On my centos 5.7 system, using Firefox 10.1, suddenly flash videos have stopped working, like, today. they worked yesterday. Now all I get is an error message that the flash plugin has crashed, reload page and try again.
strangely, my centos-6 machine using the same firefox and the same flash plugin works fine.
Clues?
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:36:14 -0500 fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On my centos 5.7 system, using Firefox 10.1, suddenly flash videos have stopped working, like, today. they worked yesterday. Now all I get is an error message that the flash plugin has crashed, reload page and try again.
strangely, my centos-6 machine using the same firefox and the same flash plugin works fine.
Clues?
Hi there,
I had a similar issue to this a while back on a Fedora box, I found out it was not flash plugin or firefox causing the issue, it turned out that it was the proprietary Nvidia driver that I was using. So if you are using Nvidia driver, it might be worth looking into. My issue was resolved by updating the driver.
Your issue may be different, but I thought I would mention it just in case :-).
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 07:50:11AM +0000, Jake Shipton wrote:
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:36:14 -0500 fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On my centos 5.7 system, using Firefox 10.1, suddenly flash videos have stopped working, like, today. they worked yesterday. Now all I get is an error message that the flash plugin has crashed, reload page and try again.
strangely, my centos-6 machine using the same firefox and the same flash plugin works fine.
Clues?
Hi there,
I had a similar issue to this a while back on a Fedora box, I found out it was not flash plugin or firefox causing the issue, it turned out that it was the proprietary Nvidia driver that I was using. So if you are using Nvidia driver, it might be worth looking into. My issue was resolved by updating the driver.
Your issue may be different, but I thought I would mention it just in case :-).
Yes, I'm using the nvidia driver bundle from Nvidia's web site. but then I ALWAYS have been (this machine is something like 3 years old). However, I did update it recently, I'll have to see if I can figure out exactly when that was (less than a week...), and maybe reinstall the one I had previously.
thanks for the hint!
fred smith wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 07:50:11AM +0000, Jake Shipton wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:36:14 -0500 fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On my centos 5.7 system, using Firefox 10.1, suddenly flash videos have stopped working, like, today. they worked yesterday. Now all I get is an error message that the flash plugin has crashed, reload page and try again.
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Yes, I'm using the nvidia driver bundle from Nvidia's web site. but then I ALWAYS have been (this machine is something like 3 years old). However, I did update it recently, I'll have to see if I can figure out exactly when that was (less than a week...), and maybe reinstall the one I had previously.
Strong recommendation: enable elrepo, at least for kmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia. That way, when you update, it will autoupdate and autorebuild for you. I've just started moving that was for my people (and me) who have nvidia (esp old nvidia) cards.
mark
On 02/16/2012 08:25 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
fred smith wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 07:50:11AM +0000, Jake Shipton wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:36:14 -0500 fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On my centos 5.7 system, using Firefox 10.1, suddenly flash videos have stopped working, like, today. they worked yesterday. Now all I get is an error message that the flash plugin has crashed, reload page and try again.
<snip> > Yes, I'm using the nvidia driver bundle from Nvidia's web site. but > then I ALWAYS have been (this machine is something like 3 years old). > However, I did update it recently, I'll have to see if I can figure > out exactly when that was (less than a week...), and maybe reinstall > the one I had previously. Strong recommendation: enable elrepo, at least for kmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia. That way, when you update, it will autoupdate and autorebuild for you. I've just started moving that was for my people (and me) who have nvidia (esp old nvidia) cards.
I echo this recommendation.
I used to use the NVIDIA drivers directly from the nvidia.com, but since I upgraded my workstation to CentOS-6.x I have been using elrepo's rpms for nvidia with no issues.
