Bug 634082 – www-client/firefox-56.0 plug-ins do not work

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[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) 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 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 4 George L. Emigh 2017-11-14 23:54:11 UTC]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0/releasenotes/

[Comment 5 Jonas Stein 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) 2018-07-16 13:58:30 UTC]

Agreed.  Any issues with flash going forward should be a new bug.