[CentOS] Firefox seg faults

Thu Mar 19 15:45:47 UTC 2009
Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>


A. Kirillov wrote:
>>>> Hi, I have two very similar AMD based work stations running fully 
>>>> current CentOS x86_64.
>>>> Both have 4Gb of RAM, both have
>>>>
>>>> [rkampen at media ~]$ sudo rpm -qa |grep flash
>>>> flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386
>>>> [rkampen at media ~]$ sudo rpm -qa |grep fire
>>>> firefox-3.0.6-1.el5.centos.i386
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Try flash-plugin-9.0.124.0.
>>> I couldn't make flash-plugin-10.0.22.87 work on my 64-bit box.
>>>
>>> # rpm -qa firefox flash-plugin
>>> flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386
>>> firefox-3.0.6-1.el5.centos.x86_64
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> two questions
>> 1. where do I find
>> flash-plugin-9.0.124.0
>>     
>
> Good question. It doesn't seem to be in the adobe repos any more.
>
> Try http://www.szivarvanynet.hu/download/linux/
> flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm
>
> The rpm there matches my local copy.
>
> # md5sum /var/lib/yum/repo/x86_64/
> flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm
> fe8a084b6c9e83740e1e3353f19d04e1  /var/lib/yum/repo/x86_64/flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm
>
>   
Well that download and install works great! - thanks.
Leaves me wondering why I can get the adobe supplied flash plugin 
working on one machine but not the other - not the kind of stuff to 
inspire confidence in ....... adobe ..... firefox ...... CentOS .....???
>> 2. how come you are running 64 bit firefox and 32 bit plugin???
>>     
>
> Install nspluginwrapper for both archs and run
> # mozilla-plugin-config --help
>
>
>   
Not for me at this time, I deliberately run the 32 bit version of 
firefox as my reading online indicates all other options are less than 
perfect - YMMV.
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