[K12OSN] firefox segfaults on centos5

[Peter Hartmann]

> Did the script that is mentioned in the postings here fix your FF/flash
> problem? I


Yes is did.   But I'm sure I'll need to run it again.  But to be
honest I'm not _exactly_ sure what it's doing  (Buyer beware Jim, but
I hope it helps if you run it. ).     I forgot to mention that until I
ran the script it didn't matter which version of flash I ran.


> Also I believe I understand you right that this ONLY happens when
> logging into an gmail account,and no other flash sights?


I can't really say. Now that I ran the script it doesn't happen, I'll
have to wait until it happens again to answer.


> One thing that puzzles me is why when you do the ' about:plugins' in FF
> you are not seeing a listed flash plugin available.


Not sure where you're coming from, did you look at my pdf?  It's this
first one listed.

Shockwave Flash
   File name: libflashplayer.so
   Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12



> your /usr/lib/FF3.0.4/plugins

This doesn't exist.   I know you are abbreviating.   There is not a
plugins directory but there is a searchplugins  but this has xml files
and not actual plugins.  Granted, I am still on 3.0.1 so I'll update
now.   /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so is a symlink to
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so.

Thanks,
Peter

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Barry R Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Did the script that is mentioned in the postings here fix your FF/flash
> problem? I didn't quite understand? There may be something to the repo
> install that causes this. All the time I've always just used the same
> rpm flash plugin and have never experienced this on several Centos5
> 32-bit install through FF v 3.04.
> Also I believe I understand you right that this ONLY happens when
> logging into an gmail account,and no other flash sights?
> One thing that puzzles me is why when you do the ' about:plugins' in FF
> you are not seeing a listed flash plugin available. I believe you should
> be seeing something like the following: (This is copied from FF-3.0.4)
> and have looked this way since FF-1.5.0. All of our servers show exactly
> the below.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Shockwave Flash
>        File name: libflashplayer.so
>        Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31
>    MIME Type
>   Description
>     Suffixes
>     Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash
> Shockwave Flash
> swf
> Yes
> application/futuresplash
> FutureSplash
> Player
> spl
> Yes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Why don't you compare your  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and
> your /usr/lib/FF3.0.4/plugins dir and see if they look identical?
>
> Let us know what you find out.
>
> Take Care,
> Barry Cisna
>
>
>
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