88481 - Plugins don't work in FreeBSD

Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P2)

Description

[Antonio M. D'souza]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386; en-US; rv:0.9.1)
Gecko/20010624
BuildID:    0000000000

The effects seem to be very similiar to bug 80459 but the underlying cause must
be different because the problem pinpointed as the reason for that bug does not
exist on my system.
Unfortunately, there is no debug output (at least not in the build I compiled)
so I have no idea what the problem is.
strace wasn't too helpful either :-(

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Moz 0.9.1 from the FreeBSD 4.3-stable ports collection.
2.Try to install either the Flash or Java plugin.
3.Goto about:plugins

Actual Results:  Only the default plugins showed up.

Expected Results:  The Flash and Java plugins should have been listed as well.

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69167 ***

Comment 2

[Antonio M. D'souza]

This is _not_ a dupe!
The effects are very similiar but the underlying conditions are very different.
I was specifically asked to file this seperately.

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Ok my bad reopening

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW.

Comment 5

[Peter Lubczynski]

I think this is fixed by now, but over to Jim for a look.....

Comment 6

[Burhan Nazir]

Testing with the Linux build of Mozilla-0.9.4 under FreeBSD-4.3, the Java plugin
seems to work with no problems.  However the Flash plugin (using the Linux
binary) causes the browser to crash upon loading a flash page.

For example, loading up http://www.macromedia.com will present the flash page. 
But if you attempt to click on a link within flash, the browser will always crash.

Any news on when this will get fixed?

Comment 7

[Antonio M. D'souza]

When starting Moz 0.9.4, I get the following among my startup messages:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/./plugins/libflashplayer.so
[/usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/./plugins/libflashplayer.so: Undefined symbol "stderr"]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/./plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class
[/usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/./plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: invalid file format]

Comment 8

[thebeastwitheyesthatstared]

still happening? (bug cleaning)

Comment 9

[Antonio M. D'souza]

Well, since this problem was ignored for so long, I gave up on it & switched to
Linux several months ago! Perhaps when FreeBSD 5.0 is released I will try it
again... 
Of course, closing bugs by ignoring them until the bug-filers give up in disgust
seems like a strange way to get them closed...

Comment 10

[HARUNAGA Hirotoshi]

From long time ago, Flash and Java plugins work on FreeBSD native
Mozilla.
ex. Flash 5.0 r51, Java Plug-in 1.3.1-p7 and other plugins of FreeBSD
4.7 ports collection.
And 1.3a/FreeBSD 4.7 doesn't crash on http://www.macromedia.com.

Comment 11

[Peter Lubczynski]

marking WFM based on last comment

Comment 12

[Antonio M. D'souza]

Looks like it works for other so closing.