lynch Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 I seem to have lost the flash-plugin on my 64-bit system after trying to change the master channel in my sound mixer. When I go to Comcast's The Fan or Youtube all I get is a blank space where the video used to be. There is no player showing on Youtube, just a white space where the player screen used to be. On Comcast it opens to a new window like normal but the " loading...." progress bar is not present and all I get is a black screen and that message that says " done" at the bottom of Firefox when a page is done loading. I had updated lame and kaudiocreator but everything still worked as far as can recall. tia lynch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Do you have sound with other applications now? Have you changed the mixer settings back to where they once worked properly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynch Posted June 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Thanks for your reply. Never lost sound except with the flash-plugin. Yes, I did change the mixer stuff back but no joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Open a terminal (konsole) and (as root) run nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so Restart Firefox and see if your flash plugin works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynch Posted June 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 I did a slight variation on that: nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib//flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so That got the video portion back, though, now I have no sound in flash. Now I'm back to where I started. Before, when I was trying to get sound to work with flash, I thought I fixed it by moving my npwrapper.libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins. And that command you suggested needs to be run every time I open Firefox; it doesnt stick. I am using Mandriva 2008.1 free spring x86-64. thanks for helping lynch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Did you ever have sound in the first place (for flash). Make sure you have the i586 (i think) libraries installed for your sound server (IIRC this is pulse audio on Mandriva 2008.1) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Before, when I was trying to get sound to work with flash, I thought I fixed it by moving my npwrapper.libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins. I'm not currently using the 64-bit version, but I would suggest that you try moving the npwrapper.libflashplayer.so back to its original location. Then try the command that I previously posted. Â Please see the 2008.1_Errata. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynch Posted June 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 (edited) Update: I now have flash working- video and sound- but this thing isnt solved, yet. I uninstalled flash-plugin and FF and had to uninstall kerry/beagle/gluezilla etc along with it in order get all the libs associated with them off so I could re-install Flash and FF. Well after that I ran nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so re-started FF and everything worked again. Trouble is, I have to run the nspluginwrapper command everytime I want to use Flash. I tried running the 32bit version of FF and it said I needed to either update Flash or make sure Java was enabled. :roll: I got rid of that too. And so it goes... Â :) edited command I posted. Edited June 20, 2008 by lynch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Well after that I rannspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so re-started FF and everything worked again. Trouble is, I have to run the nspluginwrapper command everytime I want to use Flash. First of all, do you run this command as root? :unsure: Â Please run the command as root, then post the output of nspluginwrapper -l Also post the output of cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins; ls Then start firefox from the command line with (as user) mozilla-firefox play some flash video, then close firefox and post everything in the terminal. Now restart firefox from the command line again and play some flash video, then close firefox and post everything in the terminal one more time. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynch Posted June 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Not at that machine right at the moment but I'll do that as soon as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynch Posted June 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 First off, I did not run the command as root and I was mistaken in the command I was telling you about; I posted nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so  when it was actually nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so  When I ran nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so  I got this: [root@localhost ~]# nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so nspluginwrapper: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so is not a valid NPAPI plugin  When I ran nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so it just returned me to the root prompt.  OK then I did this: [root@localhost ~]# nspluginwrapper -l /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Original plugin: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so Wrapper version string: 0.9.91.5  For the next command I altered it to this: cd /usr/lib/flash-plugin; ls  and it resulted in this: [root@localhost ~]# cd /usr/lib/flash-plugin; ls homecleanup* libflashplayer.so* LICENSE README setup*  Then I ran this: cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins; ls -la total 120 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-05 17:14 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-06-05 17:14 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 2008-06-05 17:34 libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3251 2008-06-05 17:34 libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1339 2008-06-05 17:34 libtotem-cone-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4504 2008-06-05 17:34 libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1237 2008-06-05 17:34 libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2235 2008-06-05 17:34 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt -rwx------ 1 root root 74984 2008-06-20 15:11 npwrapper.libflashplayer.so* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 61 2008-04-16 18:50 npwrapper.so -> ../../../../usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/linux/npwrapper.so*   Here is the output of FF the 1st time I ran it from the CLI: [lynch@localhost ~]$ firefox LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied] Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8 (npviewer.bin:10806): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "ia_ora", Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8 (npviewer.bin:10855): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "ia_ora", Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8 (gecko:10768): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed I could watch and listen to the flash video I watched at youtube.  Here is the output of FF the 2nd time I ran it from the CLI: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied] Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8 (npviewer.bin:11122): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "ia_ora", Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8 (npviewer.bin:11162): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "ia_ora", Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8 I was able to watch and listen again without problem. I hope this is what you wanted. On the 64bit version of Spring the libs and stuff are in different places so I posted a few extra things. :) I'll check back later. Thanks for the help. lynch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 OK, I will not give us both a headache with any more questions at this time. Please post back if it gives you any more problems. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynch Posted June 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Heheh, yeah, let's take the weekend off. It seems to work OK now. Thanks for the help. lynch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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