-3;

2) The full output of:
glxinfo

3) The output of:
lspci | grep VGA

4) Logs when running the browser with (you can replace firefox with chromium/google-chrome/... or whatever you prefer):
firefox &> ~/pipelight-1.log

5) and with (all in one line!):
WINEDEBUG=+d3d9,+d3d,+wgl firefox &> ~/pipelight-2.log

***********************************************************************************************
WORKAROUND: Please note that this workaround will stay active until you manually deactivate it again.

# md5sum: 432697b21f0e94230f30ec57739f60b0
sudo wget -O /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel http://ix.io/8H3
sudo chmod +x /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel

# disable HW acceleration
/usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --disable

# do this manually when the bug is fixed:
/usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --enable
***********************************************************************************************

Sebastian

1) The output of the following command:
dpkg --list | grep "\(wine-.*-installer\|wine-compholio\|pipelight\)" | sed
's/ \+ /\t/g' | cut -f2-3;

pipelight-multi 0.2.0~ubuntu13.10.1
wine-browser-installer 0.8.6~ubuntu13.10.1
wine-compholio 1.7.4-1~ubuntu13.10.1
wine-silverlight5.1-installer 0.8.6~ubuntu13.10.1

2) The full output of:
glxinfo

name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile,
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info,
    GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_SGI_swap_control
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
    GLX_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address,
GLX_ARB_multisample,
    GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float,
    GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
    GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
    GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
    GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) G33 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1, GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3,
    GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5, GL_APPLE_object_purgeable,
    GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object,
    GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility, GL_ARB_copy_buffer, GL_ARB_debug_output,
    GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
    GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex, GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location,
    GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader,
    GL_ARB_framebuffer_object, GL_ARB_get_program_binary,
    GL_ARB_half_float_pixel, GL_ARB_internalformat_query,
    GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata, GL_ARB_map_buffer_range, GL_ARB_multisample,
    GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_obje...

The work around gives me a Netflix error N8109

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Sebastian Lackner <email address hidden>wrote:

> HI David,
>
> you're not the only one that experiences the same problem - we also saw
> a lot of other report, that people seem to have similar problems with
> Ubuntu 13.10, but we don't really have a good explanation for that. We
> also tested it ourself by installing a fresh Ubuntu 13.10 version (not
> updated, PC contains a Nvidia graphic card), and didn't notice any
> problem at all.
>
>
> ***********************************************************************************************
> If you experience a similar problem, you can try to use the workaround
> provided below. Nevertheless
> we would really like to get the following information from as many people
> as possible to compare
> the results and find out what causes the problems. Thanks for your time!
>
> ***********************************************************************************************
>
> In order to determine what exactly causes the problems on 13.10, please
> attach:
>
> 1) The output of the following command:
> dpkg --list | grep "\(wine-.*-installer\|wine-compholio\|pipelight\)" |
> sed 's/ \+ /\t/g' | cut -f2-3;
>
> 2) The full output of:
> glxinfo
>
> 3) The output of:
> lspci | grep VGA
>
> 4) Logs when running the browser with (you can replace firefox with
> chromium/google-chrome/... or whatever you prefer):
> firefox &> ~/pipelight-1.log
>
> 5) and with (all in one line!):
> WINEDEBUG=+d3d9,+d3d,+wgl firefox &> ~/pipelight-2.log
>
>
>
> ***********************************************************************************************
> WORKAROUND: Please note that this workaround will stay active until you
> manually deactivate it again.
>
> # md5sum: 432697b21f0e94230f30ec57739f60b0
> sudo wget -O /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel http://ix.io/8H3
> sudo chmod +x /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel
>
> # disable HW acceleration
> /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --disable
>
> # do this manually when the bug is fixed:
> /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --enable
>
> ***********************************************************************************************
>
> Sebastian
>
> ** Changed in: pipelight
> Status: New => Triaged
>
> ** Changed in: pipelight
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Pluginloader.exe crashes in Netflix
> + (X)Ubuntu 13.10: Pluginloader.exe crashes in Netflix
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243200
>
> Title:
> (X)Ubuntu 13.10: Pluginloader.exe crashes in Netflix
>
> Status in Pipelight:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Crashing both in Chromium and Firefox. OS is Xubuntu 13.10 Worked
> well with 13.04 but not after ugrade ... UGHH!! I am a newbie to
> Xubuntu. Any guidance appreciated.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pipelight/+bug/1243200/+subscriptions
>

Hi,

error N8109 is related to a wrong user agent, see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pipelight/+bug/1213672
Take a look at this FAQ how to install one: https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2351 - if you already have installed one, you probably have to select again FF15 after the update?

