From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 30 19:22:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC39516A41F for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:22:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DF2E43D69 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:22:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 18440 invoked by uid 502); 30 Dec 2005 19:22:11 -0000 Received: from dsl-12-178-97-72.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@12.178.97.72) by 0 with SMTP; 30 Dec 2005 19:22:11 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 12.178.97.72 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl-12-178-97-72.ywave.com Message-ID: <43B588E2.4000600@ywave.com> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:22:10 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051224) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Hill References: <20051229220507.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org> <43B4B46F.30305@ywave.com> <20051230003646.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20051230003646.Y91381@tripel.monochrome.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Mozilla plugins broken after port upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:22:14 -0000 Chris Hill wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Micah wrote: > >> Chris Hill wrote: > > > [snip] > >>> The specific issues are with acroread7, flash and mplayer-plugin. All >>> of these worked as plug-ins before the upgrade, but now none of them do. > > > [snip] > >> Search the list archives for "Flash Plugin in 6.0" and "Flash no >> longer displayed in Firefox". > > > Neither of those search terms yields any results, but you've given me > another direction to look. I searched the archives yet again, this time > on 'linuxpluginwrapper'. Found > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=751336+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20051120.freebsd-questions > > > ...based on which, I did > # ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so > /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ > > This fixed things partially. A visit to > http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/ > shows that "regular" flash works, but not shockwave. > > Still no luck with PDFs or mplayer-plugin. > > Another result from my archive search was > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1310074+1313109+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20051120.freebsd-questions > ...which revealed the existence of the WITH_PLUGINS make knob for > linuxpluginwrapper, so I did > tripel# cd /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper > tripel# make deinstall > tripel# make -DWITH_PLUGINS reinstall > > ...which resulted in no change. > > I'm at a loss regarding the mplayer-plugin stuff. As for Acrobat, I'd > bet it has something to do with the disappearance of the path > /usr/compat/linux/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin, but > I don't know how that came to exist or why it no longer does. > >> It's an issue with the linuxpluginwrapper port, several methods to >> make it work are described in those recent threads. > > > Thank you for the pointer, especially for the speed of your post. > >> HTH, >> Micah > > > It did, a little. Thank you. > > But it's still vexing that all this stuff worked fine before, and that > the upgrade seems to have broken it. I'm also curious why > "about:plugins" shows, for example, mplayer-plugin installed for a wide > variety of MIME-types, but trying to access online videos no longer > starts mplayer-plugin as it did before the upgrade. > > My meta-question remains: Is this documented, and if so, where? > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] The mailman search interface is screwed up, and the FreeBSD search engine and Google haven't indexed recent threads yet. A look through December's archives would've turned these up. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107922.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107098.html HTH, Micah