Flash 10 Fails to Install Properly; Unrecognized by Firefox 3

[jacobwwood]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

Release of Ubuntu: 8.10
Version of flashplugin-nonfree: 10.0.12.36ubuntu1
What I expected to happen: A normal upgrade from Flash 9 to Flash 10, and for the new plugin to be recognized by Firefox 3.03.
What happened instead: When upgrading to Intrepid Ibex (8.10), flashplugin-nonfree was upgraded from 9 to 10. Upon the upgrade to Flash 10, Firefox 3.03 ceased to receognize the Flash plugin. I tried a complete removal (--purge) and reinstallation of Flash 10, but was met with an installation error. At this point, the package shows as installed despite the error, and Firefox still fails to recognize it. Subsequent attempts at reinstallation are met with the error the following error:

E: flashplugin-nonfree: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.12.36ubuntu1
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.12.36ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. There's no evidence of what went wrong during the install in the provided log files.

Please can you try the following command:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree

and attach the output of the command or the file /var/log/apt/term.log (you need to have superuser privileges in order to read that file)

Thanks.

[jacobwwood (jacobwwood)]

Sure thing! Thanks for responding. Here's the output of the command:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (10.0.12.36ubuntu1) ...
Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[jacobwwood (jacobwwood)]

Thanks again for the suggestion. I did some Googling and it looks like this might just be another instance of bug 272314.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

That's it. I'm marking this report as duplicate.

Thanks for your help.