BTW:
Your logs seem to be a bit incomplete, the pipelight-1 and pipelight-2 logs just contain "command not found", which means you haven't inserted the correct name of the browser you're using. Depending on your browser this can be "chromium-browser", "chromium", "google-chrome", ...

Sebastian

Just forgot to mention: the previous UA switcher most likely does not work anymore for Chromium 13.10 (as written in the FAQ). You'll have to set the user agent via commandline (or use a different browser).

You can always use our diagnostic page to check the current UA string: http://fds-team.de/pipelight/
when everything is correct it should be: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1

Admittedly, I am a newbie to Linux. Just reran the commands with
"chromium-browser" and each command opened a new Chromium window. All the
logs contained after I browsed to Netflix and got the crash were this line:

Created new window in existing browser session.

Help me with what I am doing wrong and I will get the info to you. And I
really appreciate your help!!!

Ironically, I created a dual boot machine with one of my stronger PCs on
the network and Pipelight is working fine on it.

I have tried this on both Chromium and Firefox with the same result. I
know this stronger PC has a different video adapter and am betting that is
the difference

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Sebastian Lackner <email address hidden>wrote:

> HI David,
>
> you're not the only one that experiences the same problem - we also saw
> a lot of other report, that people seem to have similar problems with
> Ubuntu 13.10, but we don't really have a good explanation for that. We
> also tested it ourself by installing a fresh Ubuntu 13.10 version (not
> updated, PC contains a Nvidia graphic card), and didn't notice any
> problem at all.
>
>
> ***********************************************************************************************
> If you experience a similar problem, you can try to use the workaround
> provided below. Nevertheless
> we would really like to get the following information from as many people
> as possible to compare
> the results and find out what causes the problems. Thanks for your time!
>
> ***********************************************************************************************
>
> In order to determine what exactly causes the problems on 13.10, please
> attach:
>
> 1) The output of the following command:
> dpkg --list | grep "\(wine-.*-installer\|wine-compholio\|pipelight\)" |
> sed 's/ \+ /\t/g' | cut -f2-3;
>
> 2) The full output of:
> glxinfo
>
> 3) The output of:
> lspci | grep VGA
>
> 4) Logs when running the browser with (you can replace firefox with
> chromium/google-chrome/... or whatever you prefer):
> firefox &> ~/pipelight-1.log
>
> 5) and with (all in one line!):
> WINEDEBUG=+d3d9,+d3d,+wgl firefox &> ~/pipelight-2.log
>
>
>
> ***********************************************************************************************
> WORKAROUND: Please note that this workaround will stay active until you
> manually deactivate it again.
>
> # md5sum: 432697b21f0e94230f30ec57739f60b0
> sudo wget -O /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel http://ix.io/8H3
> sudo chmod +x /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel
>
> # disable HW acceleration
> /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --disable
>
> # do this manually when the bug is fixed:
> /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --enable
>
> ***********************************************************************************************
>
> Sebastian
>
> ** Changed in: pipelight
> Status: New => Triaged
>
> ** Changed in: pipelight
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Pluginloader.exe crashes in Netflix
> + (X)Ubuntu 13.10: Pluginloader.exe crashes in Netflix
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
...

You should get the desired output when you close all other browser windows first. If you still just get the message, that a new browser window was opened, you probably have to kill the remaining background instances manually, e.g. with:

killall chromium-browser

but in most cases it should be sufficient to close all browser windows. The debug output would especially be useful when it crashes. To make it crashing again, just re-enable GPU acceleration with:

/usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --enable

then create the logs, and after this re-enable the workaround such that you're still able to use pipelight in the meantime.

Did you try to set the UA string via commandline to fix the error N8109? This remaining problem is unrelated to the crash, but also caused by a change in Ubuntu 13.10, which breaks most (or all) existing user agent switchers. For Chromium you can use the following workaround (again close all other browser windows first):

chromium-browser --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1"

Sebastian

I CAN be taught!!!

