613870 - Load Plugin fails for flash player 10 due to access of wrong solaris library location

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Nigel Badnell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Firefox/3.6.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Firefox/3.6.12

Flashplayer 10 requires newer libs than my /usr/lib/mps contains
The firefox solaris_x86 distribution contains the needed libraries
but they are not accessed by firefox-bin Load Plugin 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Flash Player 10 in usual firefox/plugins dir.
2. Restart firefox

Actual Results:  
nabha> firefox &
[3] 1730
nabha> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/lo
cal/firefox-3.6.12/plugins/libflashplayer.so [ld.so.1: firefox
-bin: fatal: libssl3.so: open failed: No such file or director
y]


Expected Results:  
flash player 10 should load

firefox-bin LoadPlugin looks in /usr/lib/mps, which has out-of-date libraries for flash player 10, i.e. it ignores LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc

libflashplayer.so does respect LD_LIBRARY_PATH

nabha> ldd libflash*
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
        librt.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/librt.so.1
        libpthread.so.1 =>       /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
        libX11.so.4 =>   /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.4
        libXext.so.0 =>  /usr/openwin/lib/libXext.so.0
        libXt.so.4 =>    /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
        libfreetype.so.6 =>      /usr/sfw/lib/libfreetype.so.6
        libfontconfig.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libCrun.so.1 =>  /usr/lib/libCrun.so.1
        libCstd.so.1 =>  /usr/lib/libCstd.so.1
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 =>   /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 =>   /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
        libatk-1.0.so.0 =>       /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 =>        /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
        libm.so.2 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.2
        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 =>  /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0
        libpangox-1.0.so.0 =>    /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0
        libpango-1.0.so.0 =>     /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 =>   /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 =>   /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
        libglib-2.0.so.0 =>      /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
        libssl3.so =>    /opt/local/firefox/libssl3.so
        libnss3.so =>    /opt/local/firefox/libnss3.so
        libnspr4.so =>   /opt/local/firefox/libnspr4.so
        libsmime3.so =>  /opt/local/firefox/libsmime3.so
        libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
        libmd5.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libmd5.so.1
        libscf.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libscf.so.1
        libaio.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libaio.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
        libSM.so.6 =>    /usr/openwin/lib/libSM.so.6
        libICE.so.6 =>   /usr/openwin/lib/libICE.so.6
        libz.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libz.so.1
        libexpat.so.0 =>         /usr/sfw/lib/libexpat.so.0
        libXft.so.2 =>   /usr/openwin/lib/libXft.so.2
        libXrender.so.1 =>       /usr/sfw/lib/libXrender.so.1
        libmlib.so.2 =>  /usr/lib/libmlib.so.2
        libXrandr.so.2 =>        /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.so.2
        libXi.so.5 =>    /usr/openwin/lib/libXi.so.5
        libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 =>  /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
        libnssutil3.so =>        /opt/local/firefox/libnssutil3.so
        libplc4.so =>    /opt/local/firefox/libplc4.so
        libthread.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
        libplds4.so =>   /opt/local/firefox/libplds4.so
        libdoor.so.1 =>  /usr/lib/libdoor.so.1
        libuutil.so.1 =>         /usr/lib/libuutil.so.1
        /usr/lib/libmlib/libmlib_sse2.so.2

If I copy libssl3.so plus dependencies into /usr/lib/mps (dangerous) then 
flash player 10 loads fine. Not a workaround since it screws the desktop.

Workaround would be to update Solaris OS then latest libs will be in the place it looks.

Comment 1

[Ginn Chen]

The contrib build of Firefox 3.x on Solaris 10 will ignore user's setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Because it uses another set of gnome libraries, it will not work if user sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib or somewhere else.

If you want to take the risk, you can change the code in run-mozilla.sh.
(Search LD_LIBRARY_PATH from end of the file.)

Yes, the right fix should be to install Solaris patches to update NSS libraries in /usr/lib/mps.

This is not a bug of Firefox plugin module.

Comment 2

[Nigel Badnell]

To avoid an OS upgrade:
In run-mozilla.sh, add ${NEW_PATH} to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${NEW_PATH}/depend/lib
to give
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${NEW_PATH}/depend/lib:${NEW_PATH}
This seems the minimal necessary extension of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
for Flash 10.1 r102 to work fine (apparently).