Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

[Dak Ghatikachalam]

6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1

I have these files in


$ pwd
/usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins
$ ls -lrt
total 2132
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2158864 Oct 27 16:42 libflashplayer.so
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      856 Oct 27 16:42 flashplayer.xpt
drwxr-xr-x  2 500   100        512 Dec  4 19:09 install_flash_player_7_linux
$


I need to try  the Warren's method  to see if that is going to help me,
first of all I need to read man portupgrade to perform the upgrade from 6.1to
6.2 , as i am new into this freebsd world.

Thanks for your input

Dak


On 1/16/07, FreeBSD WickerBill <freebsdwicker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/16/07, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
> >
> > > My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins,
> > >
> > > I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well.
> > >
> > > Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave
> > > plugins
> > >
> > > I went ahead and did everything per the instructions in
> > >
> > > < that procedure is outdated, so I'm not going to repeat the link >
> > >
> > > after doing this the firefox is crashing left and right.
> >
> > Here's my checklist.  This works on 6.2-Release and 6.2-Stable as of
> > 16 Jan 2007 with Firefox 2.0.0.1:
> >
> > Install the dlsym patch:
> >
> > Note: a new version of rtld.c came out in stable on 16 Jan 2007.  If you
> > don't run 6-Stable, fetch the patch file like this:
> >
> > # cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/
> > # fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
> >
> > Here's an updated patch file I made for rtld.c v 1.106.2.4:
> >
> > --- rtld.c.orig Tue Jan 16 06:50:53 2007
> > +++ rtld.c      Tue Jan 16 06:54:15 2007
> > @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@
> >   static void unref_dag(Obj_Entry *);
> >   static void ref_dag(Obj_Entry *);
> >
> > +void *_dlsym(void *, const char *);
> >   void r_debug_state(struct r_debug *, struct link_map *);
> >
> >   /*
> > @@ -182,6 +183,7 @@
> >       (func_ptr_type) &dlclose,
> >       (func_ptr_type) &dlerror,
> >       (func_ptr_type) &dlopen,
> > +    (func_ptr_type) &_dlsym,
> >       (func_ptr_type) &dlsym,
> >       (func_ptr_type) &dladdr,
> >       (func_ptr_type) &dllockinit,
> > @@ -1762,6 +1764,12 @@
> >       trace_loaded_objects(obj);
> >       wlock_release(rtld_bind_lock, lockstate);
> >       exit(0);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void *
> > +_dlsym(void *handle, const char *name)
> > +{
> > +    return dlsym(handle, name);
> >   }
> >
> >   void *
> > --cut here
> >
> > # patch < rtld_dlsym_hack.diff
> > # make
> > # make install
> >
> > Link the library:
> >
> > cd /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
> > ln -sf /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so .
> > ln -sf /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt .
> >
> > In /etc/libmap.conf:
> >
> > # [ALPHA SUPPORT] Flash7 with Mozilla
> > [/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so]
> > libpthread.so.0                 libpthread.so.2
> > libdl.so.2                      pluginwrapper/flash7.so
> > libz.so.1                       libz.so.3
> > libm.so.6                       libm.so.4
> > libc.so.6                       pluginwrapper/flash7.so
> >
> > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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>
> or, look in  /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins/ and make sure the plugin or a
> symlink exists.
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