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Sebastian Lackner
<email address hidden>wrote:

> You should get the desired output when you close all other browser
> windows first. If you still just get the message, that a new browser
> window was opened, you probably have to kill the remaining background
> instances manually, e.g. with:
>
> killall chromium-browser
>
> but in most cases it should be sufficient to close all browser windows.
> The debug output would especially be useful when it crashes. To make it
> crashing again, just re-enable GPU acceleration with:
>
> /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --enable
>
> then create the logs, and after this re-enable the workaround such that
> you're still able to use pipelight in the meantime.
>
> Did you try to set the UA string via commandline to fix the error N8109?
> This remaining problem is unrelated to the crash, but also caused by a
> change in Ubuntu 13.10, which breaks most (or all) existing user agent
> switchers. For Chromium you can use the following workaround (again
> close all other browser windows first):
>
> chromium-browser --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64;
> rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1"
>
> Sebastian
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243200
>
> Title:
> (X)Ubuntu 13.10: Pluginloader.exe crashes in Netflix
>
> Status in Pipelight:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Crashing both in Chromium and Firefox. OS is Xubuntu 13.10 Worked
> well with 13.04 but not after ugrade ... UGHH!! I am a newbie to
> Xubuntu. Any guidance appreciated.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pipelight/+bug/1243200/+subscriptions
>

Yes, verified the UA string. Still crashes with an N8109. Not really
worried about it much today. If it becomes a huge issue I will pursue it
more.

Thank you so much for your help

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:15 AM, David Wike <email address hidden> wrote:

> I CAN be taught!!!
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Sebastian Lackner <<email address hidden>
> > wrote:
>
>> You should get the desired output when you close all other browser
>> windows first. If you still just get the message, that a new browser
>> window was opened, you probably have to kill the remaining background
>> instances manually, e.g. with:
>>
>> killall chromium-browser
>>
>> but in most cases it should be sufficient to close all browser windows.
>> The debug output would especially be useful when it crashes. To make it
>> crashing again, just re-enable GPU acceleration with:
>>
>> /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --enable
>>
>> then create the logs, and after this re-enable the workaround such that
>> you're still able to use pipelight in the meantime.
>>
>> Did you try to set the UA string via commandline to fix the error N8109?
>> This remaining problem is unrelated to the crash, but also caused by a
>> change in Ubuntu 13.10, which breaks most (or all) existing user agent
>> switchers. For Chromium you can use the following workaround (again
>> close all other browser windows first):
>>
>> chromium-browser --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64;
>> rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1"
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243200
>>
>> Title:
>> (X)Ubuntu 13.10: Pluginloader.exe crashes in Netflix
>>
>> Status in Pipelight:
>> Triaged
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Crashing both in Chromium and Firefox. OS is Xubuntu 13.10 Worked
>> well with 13.04 but not after ugrade ... UGHH!! I am a newbie to
>> Xubuntu. Any guidance appreciated.
>>
>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pipelight/+bug/1243200/+subscriptions
>>
>
>

Thanks for the logs, this definitely should help to track down the error.

Concerning error N8109: Did you check with the diagnostic page, if you haven't done yet, and post the output of it (of course when the workaround is enabled)? http://fds-team.de/pipelight/

If the diagnostic page says "Okay" everywhere, then try to do:

rm -rf ~/.wine-pipelight

to ensure that there are no corrupt files remaining, and try again.

Hi,

I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 13.10 on my computer with an NVIDIA graphic card and had the same problem. As I already expected the problem is not directly related to Pipelight but is caused by bad graphic drivers. The current stable version of the NVIDIA driver had problems with 32 bit applications and I could solve this by upgrading to the newest beta version (331.17). For some reason the same stable driver and kernel worked with Ubuntu 12.04, so I think the problem must be related to the newer Xorg/Mesa version.

We can not do much about this as the problems is somewhere in Ubuntu or in the graphic drivers, but I would recommend to disable hardware acceleration till the problem is fixed and try to re-enable it on the next update of the graphic drivers.

