Case of the disappearing flash-plugin symlink

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Oct 21 04:27:53 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 23:24 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> It seems like every boot/reboot, the flash-plugin symlink created by
> the post-install script of the flash-plugin RPM gets deleted. This of
> course leads to flash not working in Firefox. The laziest fix is to
> `yum -y reinstall flash-plugin`.
> 
> Any ideas on what could be causing this? I know for sure that SELinux
> is enabled on this machine, but I have no reason yet to suspect it.
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the problem with Flash, FF and Fedora 9 seems to be the automatic launch
at startup.

If it doesn't 'restore' and startup automatically, then flash will work
without issue.

Craig




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