[raring] nspluginwrapper installation finishes with Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[Alin Andrei]

When installing nspluginwrapper in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail 64bit, the installation finishes with: Segmentation fault (core dumped).

Here's the complete output:

sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper
[sudo] password for andrei:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  nspluginviewer:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nspluginviewer:i386 nspluginwrapper
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
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Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/multiverse nspluginviewer i386 1.4.4-0ubuntu4 [86.0 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/multiverse nspluginwrapper amd64 1.4.4-0ubuntu4 [116 kB]
Fetched 202 kB in 0s (460 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package nspluginviewer.
(Reading database ... 507132 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nspluginviewer (from .../nspluginviewer_1.4.4-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package nspluginwrapper.
Unpacking nspluginwrapper (from .../nspluginwrapper_1.4.4-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nspluginviewer (1.4.4-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up nspluginwrapper (1.4.4-0ubuntu4) ...
plugin dirs:
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: nspluginwrapper 1.4.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-2.6-generic 3.8.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 1 01:35:12 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-30 (32 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nspluginwrapper
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-12 (19 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Craig Denman (cdenman)]

Continued problem. Ubuntu Raring 3.8.0-9. Synaptic indicates under "Dependencies" that nspluginwrapper "conflicts" with nspluginwrapper.

[hollerith (hollerith)]

No Citrix for me! This was only removed by an update last two weeks or so?

Tried to reinstall and got:

plugin dirs:
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Update plugin /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.npica.so
  NPAPI plugin /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/npica.so is no longer available, removing wrapper
Remove plugin /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.npica.so
Deleted symlink '/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/npwrapper.npica.so' to this plugin.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

[AMSlider (dan-deeog)]

I tried to reinstall as well and got:

# apt-get install nspluginwrapper
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nspluginwrapper
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/115 kB of archives.
After this operation, 330 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package nspluginwrapper.
(Reading database ... 329218 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nspluginwrapper (from .../nspluginwrapper_1.4.4-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nspluginwrapper (1.4.4-0ubuntu5) ...
plugin dirs:
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

[Sergio Callegari (callegar)]

On my raring system nspluginwrappers looks to be installed

However

nspluginwrapper --list

segfaults and

sudo nspluginwrapper --list

does not segfault but reports nothing

[Sergio Callegari (callegar)]

Removing gecko-mediaplayer fixes the issue for me

[Sergio Callegari (callegar)]

Should nsplugin wrapper be taught not to wrap gecko mediaplayer stuff?

[Sergio Callegari (callegar)]

Other distros seem to be able to say something like

export IGNORE_WRAP="libtotem*:libjavaplugin*:gecko-media*"

in /etc/sysconfig/nspluginwrapper

found nothing like that in raring...

[david6 (andrew-dowden)]

Any safe workaround, temporary measure?

  Remove 'gecko-mediaplayer' ?

  Diable flash / media in Firefox ?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This may be the same bug as bug 1105417.

[Russell (russelljbrennan)]

Building off what brian-murray said, I did apt-get --purge remove totem-mozilla and now do not get segfaults when reinstalling or when running 'nspluginwrapper --list'.

[victor dramba (victor-dramba)]

I managed to make nspluginwrapper work by installing:

sudo apt-get install libnss3:i386

One can get more info abut the error with -v option (verbose):

sudo nspluginwrapper -v -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

[victor dramba (victor-dramba)]

It still doesn't work, the plugin now shows up in Chrome and Firefox settings, but the Flash area is blank.

[Jiri Gaisler (e-jiri)]

Had the same problem on 13.10 and 14.04. Solved it by doing:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++6:i386