I was wondering if anyone else had this problem.
I run CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on my workstation at home. Since 5.2 came out with nepluginwrapper bundled into it, none of my plugins work. I thought it was just a problem with the flash plugin, but neither the mplayerplug-in plugins nor the adobe acrobat reader plugin work, either.
I have this problem both with the Seamonkey contributed 64-bit build and my own (otherwise perfectly working) native build of the 2.01a pre-release trunk build (which I have been using since January, with occasional updates, the most recent being about a week ago).
I have not tried going back to the 32-bit release of Seamonkey, although I suppose that's next. I stopped using that when it kept crashing when I tried to save a web page after having visited some unknown threshold level of pages (i.e., it wouldn't do this on the first or second web page, but somewhere down the line, a threshold was crossed and it would crash fairly regularly). In discussions with the Mozilla folks, I concluded that the problem had something to do with running the 32-bit release on my 64-bit OS. Due to some peculiarity in the 1.x Mozilla build process, I was never able to build a 64-bit version of the 1.x releases, but I had no trouble running the L&G not-yet-released revision, with occasional glitches from the bugs that I ran into (and reported).
But, back to the point:
There are two major issues I have with the 5.2 bundled nspluginwrapper:
1) The nspluginwrapper program itself is gone, which makes it a little (lot) harder to manage and troubleshoot the problems.
and, more importantly:
2) None of the 32-bit plugins that are supposed to be wrapped work. Period.
Is this something I should report in bugzilla, at CentOS (and upstream)? I didn't see it in the bugs listed at CentOS.org.
Thanks.
mhr
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:18 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering if anyone else had this problem.
I run CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on my workstation at home. Since 5.2 came out with nepluginwrapper bundled into it, none of my plugins work. I thought it was just a problem with the flash plugin, but neither the mplayerplug-in plugins nor the adobe acrobat reader plugin work, either.
<snip> I am running the 32 bit kernel on my Desktop and I do *NOT* have that problem. Is that limited to the 64 bit kernel or to your box? After I did the huge update to CentOS 5.2, everything continued to work in Firefox 3.0. As I write this, I am listening on Streamaudio.com to KOOL 97.3 (KEAG-FM) in Anchorage, AK which uses mplayer.
Possibly you should install the 32 bit version of Firefox and the Plug Ins, if they are not already installed?
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
<snip> I am running the 32 bit kernel on my Desktop and I do *NOT* have that problem.
Of course not - nspluginwrapper is a 64-bit mozilla plugin that wraps 32-bit plugins so they'll work with a 64-bit browser. :-)
Possibly you should install the 32 bit version of Firefox and the Plug Ins, if they are not already installed?
That's a possibility (except that I really do not like Firefox), I will try the 32-bit version of Seamonkey 1.1.11 and see if the problem that moved me to the 64-bit browser has been cleaned up (and to bitch about it long and loud if it is not! - not here, though... :-).
mhr
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:22 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
<snip> I am running the 32 bit kernel on my Desktop and I do *NOT* have that problem.
Of course not - nspluginwrapper is a 64-bit mozilla plugin that wraps 32-bit plugins so they'll work with a 64-bit browser. :-)
Interesting... nspluginwrapper is also installed on my Fedora 9 system. I thought it was wrapping various flash stuff but that looks like that is a different plugin.
Possibly you should install the 32 bit version of Firefox and the Plug Ins, if they are not already installed?
That's a possibility (except that I really do not like Firefox), I will try the 32-bit version of Seamonkey 1.1.11 and see if the problem that moved me to the 64-bit browser has been cleaned up (and to bitch about it long and loud if it is not! - not here, though... :-).
mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:18 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering if anyone else had this problem.
I run CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on my workstation at home. Since 5.2 came out with nepluginwrapper bundled into it, none of my plugins work. I thought it was just a problem with the flash plugin, but neither the mplayerplug-in plugins nor the adobe acrobat reader plugin work, either.
<snip> I am running the 32 bit kernel on my Desktop and I do *NOT* have that problem. Is that limited to the 64 bit kernel or to your box? After I did the huge update to CentOS 5.2, everything continued to work in Firefox 3.0. As I write this, I am listening on Streamaudio.com to KOOL 97.3 (KEAG-FM) in Anchorage, AK which uses mplayer.
Possibly you should install the 32 bit version of Firefox and the Plug Ins, if they are not already installed?
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS
I think everything on that page is 32 bit and I think I have read in this ML that it is better to use 32 bit for multimedia stuff? Not sure if I remember that correctly
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS
I think everything on that page is 32 bit and I think I have read in this ML that it is better to use 32 bit for multimedia stuff? Not sure if I remember that correctly
Yeah, I was doing that last year, and all was going relatively smoothly until Seamonkey began to crash at odd (and really bad) moments, like when I wanted to save a page that was the confirmation of an order or a bill paid, and it was pretty adamant about doing that when I least expected it.
I've been using the 64-bit home-build of Seamonkey's pre-alpha working sources for the 2.0 release rather successfully, with nspluginwrapper from rpmforge. But when 5.2 came out and it contained Red Hat's latest rev of the nspluginwrapper, none of the plugins worked. I got blank space, or worse, nothing at all, where flash videos were supposed to play, and blank pages for pdfs, and so on. Red Hat did something to nspw that just plain broke it, and as far as I can see, there is no documentation on the new revision as to how it's supposed to fit in or work under the new update.
(sigh)
This is mostly rehash for those who have been around this list for a while.
So far, the 32-bit version of SM works fine.
mhr
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS
I think everything on that page is 32 bit and I think I have read in this ML that it is better to use 32 bit for multimedia stuff? Not sure if I remember that correctly
Yeah, I was doing that last year, and all was going relatively smoothly until Seamonkey began to crash at odd (and really bad) moments, like when I wanted to save a page that was the confirmation of an order or a bill paid, and it was pretty adamant about doing that when I least expected it.
