Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3->3.6.4 update.

[Mick]

On Sunday 04 July 2010 10:35:06 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 03 July 2010 23:54:56 Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 July 2010 20:31:35 you wrote:
> > > On Saturday 03 July 2010 13:55:50 Mick wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 03 July 2010 12:37:53 you wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday 03 July 2010 13:30:46 Mick wrote:
> > > > > > On Friday 02 July 2010 08:51:21 netfab wrote:
> > > > > > > Le Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:05:37 -0700,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Grant a écrit :
> > > > > > > > I did have an extra libflashplayer.so, I deleted it, I
> > > > > > > > deleted pluginreg.dat, I re-emerged adobe-flash, and I
> > > > > > > > restarted firefox, but flash still isn't working.  It works
> > > > > > > > in opera. Any ideas?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Try with another new profile :
> > > > > > > 	$ firefox -ProfileManager
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Here it stopped working in the new Opera-10.6 and Konqueror, but
> > > > > > still works in FF-3.6.4.  o_O
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm starting a new thread for the Opera problem ...
> > > > >
> > > > > Latest flash does not have a 64 bit version. On amd64 you MUST use
> > > > > nspluginwrapper.
> > > > >
> > > > > Safest is to just remerge the thing and let it convert all your
> > > > > plugins - the command to do that is somewhat arcane and tedious but
> > > > > the ebuild does it all automatically.
> > > >
> > > > Right, I've done all that and also went into the browser control
> > > > panel to ask it to scan new plugins (after I checked that the paths
> > > > were correct) and Opera still does not play flash.  Going to youtube
> > > > just shows the circular video loading graphic and nothing much
> > > > happens - despite the fact that the network gkrellm shows the
> > > > download is taking place ...
> > >
> > > I get the same. Looks like a bug to me. I found this, but nothing
> > > mentioned in it helped me:
> > >
> > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321465
> >
> > This bug refers to clicking in the flash controls and not getting a
> > response (as a workaround I click outside of the embedded video flash
> > area first and then click onto it to move the video cursor, expand it
> > full screen, etc.)  The fix they suggest does not work with the problem
> > I am trying to solve with Opera-10.60 though.
>
> I filed this bug: 326841

The problem seems to be that the new Opera will not follow symlinks to the 
plugin, in particular it will not follow:

/usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> 
/opt/netscape/plugins32/libflashplayer.so

although it reports it as the plugin path in about:plugins.

So, removing the symlink and cp /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so 
to /opt/netscape/plugins32/libflashplayer.so fixes the problem.  Of course, 
the real fix should be with opera which suddenly stopped following the 
symlink.  Hopefully the bug report will be followed upstream.  Until then the 
copied file works for me.
-- 
Regards,
Mick