Bug 331459 – www-plugin/adobe-flash should depend on nspluginwrapper for amd64 multilib

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Tim Bowers 2010-08-06 19:26:23 UTC]

The adobe-flash plugin requires nspluginwrapper when multilib is enabled, but it isn't set as a dep when emerged.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge adobe-flash on amd64
2. start firefox to find it doesn't work


Actual Results:  
Flash doesn't work

Expected Results:  
Flash should work

There is a bug open for an issue with nspluginwrapper for adobe-flash but appears to be resolved, eitherway without nspluginwrapper the adobe-flash _will not work_


tim@MushaV2 ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4600+-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:45:02 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p37
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64-sse3 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news nodoc noinfo parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/ http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/ rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.virginmedia.com/sites/gentoo http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en_GB en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 avi berkdb bzip2 cairo cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri embedded fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 jpeg mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python qt3support readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode xorg xulrunner 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 authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) 2010-08-11 12:13:08 UTC]

As I mention in the elog output when you install 10.1 on an amd64 system:

   ...
   Furthermore, there are stability problems when running 10.1 in a
   64-bit browser with nspluginwrapper.  The current recommended
   configuration is to use a 32-bit browser such as
   www-client/firefox-bin:
     http://bugs.gentoo.org/324365

I am indeed toying with the idea of just saying "okay, everyone knows flash sucks but it sucks slightly less than the alternatives, so I'll just depend on nspluginwrapper anyway", but I have not yet been swayed.

But I have duly noted your vote implicit in filing this bug is duly noted.  Thank you, I really do appreciate the feedback!

Keep trying to convince me it's a good idea to install an unstable configuration by default, and I may yet do it :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 324365 ***

[Comment 2 Tim Bowers 2010-08-11 12:23:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> As I mention in the elog output when you install 10.1 on an amd64 system:
> 
>    ...
>    Furthermore, there are stability problems when running 10.1 in a
>    64-bit browser with nspluginwrapper.  The current recommended
>    configuration is to use a 32-bit browser such as
>    www-client/firefox-bin:
>      http://bugs.gentoo.org/324365
> 
> I am indeed toying with the idea of just saying "okay, everyone knows flash
> sucks but it sucks slightly less than the alternatives, so I'll just depend on
> nspluginwrapper anyway", but I have not yet been swayed.
> 
> But I have duly noted your vote implicit in filing this bug is duly noted. 
> Thank you, I really do appreciate the feedback!
> 
> Keep trying to convince me it's a good idea to install an unstable
> configuration by default, and I may yet do it :)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 324365 ***
> 

Hi Jim,


I just feel it should be clearer that IF you want to enable it, you NEED this package. Thats the bit I missed, and when asking in #gentoo they concidered it to be a bug, hense my filing it :)

[Comment 3 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) 2010-08-12 11:52:05 UTC]

Ah, now I'm starting to understand.  I'll update the elog message a bit to try to clarify it.  Thanks again for the report.

[Comment 4 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) 2010-08-12 12:41:39 UTC]

... And as I was about to do so I had a change of heart and decided I'd just bring back nspluginwrapper as a (conditional) dependency... So take a look at adobe-flash-10.1.82.76-r1 and see if it does what you want (and is more clear if you don't have nspluginwrapper installed yet)