Michael

Thanks for your help!! It is working fine with hardware acceleration
disabled, so I am good to go right now.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Michael Müller <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 13.10 on my computer with an NVIDIA
> graphic card and had the same problem. As I already expected the problem
> is not directly related to Pipelight but is caused by bad graphic
> drivers. The current stable version of the NVIDIA driver had problems
> with 32 bit applications and I could solve this by upgrading to the
> newest beta version (331.17). For some reason the same stable driver and
> kernel worked with Ubuntu 12.04, so I think the problem must be related
> to the newer Xorg/Mesa version.
>
> We can not do much about this as the problems is somewhere in Ubuntu or
> in the graphic drivers, but I would recommend to disable hardware
> acceleration till the problem is fixed and try to re-enable it on the
> next update of the graphic drivers.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243200
>
> Title:
> (X)Ubuntu 13.10: Pluginloader.exe crashes in Netflix
>
> Status in Pipelight:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Crashing both in Chromium and Firefox. OS is Xubuntu 13.10 Worked
> well with 13.04 but not after ugrade ... UGHH!! I am a newbie to
> Xubuntu. Any guidance appreciated.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pipelight/+bug/1243200/+subscriptions
>

The work around ie, /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --disable, fixed my issue ;) Thanks!

I'm also having trouble getting Netflix video to play after upgrading to 13.10. I can login into Netflix and select a video, but once I hit play, the firefox tab goes black and I get a popup notification that says "the program pluginloader.exe has experienced a problem and needs to close". This happens in both Firefox and Chrome. I've tried all the steps in list in the FAQ here: https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2348
But it doesn't help. I've run the the pipelight diagnostic tool and every looks okay (user agent, etc.).

When I ran the terminal commands you suggested and I got this as an (partial) output for firefox &> ~/pipelight-1.log:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) Z:\usr\share\pipelight\pluginloader.exe
 00000023 0
 00000009 0 <==
0000000e services.exe
 0000001e 0
 0000001d 0
 00000018 0
 00000016 0
 00000014 0
 00000010 0
 0000000f 0
00000012 winedevice.exe
 0000001c 0
 00000019 0
 00000017 0
 00000013 0
0000001a plugplay.exe
 00000020 0
 0000001f 0
 0000001b 0
00000021 explorer.exe
 00000022 0
[PIPELIGHT:LIN:silverlight5.1] ../common/common.c:252:readCommands(): unable to receive data.

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

There seems to be a problem with ../common/common.c:252:readCommands(). I had the same error when I ran WINEDEBUG=+d3d9,+d3d,+wgl firefox &> ~/pipelight-2.log.

Does this help identify the problem?

Here is the full output for the terminal commands you requested:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1) The output of the following command:
dpkg --list | grep "\(wine-.*-installer\|wine-compholio\|pipelight\)" | sed 's/ \+ /\t/g' | cut -f2-3;

pipelight 0.2.2~ubuntu13.10.1
pipelight-multi 0.2.2~ubuntu13.10.1
wine-browser-installer 0.8.6~ubuntu13.10.1
wine-compholio 1.7.7~ubuntu13.10.1
wine-mpg2splt-installer 0.8.6~ubuntu13.10.1
wine-silverlight4-installer 0.8.6~ubuntu13.10.1
wine-silverlight5.1-installer 0.8.6~ubuntu13.10.1

2) The full output of:
glxinfo

name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile,
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
    GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_SGI_swap_control
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
    GLX_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
    GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_pro...

I just tried your work around, and it didn't work for me.
***********************************************************************************************
WORKAROUND: Please note that this workaround will stay active until you manually deactivate it again.

# md5sum: 432697b21f0e94230f30ec57739f60b0
sudo wget -O /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel http://ix.io/8H3
sudo chmod +x /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel

# disable HW acceleration
/usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --disable

# do this manually when the bug is fixed:
/usr/share/pipelight/pipelight-hw-accel --enable
************************************************************************************

I got the same error:

[PIPELIGHT:LIN:silverlight5.1] ../common/common.c:252:readCommands(): unable to receive data.

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

I noticed Davide Wike had the same error in his pipelight-1.log file. Maybe this problem with "../common/common.c:252:readCommands(): unable to receive data." should be it's own bug?

