Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:43:54 -0300 From: Duane Whitty <duane@dwlabs.ca> To: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: flash7/firefox plugin no longer registers Message-ID: <20061016234354.GA20196@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> In-Reply-To: <20061016145200.M24640@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> References: <4532F988.6000708@greenmeadow.ca> <20061016145200.M24640@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:06:26PM +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > > Hello! > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: > >Has anyone else lost their flash7 plugin in firefox on 6-STABLE? > > I use native seamonkey-1.0.5 + linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_6 + > linux-flashplugin-7.0r68, and this "toolchain" worked for simple > flash content under RELENG_6 as of 2006.10.09, and continues to > work under fresh RELENG_6 (2006.10.16). However, the following looks > non-standard (it doesn't match corresponding section from > > /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD6 > > ) in your configuration: > > >Here is my current etc/libmap.conf which I updated after upgrading to the > >most > >recent firefox > > > ># [ALPHA SUPPORT] Flash7 with Mozilla > >[/usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so] > > Are you sure that file location should point at symlink instead of the > real > file? My setup works correctly when I specify _real_ .so path here: > > [/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so] > > and doesn't work when I specify symlink: > > [/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_linux_plugins/libflashplayer.so] > > In the latter case, flash plug-in shows fine under Help -> About Plug-ins, > but fails during Flash content display: > > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library > /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so [Shared object > "libpthread.so.0" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"] > > Generally, it helps _a lot_ to start the browser from xterm's command line > in this situations - you'll see all error and warning messages then. > > Sincerely, Dmitry > -- > Atlantis ISP, System Administrator > e-mail: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua > nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE > _______________________________________________ Thank you Dmitry and everyone, I fixed the file location it doesn't point to a sysmlink which somehow I completely overlooked, thanks. When it still didn't work I removed the absolute path names from the mappings. Everything works great now (at least as well as before :) ) Thanks for the help. Best Regards, Duane Whitty
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