Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 (edited) I just installed the new Flash 7 plugin in MDK 10.0OE and flash no longer works. I get "Plugin initialization failed. Reload the page to try again." in my status bar. This applies to both mozilla and mozilla-firefox: [root@localhost omar]# rpm -qa | grep mozilla mozilla-firefox-0.8-15mdk mozilla-1.6-12mdk [root@localhost omar]# rpm -qa | grep gcc libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk gcc-3.3.2-6mdk gcc-g77-3.3.2-6mdk gcc-cpp-3.3.2-6mdk gcc-c++-3.3.2-6mdk I've tried both the tarball and the RPM. Nothing shows up in ~/.xsession-errors or in /var/log/messages. It doesn't matter whether I run the browser as my regular user or as root, still fails. Any ideas? Flash works in Opera and Konqueror. Edited May 31, 2004 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 Can you post the output of ll (ls -l) in your plugins directory? Here is mine: [zero0w@localhost plugins]$ cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.6/plugins/[zero0w@localhost plugins]$ ll total 20 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 May 27 23:51 flashplayer.xpt -> /usr/local/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 May 27 23:51 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/local/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20112 Mar 23 00:14 libnullplugin.so* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 [root@localhost plugins]# ls -l total 20 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 May 29 09:14 flashplayer.xpt -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 May 29 01:14 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20112 Mar 22 10:14 libnullplugin.so* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 Looks like the plugin is installing fine for you. Maybe you have hit a bug or something, however I have no problem with Mozilla-1.6 on my Mandrake OE 10. You may want to try a Firefox nightly build to see if the error persists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralertx Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 Hi steve, I installed flash plugin version 7 last night and it seems that the installer actually copied the files over to the plugin dir instead of making a symbolic link Check this out: [~] ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird-0.7/plugins/ total 2076 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 856 may 28 23:19 flashplayer.xpt* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2096844 may 28 23:19 libflashplayer.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20176 oct 15 2003 libnullplugin.so* Don't really know if it makes any difference but all i can tell is that flash 7 does seem to work fine. BTW im still using firebird 0.7 as you can see... it might be that you need to downgrade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux_learner Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 from what i have read, you need to copy the plugins. not soft link them. when copying the plugins it should overwrite the old plugins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 In my case, soft link works here. In fact the FlashPlayer 7 RPM would install multiple soft links at different browser paths instead of making several copies of the same plugin files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralertx Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 In fact the FlashPlayer 7 RPM would install multiple soft links at different browser paths instead of making several copies of the same plugin files. I didnt use an rpm but the installer instead, and it copied the files by itself (it just asked me for the path to my browsers directories). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 31, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 I've tried leaving them as symlinks and actually copying them over. Same results. I've gone into KDE Control Center -> Webbrowsing -> plugins and did 'Scan for plugins' and everything. Mozilla sees the plugin, does it not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 what about the /usr/lib/mozilla and ~/.mozilla dirs? Are the plugings there? I haven't upgraded yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 31, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 They weren't, but I copied them over and still no-go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Are the plugings there? :lol: plugings? :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 How are you testing flash ? Knowing Mozilla can be finicky with code --- could it be some bad code on the page your viewing ? http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 31, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 They were in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory, but not ~/.mozilla/plugins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Try the later path to install the plugin, see if it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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