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Bug 634082 - www-client/firefox-56.0 plug-ins do not work
Summary: www-client/firefox-56.0 plug-ins do not work
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2017-10-12 09:47 UTC by rjgleits
Modified: 2018-07-16 13:58 UTC (History)
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Description rjgleits 2017-10-12 09:47:37 UTC 
plug-ins such as adobe-flash don't work. The following error is thrown when navigating to sites that have flash content:

/usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so: undefined symbol:
gdk_screen_get_monitor_workarea
[Parent 11319] WARNING: pipe error (112): Connection reset by peer: file
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-56.0/work/firefox-56.0/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc,
line 353

This bug was reported in Fedora under the following Fedora bug number:

Bug 1497932 - Plug-Ins for example flash fails because of unresolved symbols.

The resolution was a patch to firefox, contained in 56.0.4.

Best Wishes,

Bob Gleitsmann
Comment 1 rjgleits 2017-10-13 00:54:51 UTC 
I verified that the patch included in the fedora bug report solves the problem
Comment 2 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-10-26 14:01:12 UTC 
Is this bug regarding www-client/firefox-56.0 or www-client/firefox-bin-56.0 ?
Or both?
Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2017-10-26 18:49:20 UTC 
(In reply to rjgleits from comment #1)
> I verified that the patch included in the fedora bug report solves the
> problem

We are just a week or so away from firefox57 release, it has been fixed there already. I will leave this open but we will not roll a new patchset or include the patch in gentoo's firefox-56.0 build.
Comment 5 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2018-07-15 20:32:51 UTC 
The problematic version www-client/firefox-56.* is no longer in the tree.
I suggest to close here.
Comment 6 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-07-16 13:58:30 UTC 
Agreed.  Any issues with flash going forward should be a new bug.