linux-f10-flashplugin

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Ted Faber <faber at isi.edu> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 02:41:39PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote:
>> On 09/29/11 13:57, Norbert Augenstein wrote:
>> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:08:25PM +0400, S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
>> >> 28.09.2011, 21:10, "Conrad J. Sabatier"<conrads at cox.net>:
>> >>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:50:08 -0500
>> >>> "Conrad J. Sabatier"<conrads at cox.net>  wrote:
>> 
>>   [ .. snip .. ]
>> 
>> >>>
>> >>> Actually, now that I think of it, I think the way I did it was this:
>> >>>
>> >>> cd /home/conrads/.mozilla/plugins
>> >>>
>> >>> /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/freebsd/npconfig
>> >>> -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
>> >>>
>> >>> And npwrapper.libflashplayer.so was created
>> >>> under /home/conrads/.mozilla/plugins.
>> >>>
>> >>> Hope this helps.
>> >>
>> >> I've done it. No results.
>> >
>> >      ... same problem here, but the last i did yesterday was a
>> >      'freebsd-update' to 8.2-RELEASEp3
>> >
>> >      after 'freebsd-update rollback' flash is working again.
>> >      can someone look at this?
>> 
>> Another data-point; when it fails, it records ..
>> 
>> (npviewer.bin:62652): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
>> *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side RPC 
>> client connection
>> NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
>> 
>>   .. in .xsession-errors :-(
>
> I see that as well as:
>
> (process:5430): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
> 	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>
> 	(npviewer.bin:5430): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due
> 	to unknown user id (2139)
>
> 	(npviewer.bin:5430): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> 	*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side
> 	RPC client connection
> 	NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
>
>
> I haven't explored the getpwuid_r thing.

After installing the recent uipc_socket security patch, acroread also
fails with "cannot open display: :0.0".  That leads me to think that the
recent uipc_socket security patch broke Unix-domain sockets in the Linux
ABI in some way.  (I'm on 8.2-REL.)

Bengt