331753 - Flash is not installed properly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Bruce Brackbill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text

Installing flash using the builtin "install missing plugins", everthing appears to download ok and the libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt are installed in ~/.mozilla/plugins and the install.log reports success, but firefox does not recognize the installation.

Also about:plugins shows "No plug-ins are installed" and the pluginreg.dat file has only the following in it:

Generated File. Do not edit.

[HEADER]
Version:0.08:$

[PLUGINS]


I don't know if this bug is releated to bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292373 but it is the only other bug that i could find with "No plug-ins are installed" in the comments.

PS: where did the "plugin browser" go from firefox preferences?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use "install missing plugins" to install flash plugin
2. restart firefox
3. no flash plugin enabled

Actual Results:  
no flash plugin installed


Expected Results:  
flash plugin should be enabled/installed

Comment 1

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

If you run Firefox from the console, do you get any messages?

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

I can confirm this, PFS seems to succeed and all but no flash.

cc: jst.

Note that I see this on ff 1.0.x as well, so perhaps a new xpi is being sent over from macromedia that doesn't work?

I'll debug this monday.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

Can you clear you cache and try again?

Using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060314 Firefox/1.5.0.2 it started working again today.

Comment 4

[Bruce Brackbill]

re: comment #1 Starting from the command line shows no errors

re: comment #2 Clearing the cache does not help

Tryng to debug this I removed the flash plugins from the ./mozilla/plugins directory and removed pluginreg.dat and reinstalled flash.  I did not help at all and now for some reason the generated file pluginreg.dat is not being created.

Doron your on 1.5.0.2 and i'm on 1.5.0.1 ( the one that comes with FC5 ).

Before I reported this bug, i asked a couple of people on #fedora who also ran FC5 to test it also, they all had the same problem.  Also installing flash worked fine on FC4 with firefox 1.07.

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

Can you get the official 1.5.0.1 at http://www.mozilla.com/ and see if that works?  It is a tar.gz, so can be installed and easily removed.

Comment 6

[Bruce Brackbill]

well i installed the official firefox and runing it produced the following error:

"LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library" /home/bruce/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/home/bruce/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied]

After a bit of googling I found that it is probably a selinux problem.  I temporarily disabled selinux and flash worked.  So i guess this is a fedora bug. Maybe i'll file one with them.

The tarball installation also looked at my .mozilla directory and installed the flash plugins there, instead of the tarball firefox plugin directory. weird.  I would be nice if the tarball installation was completely self contained... maybe if i had removed .mozilla it would have been.

On a side note, the official mozilla build requiresd me to install libstdc++.so.5 (redhat compat-libstdc++33). Maybe libstdc could be included in the official mozilla tarball. 

Thanks

Comment 7

[Bruce Brackbill]

Flash is now working with selinux ON.

When i toggled between turning selinux off and on, it forced a relable.  So i guess that somehow fixed the problem.

Now i have to install Flashblock. I hate flash ;-)

Comment 8

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

cc: caillon since it was a fedora thing