I certainly know how to build things (being that I build most of the c4 and c5 updates that we release), but I love the convenience that elrepo provides. I highly recommend the elrepo site for anything that they currently maintain, they do a great job.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:15:18AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 02/16/2012 08:25 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
fred smith wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 07:50:11AM +0000, Jake Shipton wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:36:14 -0500 fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On my centos 5.7 system, using Firefox 10.1, suddenly flash videos have stopped working, like, today. they worked yesterday. Now all I get is an error message that the flash plugin has crashed, reload page and try again.
<snip> > Yes, I'm using the nvidia driver bundle from Nvidia's web site. but > then I ALWAYS have been (this machine is something like 3 years old). > However, I did update it recently, I'll have to see if I can figure > out exactly when that was (less than a week...), and maybe reinstall > the one I had previously. Strong recommendation: enable elrepo, at least for kmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia. That way, when you update, it will autoupdate and autorebuild for you. I've just started moving that was for my people (and me) who have nvidia (esp old nvidia) cards.
I echo this recommendation.
I used to use the NVIDIA drivers directly from the nvidia.com, but since I upgraded my workstation to CentOS-6.x I have been using elrepo's rpms for nvidia with no issues.
I certainly know how to build things (being that I build most of the c4 and c5 updates that we release), but I love the convenience that elrepo provides. I highly recommend the elrepo site for anything that they currently maintain, they do a great job.
without having yet switched to a repo instead of using the package from nvidia's web site, I just reinstalled the previous version of the nvidia drivers and now flash works. go figure.
the one that was NOT working for me was 290.10, and the next newest one I had (the one I am now using again) is 285.05.09.
of course, that doesn't say it's an nvidia bug, it may well be a flash problem. time will tell, perhaps.
thanks for the advise to all of you!
Fred
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM, fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:15:18AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
I used to use the NVIDIA drivers directly from the nvidia.com, but since I upgraded my workstation to CentOS-6.x I have been using elrepo's rpms for nvidia with no issues.
I certainly know how to build things (being that I build most of the c4 and c5 updates that we release), but I love the convenience that elrepo provides. I highly recommend the elrepo site for anything that they currently maintain, they do a great job.
without having yet switched to a repo instead of using the package from nvidia's web site, I just reinstalled the previous version of the nvidia drivers and now flash works. go figure.
the one that was NOT working for me was 290.10, and the next newest one I had (the one I am now using again) is 285.05.09.
Now that you know which version of the Nvidia driver to use, it is time to switch to ELRepo. :-) Otherwise you have to keep re-installing it for each kernel update. You can see here (for example):
http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/
that ELRepo maintains earlier versions of the driver. Install the one you want, and exclude it in yum.conf so that the "good" one stays on your system.
Akemi
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:09:08 -0800 Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM, fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:15:18AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
I used to use the NVIDIA drivers directly from the nvidia.com, but since I upgraded my workstation to CentOS-6.x I have been using elrepo's rpms for nvidia with no issues.
I certainly know how to build things (being that I build most of the c4 and c5 updates that we release), but I love the convenience that elrepo provides. I highly recommend the elrepo site for anything that they currently maintain, they do a great job.
without having yet switched to a repo instead of using the package from nvidia's web site, I just reinstalled the previous version of the nvidia drivers and now flash works. go figure.
the one that was NOT working for me was 290.10, and the next newest one I had (the one I am now using again) is 285.05.09.
Now that you know which version of the Nvidia driver to use, it is time to switch to ELRepo. :-) Otherwise you have to keep re-installing it for each kernel update. You can see here (for example):
http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/
that ELRepo maintains earlier versions of the driver. Install the one you want, and exclude it in yum.conf so that the "good" one stays on your system.
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Glad to hear Fred fixed his issue :-).
Just for the record, I too manually install Nvidia drivers without a repo on all my machines (Both CentOS & Fedora). This issue can be triggered by xorg updates etc. It can be a bit of a pain having to reinstall the drivers manually, but for me I always run into some weird problem or other with the repository versions. So I just keep a good version of the driver at "/nv.run" and run it after each xorg or kernel update :-). But that is my personal preference.
But if you do not get problems with the RPM versions I would recommend you get them :-).
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