Doug,
I am a little confused. I already have
adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
installed on my system because I have the adobe repository enabled. But
I only have the i386 flash-player installed, because SL 5.5 apparently
didn't support the x86_64 player yet and depended on nspluginwrapper. I
have gone to the adobe website and tried the YUM download of:
flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-release.x86_64
but all I get is a copy of the 'adobe-release' rpm. I don't think I
want to install that over the existing YUM version, do I? I have also
downloaded the 'tar.gz' version of the plugin, but I hesitate to install
it because of possible conflicts with the i386 plugin. I would
appreciate any advice.
T. Rosmond
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 10:11 -0600, Doug Johnson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> The following should work:
>
> Remove all traces of nspluginwrapper from your 64 bit machine(s). Then
> go to the Adobe website, and download and then install:
>
> adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
>
> After that, you can install Flash x64 from Adobe.
>
> Hope this helps,
> doug
>
> >
> > Bonnie,
> >
> > I stand corrected. I just tried a website that asked for the
> > flash-plugin (x86_64). That creates a dilemma; SL 5.5 doesn't have the
> > x86_64 flash-plugin, but depends on nspluginwrapper for 64-bit support.
> > I guess one recourse is to try do downgrade firefox to the previous
> > version that worked. Any other suggestions?
> >
> > T. Rosmond
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 08:46 -0500, Bonnie King wrote:
> > > Thanks Tom,
> > >
> > > I've tested and I'm able to reproduce the crash on x86_64 with:
> > >
> > > * firefox.x86_64 0:10.0.10-1.el5_8
> > > * flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-release.i386 or
> > > flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-release.x86_64,
> > > * nspluginwrapper installed
> > >
> > > No segfault with flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-release.x86_64 without
> > > nspluginwrapper, or with previous Firefox (10.0.8).
> > >
> > > On 11/01/2012 11:14 AM, Tom Rosmond wrote:
> > > > Thanks for the advice. Removing 'nspluginwrapper' looks like it fixed
> > > > the problem. The seqfaults seemed to be unique to the Google website,
> > > > and now Google is working. I assume SL installs the proper plugins as
> > > > part of Yum updates, so hopefully I have everything I need.
> > > >
> > > > T. Rosmond
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 08:52 -0500, Bonnie King wrote:
> > > >> Hello,
> > > >>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> *** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (<unknown
> > > >>> variable>) in NPN_GetValue()
> > > >>>
> > > >>> [1] Segmentation fault firefox
> > > >>> [2007]cedar /home/rosmond:
> > > >>
> > > >> I don't know what's causing the segfault (some plugin seems likely), but
> > > >> the NSPlugin Viewer WARNING is seen with nspluginwrapper, which enables
> > > >> you to use the 32-bit Flash plugin on 64-bit systems (necessary before
> > > >> there was a 64-bit plugin).
> > > >>
> > > >> If you use the flash plugin for your architecture and uninstall
> > > >> nspluginwrapper, you won't see the warning. I'm not sure it's related
> > > >> to your crash, since I see the message anywhere nspluginwrapper is
> > > >> installed and it seems to be harmless.
> > > >>
> > > >> In any case, there should be no need for nspluginwrapper if you have the
> > > >> appropriate flash plugin installed.
> > > >>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> ********************************************************
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I'm not a browser expert, so would appreciate any advice to correct the
> > > >>> problem. I could try to revert to the previous version, but would
> > > >>> prefer not to.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> T. Rosmond
> > > >>
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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