Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:11:56
Message-Id: 49bf44f10901201011i68be98bcpe41c6ab0c8142e3c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once by Grant
1 >>> Flash used to work perfectly, but now it only works once between
2 >>> netscape-flash emerges. When I emerge netscape-flash, open firefox,
3 >>> and visit youtube.com, it works. But if I then close firefox, re-open
4 >>> it, and visit youtube.com, flash doesn't work. If I re-emerge
5 >>> netscape-flash it starts working again. I'm using
6 >>> netscape-flash-10.0.15.3. Any ideas?
7 >>>
8 >>> - Grant
9 >>
10 >> what arch are you running? If am64, try the
11 >> net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.21.1_alpha which is a native 64-bit (and
12 >> you can unmerge nspluginwrapper)
13 >>
14 >> I had the exact same problems when using the 32-bit flash in 64-bit
15 >> pluginwrapper
16 >>
17 >> If you're not using that setup, then ignore this message :)
18 >>
19 >> Paul
20 >
21 > Thanks Paul, I am on amd64 and I think this means no more firefox-bin
22 > which is great. I'm getting this after upgrading netscape-flash and
23 > visiting youtube.com with firefox (no -bin):
24 >
25 > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
26 > /home/marant/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
27 > [/home/marant/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: cannot make segment
28 > writable for relocation: Permission denied]
29 >
30 > Do I need to re-emerge firefox or could this have to do with my
31 > hardened kernel settings?
32 >
33 > - Grant
34
35 Actually it looks like I don't even have mozilla-firefox installed so
36 I must have been launching firefox-bin with 'firefox'.
37
38 - Grant