flash plugin on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy stops working after upgrade to firefox3-final from RC1 (Ubuntu stock)?

Bug #240896 reported by gsimonita
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

~$ uname -a
Linux <myhost> 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 15:10:52 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://sm.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://sm.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

I have upgraded Firefox this very morning.

Before it was fine. Now, every page which has a flash content loads with a gray area instead of the flash. The rest of the content (HTML) is fine.
I have had *exactly* the same problem, previously, with opensuse 10.3: at a certain point - a few months and upgrades ago - the flash plugin stopped working at all in Firefox 2.x.. With Konqueror, the flash movies were still playing just fine.
At that time, I thought that the problem might have also been related to either some (buggy?) library upgrade (always through the official distro repository) or to an architectural issue (the machine was an AMD64). At this point, though, I'm starting to think that maybe Firefox has something to do with it too.

This bug *might* be in some way related to #214722, but - again - it worked fine before upgrading this morning to the final version of Firefox3 from the Release Candidate which came stock with Ubuntu Hardy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 18 11:20:08 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

Tags: apport-bug
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gsimonita (simo-greppy) wrote :
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Oliver M. Haynold (omhpublic) wrote :

This issue also affects other plugins, specifically the Acrobat plugin.

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slowtrain (pmuhl830) wrote :

I have much the same configuration (on one computer) and the same problem. One of my computers is AMD64, the other is an Intel Core Duo 2, also 64 bit. On both machines, I'm running Firefox 3.0.3 and Synaptic tells me I have installed flashplugin-nonfree, installed version 10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2 .

about:plugins in Firefox shows the following on both systems.

Shockwave Flash
    File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

Both computers have Flash failing as described in this bug report. Flash was working on an earlier version of Firefox / Flash (not sure it was exactly the last version, but something close to it).

I had Gnash installed on one system, but not the other. Still, had the same Flash problem on both systems. I uninstalled Gnash on that system, still the same problem. I've tried reinstalling Flash several times using Synaptic; same problem. I tried the flash / gnash uninstall instructions for non-clean 8.04 installations at the following URL and then tried installing Flash w/ Synaptic; problem does not change.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=772490

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slowtrain (pmuhl830) wrote :

I should perhaps also mention that I've tried going back to an earlier version of Flash, with no effect on the problem; and I've tried clearing the Firefox cache, also w/ no effect.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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gsimonita (simo-greppy) wrote :

The Firefox I am using now is (already) 3.0.5; Ubuntu is still 8.04, and I am not planning any upgrade soon (what is the LTS for - after all?!). I am constantly applying all the new bugfixes as they become available.

The issue seems mostly solved, though some minor glitches still happen on certain occasions. Since this is the desktop I use at work, though, I rarely have the time to inquire further into these minor issues: most of the times I can overcome the problems by either reloading the page or opening it with another browser (Epiphany, Galeon) - whereas before it would simply not work...

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you, gsimonita, for your fast reply. Ubuntu 8.04 should be good enough to test this because it shipps the same version of firefox as Ubuntu 8.10.

I am closing this bug due to your last comment regarding this being is mostly solved. Please reopen it if it is getting worse. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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