macromedia flashplayer won´t work in Mozilla Firefox-2 Fedora Core 6

booridley72 · 11-15-2006, 11:16 AM

I´ve installed the plug-in with the browser pop-up, downloaded it from Adobe, manually installed it. And I´ve uninstalled then reinstalled with all the above methods. I never get error messages but it never seems to take. ICQ chat has been my test page & it has never worked. Occasionally Linuxmail shows me the pop-up & sometimes it seems to work. I´ve used the latest versions of EVERYTHING to no avail. Anyone else had this problem?

mjmwired · 11-15-2006, 09:24 PM

How did you install firefox2?
Where do you have the flash plugin?
What does about

lugins show?

What is the output of:
# rpm -qa | grep firefox
# rpm -q flash-plugin
# ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

FNC · 11-16-2006, 04:13 AM

I have the same problem. Here is my setup on FC6:

rpm -qa | grep fire
firefox-1.5.0.7-7.fc6

I dont have a rpm installed for flash - downloaded some install file from http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq

ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
libtotem-basic-plugin.so
libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt
libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt
libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt
libtotem-complex-plugin.so
libtotem-mully-plugin.so
libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt
libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt

evrenk · 12-07-2006, 02:38 PM

Good Evening,

Have you tried to launch firefox from a console ?

I have the same problem, so I tried to get error messages by launching firefox in the console and surf a website that required flashplayer.

In a console, just type:

Code:

# cd /path/to/firefox
# ./firefox

And here's the message I get:

Code:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/firefox2/plugins/libflashplayer.so
[/opt/firefox2/plugins/libflashplayer.so: can't restore the prot segment after reloc: permission
denied].

I don't get it..,

- When I look at about

lugins, I do not get any result even though the files are in their right place.
- I used the mozilla official executable to install my firefox 2 in /opt/firefox2
- I do not have flash installed as an rpm
- I do have firefox 1.5 installed as an rpm, I want to keep it if it is possible, for CSS/HTML testing.

If someone understands something, I will be pleased to hear about it.
Thank you in advance,

All the Best,
Evren K.

cybertaz · 12-07-2006, 02:45 PM

Are you using the 64 bit version of firefox? [HELP->About Firefox] If so download and install nspluginwrapper. This allow the use of 32 bit plugins(flash) with 64 bit firefox.

http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/proje...pluginwrapper/

evrenk · 12-07-2006, 03:11 PM

Hello,
It may seem odd, but I don't know for sure. I don't think so but... My about:buildconfig doesn't mention it. On the about: page my build identifier is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/2006101022 Firefox/2.0".

All the Best,
Evren K.

evrenk · 12-07-2006, 03:13 PM

Hello,
I don't think so, but I'm not 100% sure. My build identifier looks like this "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/2006101022 Firefox/2.0".

All the Best,
Evren K.

P.S: I'm really sorry for this double post. It's a stupid mistake, I thought my previous message didn't work. Is there a way to delete this post ?

Guignol · 12-07-2006, 04:35 PM

I had the same Problem...Its been resolved..I'll get back to you guy's tomorrow morning since I'm using FC5 at home.YOu need to cp it in your .firefox(plugin),or is it .mozilla.

Mart.

cybertaz · 12-07-2006, 04:44 PM

evrenk - The error your getting is not 32 v 64 bit related. It looks like a file permission thing.

evrenk · 12-07-2006, 10:48 PM

Hello !
Yeeesss ! Thank you very much ! It is indeed a file permission thing but I couldn't fix it until I changed the SELinux politics to "permissive". It is not ideal, but now it works.

Thank you !

All the Best,
Evren K.