A Possible Reason for Problems with Flash Player

[Kam Leo]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:
> After attempting to install the Firefox Flash plugin,
> I kept getting SELinux alerts every time I started Firefox.
> After deleting all the files in the directory
> /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper, I continued to get SELinux alerts.
> The flash plugin attempts to make the stack executable, which
> SELinux does not permit on my system.
>
> The alerts from one invocation of Firefox follow:
>
>  2/home/daf}firefox
> Error: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config not found
>       /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config not found
> FoxyProxy settingsDir = /home/daf/.mozilla/firefox/jde131vm.default
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npwrapp
> er.so [/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npwrapper.so: cannot open shared object
> file: Pe
> rmission denied]
> GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9fc7cf0: NP_GetMIMEDescription
> GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9fc7cf0: NP_GetMIMEDescription return
> GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9fc7cf0: NP_GetValue
> GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9fc7cf0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name.
> GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9fc7cf0: NP_GetValue return
> GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9fc7cf0: NP_GetValue
> GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9fc7cf0: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description.
> GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x9fc7cf0: NP_GetValue return
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashpl
> ayer.so [/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so: cannot enable
> executable stack
>  as shared object requires: Permission denied]
>
> ---------------------------
> Not quite sure what to do with this, other than to ignore it.>

You left out the most important facts regarding your problem:

1. Version and architecture of Fedora. (I'm assuming that you are
using a x64 version.)
2. Whose flash plugin and version?

Have you tried the 64-bit alpha release from Adobe.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html ? Just extract it
and place it into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/, restart Firefox and check
"about:plugins" to see if it installed.