I can readily understand that. I just looked at a page I saved from irs.gov on 30 June which is perfect, but I am using Firefox 3.0 (32 bit). Obviously, you have a reason that you prefer SeaMonkey, but this seems to work very well, with 32 bit Firefox. Possibly use 32 bit Firefox, when you are paying bills or placing an online order or dealing with the IRS?
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Possibly use 32 bit Firefox, when you are paying bills or placing an online order or dealing with the IRS?
Isn't that what the Anonymizer is for?
;^)
mhr
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:41 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Possibly use 32 bit Firefox, when you are paying bills or placing an online order or dealing with the IRS?
Isn't that what the Anonymizer is for?
I was referring to your need to save web pages, when paying bils, online orders, etc. That works perfectly for me with Firefox 3.0.1 (32 bit).
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:33 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:41 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't that what the Anonymizer is for?
I was referring to your need to save web pages, when paying bils, online orders, etc. That works perfectly for me with Firefox 3.0.1 (32 bit).
That was supposed to be a joke.
However, the 32-bit 1.1.11 release just blew up again when I tried to save a page I was editing. Same old bug, again, only now I don't have a working version of the 64-bit browser because the nspluginwrapper is broken.
I will start again from scratch and see if that helps.
mhr
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Mark Hull-Richter mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
<snip> However, the 32-bit 1.1.11 release just blew up again when I tried to save a page I was editing. Same old bug, again, only now I don't have a working version of the 64-bit browser because the nspluginwrapper is broken.
I will start again from scratch and see if that helps.
Good luck with that! Have you tried it on a VMWare Server?
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Good luck with that! Have you tried it on a VMWare Server?
No, why would I do that?
I uninstalled nspluginwrapper and mplayerplug-in reinstalled the 64-bit Seamonkey, then reinstalled all the plugins. Everything is installed and working EXCEPT nppdf.so (the Adobe Read plugin) and Adobe's flash plugin - they're all in the right places, there are nswrappers for 32_64 and 64_64 for both of them in the plugin-wrapper directory, but they neither register nor work in the browser.
I have run mozilla-plugin-config several times, and it lists both of these plugins, but they don't show up in the About Plugins and they don't work.
What next?
mhr
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:57 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Good luck with that! Have you tried it on a VMWare Server?
No, why would I do that?
I uninstalled nspluginwrapper and mplayerplug-in reinstalled the 64-bit Seamonkey, then reinstalled all the plugins. Everything is installed and working EXCEPT nppdf.so (the Adobe Read plugin) and Adobe's flash plugin - they're all in the right places, there are nswrappers for 32_64 and 64_64 for both of them in the plugin-wrapper directory, but they neither register nor work in the browser.
I have run mozilla-plugin-config several times, and it lists both of these plugins, but they don't show up in the About Plugins and they don't work.
What next?
If you have VMWare Server installed, consider trying it under that, on a fresh, clean, installation, to see if it will work properly for you. Possibly the uninstalling and installing has corrupted something you are unaware of, on your bare metal installation.
64-bit flash is here, well alpha stage:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
Here is what I did:
yum remove flash-plugin
mozilla-plugin-config -i -f -v (might not be necessary)
Deleted this one /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
placed libflashplayer.so (64-bit from adobe) in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
Restarted firefox (64)
When to you tube and watched a video
WOOOOOOT!!!
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:57 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Good luck with that! Have you tried it on a VMWare Server?
No, why would I do that?
I uninstalled nspluginwrapper and mplayerplug-in reinstalled the 64-bit Seamonkey, then reinstalled all the plugins. Everything is installed and working EXCEPT nppdf.so (the Adobe Read plugin) and Adobe's flash plugin - they're all in the right places, there are nswrappers for 32_64 and 64_64 for both of them in the plugin-wrapper directory, but they neither register nor work in the browser.
I have run mozilla-plugin-config several times, and it lists both of these plugins, but they don't show up in the About Plugins and they don't work.
What next?
mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 00:54 -0500, Ed Donahue wrote:
<snip>
I don't know if this applies to the specific OP issue, but a recent thread here
http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2008-November/002056.html
touches on similar issues.
I post because I thought it might be generally useful to the populace here.
I run CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on my workstation at home. Since 5.2 came out with nepluginwrapper bundled into it, none of my plugins work. I thought it was just a problem with the flash plugin, but neither the mplayerplug-in plugins nor the adobe acrobat reader plugin work, either.
I have no problems with 32-bit flash and 64-bit mplayer plugins in 64-bit Firefox. Haven't tried adobe acrobat yet.
For flash plugin to work with 64-bit browser you need to install both x86_64 and i386 versions of nspluginwrapper with all the dependencies and run mozilla-plugin-config -i
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Alexander Kirillov nevis2us@infoline.su wrote:
I have no problems with 32-bit flash and 64-bit mplayer plugins in 64-bit Firefox. Haven't tried adobe acrobat yet.
For flash plugin to work with 64-bit browser you need to install both x86_64 and i386 versions of nspluginwrapper with all the dependencies and run mozilla-plugin-config -i
I tried that, and all I wound up with was a clutter of -wrapper directories under /usr/lib/mozilla and /usr/lib64/mozilla.
I installed the 32-bit version and so far, after a little symlink work, I have both the adobe reader plugin nppdf.so and the flash plugin working perfectly. Now all I need are the 32-bit mplayer plugins and I'll be quiet unless/until it starts crashing all the time again.
Next step is to clean up all the 64-bit trash I now have laying around....
mhr
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