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Bug 239163 - www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.3 - netscape-flash-9.0.124.0 does not work
Summary: www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.3 - netscape-flash-9.0.124.0 does not work
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2008-09-30 16:07 UTC by Beetle B.
Modified: 2008-10-28 13:12 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Beetle B. 2008-09-30 16:07:46 UTC
It was working fine with firefox-3.0-r1, but that browser was crashing a lot for me. So I tried upgrading to 3.0.3 (all are source based, BTW).

Now nothing that needs Flash shows up. No errors. about:plugins still shows it.

Tried re-installing Flash but it made no difference. Works on Seamonkey-bin as it always did. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Upgrade to 3.0.3
2.Go to page with Flash


Actual Results:  
Eternal wait.

Expected Results:  
See Flash

Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:45:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer nostrip parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en ar"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/roslin /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects /usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/portage/local/layman/interactive-fiction /usr/portage/local/layman/other"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="7zip X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 apm asf avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bittorrent blas bluetooth branding browserplugin bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cvs dbus dga directfb divx4linux doc dri dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode exif fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp glitz gnuplot gnutella gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk guile hal hbci hdri i8x0 iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg jpeg2k justify kde kerberos lame lapack latex lcms ldap leim libcaca libnotify libsamplerate live loop-aes lyx mad maildir matroska mbox md5sum midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mng mozilla mp2 mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap musepack mysql ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin oav ofx ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl openmp oscar oss pam pcre pda pdf pdflib perl pgp php plotutils png pnm pnp ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime radio rar readline real reflection rss rtsp samba sasl sdl session shout sox speex spell spl srt sse ssl startup-notification stream subtitles subversion svg svga sysfs tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff tivo transparency truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd vesa videos vidix vorbis wavpack win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ar" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 Beetle B. 2008-09-30 22:28:12 UTC
Hmm... Works on some pages, not on others. 

Youtube actually is working.

The following link doesn't:

http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption

(there's an embedded Google video there)

Google video directly works. 
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-01 02:10:40 UTC
I have no idea whether this is new information or a known problem... Feel free to reassign or CC to lack@g.o if need be.
Comment 3 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-09 14:32:45 UTC
Please try the latest ~arch net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915 and let me know how that works for you.
Comment 4 Beetle B. 2008-10-09 15:11:31 UTC
No luck. Furthermore, the reason I don't use the latest Flash is that many sites don't recognize it - saying I need to install it (e.g. The Daily Show's Web site).

Rumor has it the reason is that 10 precedes 9 in lexicographic order, so those sites think I have an older Flash.
Comment 5 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-10 13:57:46 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> No luck. Furthermore, the reason I don't use the latest Flash is that many
> sites don't recognize it - saying I need to install it (e.g. The Daily Show's
> Web site).
> 
> Rumor has it the reason is that 10 precedes 9 in lexicographic order, so those
> sites think I have an older Flash.

Typical :)  Maybe when adobe releases version 10 for real they should call it version "a".

The bad news is that there really isn't a lot I can do about the flash plugin - It's closed source, so it either works or it doesn't.  :(
Comment 6 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-17 14:07:30 UTC
Well, the actual release of 10 is out, and for what it's worth, 9 will soon be going away due to security concerns (#239543).  I'm very sorry to say that if the latest flash-10 in the tree doesn't work for you there's really not a lot I can do for you.

Please try the latest v10 and cross your fingers.
Comment 7 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-28 13:12:41 UTC
I have masked version 9.  If version 10 doesn't work, there's not a lot I can do, sadly.