Flash player in multilib is unstable

Grimn · 2010-09-04 07:07:43

brain0 wrote:

Did you guys read that?
To use the flash player in firefox, you must set
  dom.ipc.plugins.enabled
to true in about:config. It will crash a lot otherwise.
At least for firefox, it helps. As for the rest, I have no idea. Whenever I saw someone having problems so far, it was due to old and broken lib32 packages still being on the system.

I have just installed flashplugin from multilib and now firefox crashes after I open some flash contents. I think it might be because I have no clue how to do this:

To use the flash player in firefox, you must set
  dom.ipc.plugins.enabled
to true in about:config. It will crash a lot otherwise.

Can someone please tell mw how to set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to true in about:config? I tried firefox preferences and found nothing.
Thanks.

C!HO · 2010-09-04 08:19:23

Look into "about:config".

deej · 2010-09-04 11:14:02

wonder wrote:

@Skripka @deej you are doing it wrong by using aur builds for flash. get rid of junk from aur (pacman -Qm) especially nspluginwrapper-flash/debian and get rid of the plugin from ~/.mozilla/whatever the path is.
then enable multilib repo and pacman -Syu flashplugin
nothing more, nothing less

Mmmm... did as suggested and it works OK now. Thanks.

Deej

shaurz · 2010-09-04 16:15:59

Grimn wrote:

Can someone please tell mw how to set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to true in about:config? I tried firefox preferences and found nothing.
Thanks.

Type about:config in to the address bar.

Grimn · 2010-09-04 17:45:29

shaurz wrote:

Grimn wrote:
Can someone please tell mw how to set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to true in about:config? I tried firefox preferences and found nothing.
Thanks.
Type about:config in to the address bar.

Thank you, this howto was helpful

DnF · 2010-09-06 08:07:05

Hi guys,

I had the same problem, maybe my findings can help someone.
After installation of flashplugin from multilib repo, i got warning:

nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib32/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

And there was no plugin directory in my ~/.mozilla/
I tried many reinstalls, then tried to run

nspluginwrapper -v -a -i

as from wiki. And got error

/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXdamage.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

libXdamage was of course installed, but by crawling on forums I have found that I need lib32-libxdamage. Yes, I'm installing 32-lbit library, sure. This was the main problem, after installing this, and running again nspluginwrapper -v -a -i.
Now everything works, hooray!

brain0 · 2010-09-07 09:33:46

DnF wrote:

And got error
/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXdamage.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
libXdamage was of course installed, but by crawling on forums I have found that I need lib32-libxdamage. Yes, I'm installing 32-lbit library, sure. This was the main problem, after installing this, and running again nspluginwrapper -v -a -i.
Now everything works, hooray!

This is again a problem that only happens if you don't -Syu completely. The packages in our repositores have the correct dependencies and work out of the box. Using a mix of old and new packages will lead to lots and lots of errors like yours.

Jodell · 2010-09-07 17:40:43

Using Midori and flash from the repo produces some interesting results.

Upon opening Midori it freezes for fifteen to twenty seconds with this error.

*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After that time this error is produced and the browser and the flash plugin works.

*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/home/thomas/arch/repos/community/nspluginwrapper/trunk/src/nspluginwrapper-1.3.0/src/npw-wrapper.c:3160):invoke_NP_Initialize: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(g_rpc_connection))

I believe the path shown is the path on the packager's machine because nothing like that exist on my machine.

greyhat.goon · 2010-09-09 03:22:21

I'm trying to get flash from the multilib repository going........but no dice so far.
The installation is shown below and I did set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled = true in firefox.
I also tried removing flash and re-installing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[campbell@sherpa ~]$ sudo powerpill -Syu flashplugin
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community-testing is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: gjs: local (20091225-1) is newer than extra (0.6-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): flashplugin-10.1.82.76-4

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   13.76 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                                   [###########################################################] 100%
(1/1) installing flashplugin                                                                        [###########################################################] 100%
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib32/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
To use the flash player in firefox, you must set
  dom.ipc.plugins.enabled
to true in about:config. It will crash a lot otherwise.
[campbell@sherpa ~]$ 

