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lama

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Registered: 2008-09-28

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[solved] Flash doesn't work

Hello there,

I have got a problem with my flashplugin for Firefox 3. I know this topic has already been widely discussed, but none of the notes in the wiki or on the forums (talking about those I found of course ) did improve the situation.

chmod 755 /usr/lib/mozilla/ and the same for the plugins folder didn't help. about:plugins states that there actually is no plugin installed. As shown here, this is not true. How can I convince Firefox of the opposite?

[lama@zen ~]$ ls -lR /usr/lib/mozilla/
/usr/lib/mozilla/:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 14:01 plugins

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:
total 9512
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8115888 Apr 10 17:50 libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    6099 Jul 18 22:47 librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  310354 Jun 29 14:13 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1067 Jun 29 14:13 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  310546 Jun 29 14:13 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1067 Jun 29 14:13 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  310610 Jun 29 14:13 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1067 Jun 29 14:13 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  310930 Jun 29 14:13 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1067 Jun 29 14:13 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  312402 Jun 29 14:13 mplayerplug-in.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1067 Jun 29 14:13 mplayerplug-in.xpt

Best regards,
lama

Last edited by lama (2008-09-29 11:33:52)

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obsrv

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Registered: 2005-02-08

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

I have the same problem. Running Arch64?

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lama

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Registered: 2008-09-28

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

No, i686 32-Bit, system is up to date.

I fixed some other issues I had with my system in the meantime, but I still have no clue why flash is not working.

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lama

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

I just tried to fix the problem by installing the ttf-ms-fonts-package. The idea was to prevent flash from not-working due to visual-erros, but since the plugin is not even recognized by FF, it was no use of course.

It seems somewhat strange to me that there are only two machines where it doesn't work o.0

As said, system is up to date, installed yesterday. Could it be a kernel issue/dependency? Flash used to work on other GNU/Linux-distros and NT-based systems.

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wonder

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

what permission have /usr/lib/mozilla ? should be 755

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lama

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

what permission have /usr/lib/mozilla ? should be 755

It is, wrote it in my first post

EDIT: Just checked about:plugins again. Flash is now listed there. I did not change anything o.0

Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash     Shockwave Flash     swf     Yes
application/futuresplash     FutureSplash Player     spl     Yes

I don't believe flash depends on a reboot, does ist? Just tested some flash-sites, works well.

Well, the problem is solved, but I don't really know why it didn't work in the first place. I wish I could help anybody with the same problem, but I do not know why it works now. I did not run any command besides scripting a bit with wxPython (which has absolutely nothing to do with flash). Well, I guess I should just smile and be happy.

Thanks, anyone

Last edited by lama (2008-09-29 11:33:38)

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wonder

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

btw in first post you pasted permission for files and folders within /usr/lib/mozilla not permission for /usr/lib/mozilla
but i'm glade that is solved

Last edited by wonder (2008-09-29 11:36:50)

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lama

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

btw in first post you pasted permission for files and folders within /usr/lib/mozilla not permission for /usr/lib/mozilla
but i'm glade that is solved

Oops you're right
Anyways I did the chmod before I posted here. Strange...

Well I still love Arch

Have a nice day
lama

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atw

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Registered: 2007-06-11

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

I have installed Arch yesterday and I have same problem, right permissions and no firefox plugins

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 29 00:43 mozilla

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 29 00:43 extensions

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 29 16:53 plugins

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

make a link to the flashplugin in .mozilla

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wonder

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

@atw did you relogin after installing firefox ? also tell us if you use i686 or x86_64

Last edited by wonder (2008-09-29 18:17:03)

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atw

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Re: [solved] Flash doesn't work

Yes, I made several reboots. I use i686.

I've made symlink to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins in ~/.mozilla and it works.

ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ~/.mozilla/plugins

Thanks for help.

Last edited by atw (2008-09-30 21:33:46)