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No more Flash [solved]


Steve Scrimpshire
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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.

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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*

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[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*

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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.

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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 :screwy:

 

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 :jester:

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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.

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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).

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