For whatever reason, the work around listed here for disabling HW acceleration didn't work, but the instructions listed here did:

https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/238949

Now netflix works! Though HW acceleration would be nice :)

dpkg --list | grep "\(wine-.*-installer\|wine-compholio\|pipelight\)" | sed 's/ \+ /\t/g' | cut -f2-3;
pipelight 0.2.2~ubuntu13.10.1
pipelight-multi 0.2.2~ubuntu13.10.1
wine-compholio 1.7.8~ubuntu13.10.1

--------------------------

glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile,
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
    GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_SGI_swap_control
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
    GLX_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
    GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float,
    GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
    GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
    GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
    GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1, GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3,
    GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5, GL_APPLE_object_purgeable,
    GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object,
    GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility, GL_ARB_copy_buffer, GL_ARB_debug_output,
    GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
    GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex, GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location,
    GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader,
    GL_ARB_framebuffer_object, GL_ARB_get_program_binary,
    GL_ARB_half_float_pixel, GL_ARB_internalformat_query,
    GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata, GL_ARB_map_buffer_range, GL_ARB_multisample,
    GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object, GL_ARB_point_parameters,
    GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_provok...

Hi all,

today someone joined our IRC channel who also had trouble with the Intel drivers. The pluginloader didn't crash but the fps was very low although the Intel driver was working correctly. After switching to a newer version of xorg / mesa stack using the "Updated and Optimized Open Graphics Drivers" by oibaf ( https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/graphics-drivers/ ) the problem was gone.

So it may be worth for you to try the same and check whether it solves the problem. Anyway I need to warn you that this PPA is not officially supported by Ubuntu and that you may not be able to boot into the GUI mode if something goes wrong, so you should know how to return to the old packages in this case. If you are running 13.10 (the PPA provides only packages for 13.10) and you want to continue nevertheless, execute the following steps:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and reboot to make the changes take effect. Finally check whether Pipelight works with GPU Acceleration enabled (Don't forget to execute /usr/share/pipelight/configure-silverlight and enable hardware acceleration again!)

Michael

pipelight 0.2.3~ubuntu13.10.1
pipelight-multi 0.2.3~ubuntu13.10.1
wine-compholio 1.7.10~ubuntu13.10.1

name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile,
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
    GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_SGI_swap_control
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
    GLX_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
    GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float,
    GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
    GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
    GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_EXT_import_context,
    GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
    GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
    GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
    GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1, GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3,
    GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5, GL_APPLE_object_purgeable,
    GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object,
    GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility, GL_ARB_copy_buffer, GL_ARB_debug_output,
    GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers,
    GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex, GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location,
    GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader,
    GL_ARB_framebuffer_object, GL_ARB_get_program_binary,
    GL_ARB_half_float_pixel, GL_ARB_internalformat_query,
    GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata, GL_ARB_map_buffer_range, GL_ARB_multisample,
    GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object, GL_ARB_point_parameters,
    GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_provoking_vertex, GL_ARB_robustness,
    GL_ARB_sampler_objects, GL_ARB_shader_objects,
    GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_s...

Hi Sebastian (slackner), I'm having the same issue and I currently have Ubuntu 14.04. Since I upgraded to Suacy Salamander the issue has been on and off but I still don't understand why and I'd really appreciate your thoughts / comments / support, if possible, with this. Please find below my outputs for the indicated commands in Comment #2. Is there anything I need to do to fix the issue in my system?
Thanks in advance for any help I can get.

daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ dpkg --list | grep "\(wine-.*-installer\|wine-compholio\|pipelight\)" | sed 's/ \+ /\t/g' | cut -f2-3
pipelight-multi 0.2.7.1~ubuntu14.04.1
wine-compholio 1.7.23~ubuntu14.04.1
wine-compholio-amd64 1.7.23~ubuntu14.04.1
wine-compholio-i386 1.7.23~ubuntu14.04.1
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_OML_swap_method,
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
    GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
    GLX_SGI_swap_control
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_AMD_gpu_association, GLX_ARB_create_context,
    GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_buffer_age,
    GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_swap_control,
    GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
    GLX_MESA_allocate_memory, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
    GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_OML_swap_method,
    GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
    GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_swap_group, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_buffer_age,
    GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_swap_control, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
    GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
    GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier,
    GLX_SGIX_swap_group, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
    GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6450
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3.12798 Core Profile Context 13.101
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
    GL_AMDX_debug_output, GL_AMDX_vertex_shader_tessellator,
    GL_AMD_conservative_depth, GL_AMD_debug_output,
    GL_AMD_depth_clamp_separate, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend,
    GL_AMD_multi_draw_indirect, GL_AMD_name_gen_delete,
    GL_AMD_performance_monitor, GL_...

I came here while searching for "pluginloader.exe crashes." In my case it turned out the culprit was being out of space on the root partition while trying to run Windows Flash Player via pipelight.