[campbell@sherpa ~]$ sudo pacman -Qm
backintime 0.9.26-4
boxee-source 0.9.14.6992-1
clutter-imcontext 0.1.4-1
codecs-all 20071007-4
computertemp 0.9.6.1-4
dropbox 0.6.480-1
eclipse-epic 0.6.13-2
eel 2.26.0-1
firestarter 1.0.3-8
gnome-cups-manager 0.33-7
google-chrome-beta 6.0.472.33-1
google-earth 5.2.1.1329-1
gtk2-themes-collection 0.2.0-2
lib32-avahi 0.6.25-3.1
lib32-cairo-ubuntu 1.8.4-1
lib32-fontconfig-ubuntu 2.6.0-6
lib32-freetype2-ubuntu 2.3.7-3
lib32-glib 1.2.10-7
lib32-gmp 4.2.2-2
lib32-gtk 1.2.10-8
lib32-libart-lgpl 2.3.21-1
lib32-libtasn1 2.6-1
lib32-libxft-ubuntu 2.1.13-1
lib32-lzo2 2.03-1
lib32-nas 1.9.2-1
lib32-opencdk 0.6.6-1.1
lib32-pciutils 3.1.7-1
lib32-qt3 3.3.8-17.1
libdownload 1.3-3
libgnomedb 1.2.2-6
libjpeg6 6b-9
libnasl 2.2.11-1
libtracker 0.6.95-1
libxxf86misc 1.0.2-1
lightning 0.9-3
mutter 2.29.1-1
nessus-core 2.2.11-1
nessus-libraries 2.2.11-1
nessus-plugins 2.2.11-1
php-gtk 2.0.1-2
picasa 3.0_5744.02-5
powernowd 1.00-1
rkhunter 1.3.6-2
versionpkg 0.7.6-1
virtualbox_bin 3.2.8-1
xf86miscproto 0.9.3-1
[campbell@sherpa ~]$

Last edited by greyhat.goon (2010-09-09 03:23:48)

brain0 · 2010-09-09 07:44:21

greyhat.goon wrote:

nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib32/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

You lack the right libraries to run flashplayer (or they don't work). Either you have out of date or incompatible libraries installed. I suggest running -Syu first.

greyhat.goon wrote:

lib32-avahi 0.6.25-3.1
lib32-cairo-ubuntu 1.8.4-1
lib32-fontconfig-ubuntu 2.6.0-6
lib32-freetype2-ubuntu 2.3.7-3
lib32-glib 1.2.10-7
lib32-gmp 4.2.2-2
lib32-gtk 1.2.10-8
lib32-libart-lgpl 2.3.21-1
lib32-libtasn1 2.6-1
lib32-libxft-ubuntu 2.1.13-1
lib32-lzo2 2.03-1
lib32-nas 1.9.2-1
lib32-opencdk 0.6.6-1.1
lib32-pciutils 3.1.7-1
lib32-qt3 3.3.8-17.1

I'd say lib32-cairo-ubuntu, lib32-fontconfig-ubuntu, lib32-freetype-ubuntu or libxft-ubuntu is not compatible to our lib32-gtk2 build, but it's just a guess. Most of that stuff looks like nobody would ever need it anyway.

artiom · 2010-09-09 18:55:04

With dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to true in about:config works fine in firefox. It works also in chromium, but I have a problem with Epiphany:
When I click the right mouse button on some flash (for exemple from this page http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ ) flash hangs. I need to kill npview process in order to continue browsing.

greyhat.goon · 2010-09-10 03:53:26

Removed all of those ubuntu lib32 files, did a pacman -Syu and re-installed flashplugin. Still no go.

Edit:

Did a re-install of lib32-gtk2 and then a re-install of flashplugin. Now it works..........kind of. Crashes a lot in chromium but works
better in firefox.

Last edited by greyhat.goon (2010-09-10 04:11:49)

Primoz · 2010-09-13 13:45:45

Wow... I thought my flash is acting strange in Konqueror, but it actually works. It just that some videos need more time to load than other.
Also it still sometimes lag and all other things...
But it works, you just have to be patient and wait.

EDIT: Er I think that embedded videos still don't work.

Last edited by Primoz (2010-09-13 13:55:54)

shaurz · 2010-09-16 19:57:35

To anyone still watching this thread... install flashplayer-prerelease from AUR. Adobe have thankfully decided to now support 64-bit on all platforms.

Inxsible · 2010-09-16 20:27:19

do you mean flashplugin-square ??

shaurz · 2010-09-16 20:39:43

The flashplugin-square package has been removed... flashplugin-prerelease installs the "square" version.

Inxsible · 2010-09-16 20:44:02

hmm interesting. I just installed the flashplugin-square yesterday. I guess I will have some updates once I get back home

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