Re: [CentOS] Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x under CentOs-5.3 (yum up to date) => libcurl.so.3/libcurl.so.4 missing
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From: Martin Knoblauch spamtrap@knobisoft.de To: Centos Discussions centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:16:20 PM Subject: Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x under CentOs-5.3 (yum up to date)
Hi,
I am running 32-bit Firefox-3.5.3 on Centos-5.3 (64-bit kernel) on a Dell Precision M65 laptop. This is likely a Adobe problem, but maybe someone else has seen this before. Please CC me, as I only receive the digest version of the list.
When using the 10.0.32.18-release version of the flash-plugin, trying to access *any* page containing flash (e.g. www.adobe.com) causes the browser to die. This also happens with version 10.0.22.87. Version 9.0.115.0 works fine. To avoid problems with add-ons, Firefox is started with "-safe-mode". As far as I know, the problem also happens with Firefox-3.0.x.
# uname -a Linux l6g0223j 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 08:21:56 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # rpm -q flash-plugin flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release
Any idea? Anything I can help debugging the problem?
The problem turns out that libflashplayer.so (Version 10.x) is looking for dynamically loading libcurl.so.3 or libcurl.so.4. This dependency is neither documented, nor present in the flash-plugin RPMs from Adobe (both 32- and 64-bit). The dependency probably should also be present in the firefox RPM itself.
I found out by chance when the problem went away after installing the curl.i386 package to get firefox building on my system.
Cheers Martin
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Martin Knoblauch spamtrap@knobisoft.de wrote:
----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Knoblauch spamtrap@knobisoft.de To: Centos Discussions centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:16:20 PM Subject: Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x under CentOs-5.3 (yum up to date)
Hi,
I am running 32-bit Firefox-3.5.3 on Centos-5.3 (64-bit kernel) on a Dell Precision M65 laptop. This is likely a Adobe problem, but maybe someone else has seen this before. Please CC me, as I only receive the digest version of the list.
When using the 10.0.32.18-release version of the flash-plugin, trying to access *any* page containing flash (e.g. www.adobe.com) causes the browser to die. This also happens with version 10.0.22.87. Version 9.0.115.0 works fine. To avoid problems with add-ons, Firefox is started with "-safe-mode". As far as I know, the problem also happens with Firefox-3.0.x.
# uname -a Linux l6g0223j 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 08:21:56 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # rpm -q flash-plugin flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release
Any idea? Anything I can help debugging the problem?
The problem turns out that libflashplayer.so (Version 10.x) is looking for dynamically loading libcurl.so.3 or libcurl.so.4. This dependency is neither documented, nor present in the flash-plugin RPMs from Adobe (both 32- and 64-bit). The dependency probably should also be present in the firefox RPM itself.
I found out by chance when the problem went away after installing the curl.i386 package to get firefox building on my system.
Cheers Martin
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Documented here under dependencies:
----- Original Message ----
From: Bogdan Nicolescu dryrye@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Cc: spamtrap@knobisoft.de Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 3:51:48 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x under CentOs-5.3 (yum up to date) => libcurl.so.3/libcurl.so.4 missing
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Knoblauch To: Centos Discussions Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:16:20 PM Subject: Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x under CentOs-5.3
(yum up to date)
Hi,
I am running 32-bit Firefox-3.5.3 on Centos-5.3 (64-bit kernel) on a Dell Precision M65 laptop. This is likely a Adobe problem, but maybe someone else
has
seen this before. Please CC me, as I only receive the digest version of the list.
When using the 10.0.32.18-release version of the flash-plugin, trying to access *any* page containing flash (e.g. www.adobe.com) causes the browser to die. This also happens with version 10.0.22.87. Version 9.0.115.0 works fine. To avoid problems with add-ons, Firefox is started with "-safe-mode". As far as I know, the problem also happens with Firefox-3.0.x.
# uname -a Linux l6g0223j 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 08:21:56 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # rpm -q flash-plugin flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release
Any idea? Anything I can help debugging the problem?
The problem turns out that libflashplayer.so (Version 10.x) is looking for
dynamically loading libcurl.so.3 or libcurl.so.4. This dependency is neither documented, nor present in the flash-plugin RPMs from Adobe (both 32- and 64-bit). The dependency probably should also be present in the firefox RPM itself.
I found out by chance when the problem went away after installing the
curl.i386 package to get firefox building on my system.
Cheers Martin
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Documented here under dependencies:
Hi Bogdan,
interesting. Care to tell me how to find that page unless you know that you are looking for "libcurl" or a "library dependency"? Just curious.
The official Release Notes on the Adobe Home Page don't show this dependency, neither does the System Requirements page or the README that comes with the RPM.
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/10/Flash_Player_10... http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/
<rant Adobe really does not do a good job here to reveal the dependencies. One could also argue, that the runtime handling of the dlopen error seems to be lacking also. Just crashing the application without a hint is not really professional.
And one could blame the firefox developers/packagers for not including a hint to a dependency on libcurl themselves. Apparently their "crashreporter" utility itself uses it and segfaults without an useful error message when trying to report the flash-plugin failure :-)
But my ranting has nothing to do on a CentOs forum, of course. rant>
Q: where are the CentOs RPMS for firefox and flash-plugin coming from? They are available via yum, so are they provided by the CentOs team, or are they coming from the developers?
Cheers Martin
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Bogdan Nicolescu -
Martin Knoblauch