Adobe Flash no longer works under chrome and firefox

[firewired]

Hi,
I am unable to load flash videos in neither google-chrome nor firefox. The problem started shortly after upgrading from f15 to f16. Running Fedora 16 32bit, 3.2.7-1 kernel, nvidia kmod 290.10-1.

from Firefox about:plugins :

Shockwave Flash

File: nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
Version: Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102

chrome:plugins

Flash (2 files) - Version: 11.1 r102
Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102
Location: /opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so
Type: NPAPI

Name: Shockwave Flash
Version: 11.1 r102
Location: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

(neither works)

running firefox and loading any youtube vid:

*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_SetWindow() wait for reply: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x9de2f630 is no longer valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x9de2f630 is no longer valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x9de2f630 is no longer valid!
....
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2478):invoke_NPP_NewStream: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x9de2f630 is no longer valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x9de2f630 is no longer valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x9de2f630 is no longer valid!
...

I am new to linux and have no clue how to proceed so any help would be much appreciated.

[jpollard]

How did you install flash?

None of the locations you show are where it should be.

Mine is /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so (and yes, I'm running a 64 bit system). I would think yours should be /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so.

forgot to say: I installed via the autoplus utility for codecs and other nice-to-have things.

[PabloTwo]

Why are you using nspluginwrapper? You don't need that to run a 32 bit plugin for a 32 bit app in a 32 bit OS.

Whatever you did to install the /opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so plugin, undo it. You have two competing flashplayer plugins in google-chrome.

Location: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so <== this is the correct location. /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so is a symlink to the real binary reported.

[firewired]

Originally Posted by jpollard

How did you install flash?

None of the locations you show are where it should be.

Mine is /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so (and yes, I'm running a 64 bit system). I would think yours should be /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so.

forgot to say: I installed via the autoplus utility for codecs and other nice-to-have things.

I used the adobe repository:

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe...0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

Why are you using ndiswrapper? You don't need that to run a 32 bit plugin for a 32 bit app in a 32 bit OS.

Whatever you did to install the /opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so plugin, undo it. You have two competing flashplayer plugins in google-chrome.

Location: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so <== this is the correct location. /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so is a symlink to the real binary reported.

I never installed the extra flush plugin in chrome. It must have been there by default. Disabling either one of the two doesn't help. Removing the chrome one gives upon loading a page with flash:

google-chrome
[32154:32154:46125136561:ERROR:x11_util.cc(951)] X Error detected: serial 3971, error_code 10 (BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)), request_code 142, minor_code 1 (X_ShmAttach)
[32154:32154:46125141654:ERROR:x11_util.cc(951)] X Error detected: serial 3972, error_code 159 (BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)), request_code 142, minor_code 3 (X_ShmPutImage)
[32154:32154:46125143925:ERROR:x11_util.cc(951)] X Error detected: serial 3986, error_code 159 (BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)), request_code 142, minor_code 2 (X_ShmDetach)

As to the nspluginwrapper I don't know why it is there. I just followed instructions online, having no idea what I was doing. It did work without problems for months though. Also I tried reversing the process some time ago and just installing the flash-plugin package and it broke flush in both browsers as well (reinstalliing the nspluginwrapper then re-enabled flash playback).

[firewired]

So I am assuming nobody has ever encountered a problem like that (Flash spontaneously stopping to work)? Can I at least get some guesses as to what might resolve this problem? I tried reinstalling flash and both browsers without any effect. If this was windows I would reinstall the system now but on linux I am lost.

[dd_wizard]

Check out Comment 44 onward in this thread.

dd_wizard

[firewired]

Quite frankly I don't see how this is relevant. In my case the version of adobe plugin downloaded by yum update and by chrome auto-update functionality was exactly the same. Also I tried all combinations of disabling/removing either plugin and it didn't help in the slightest. Anyway I don't understand why everyone is obsessing about chrome when the problem occurs in both browsers.

I tried removing adobe flash and installing gnash-plugin but I doesn't seem to work for me. The fedora project page has a flash installation guide which recommends installing nspluginwrapper to run adobe flash in both 32-bit and 64-bit browsers. There is also this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash#...e.2Fpreupgrade but it seems to be only relevant where updating 64-bit system (at least I don't have the plugins-wrapped directory anywhere).

Any chance rolling back to a previous graphic driver might help? I understand nobody here is very keen on helping to troubleshot issue with a proprietary plugin crashing under a proprietary driver but cmon - help a noob out.

[dd_wizard]

I installed 64 bit flash from adobe, and it's been working fine. I did do a clean install of F16, but I did yum updates for F12 > F13 > F14 > F15 and never broke flash before. You might try erasing nspluginwrapper and see if that helps.

dd_wizard

[firewired]

I tried before, when flash was still working for me, because my computer was struggling with high-definition playback under the open nvidia driver. Never got the adobe plugin to run standalone. Certainly doesn't work now. Is it normal that gnash doesn't work either? Under firefox I just get an empty placeholder where the movie should be, under konqueror:

konqueror(6051) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry mime in "/usr/share/kde4/apps/klash/pluginsinfo" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
Could not load movie '/tmp/kde-rkg/konquerorAF6051.swf'
Error: Could not load movie!

This situation is ridiculously annoying because without flash loading I cannot also download the flv files to disk and watch in a standalone player. I am running a second laptop right now with windows booted just for watching youtube vids and screencasts online...