flashplugin-installer installs i386 and amd64 versions of Flash plugin and confuses Firefox

[Rebecca Menessec]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

On amd64 Karmic, flashplugin-installer should not be installing the i386 build of Flash 10 *and* the amd64 alpha. This works about one out of ten tries, confuses everything, and grinds Firefox to a standstill for about thirty seconds on a 3GHz Wolfdale while it's trying to load ia32-libs-- at least, I assume that's what's happening.

That, or this is some crazy bug in nspluginwrapper, but I don't know enough about either package to tell. If this has anything to do with me using Fox 3.5.5pre from the nightly builds team, I don't know about that, either.

FWIW, Opera 10.10 (pre, of course) can't find Flash of *any* version and tends to spit up on every page-- not that Flash amd64 and Opera amd64 play well together anyhow. I ended up having to resolve this by pulling down the amd64 alpha manually from Adobe (I notice there's no download in the partner repo, where flashplugin-installer's getting its binary from) and chucking it into /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins.

Flash on Linux is horrifying enough without having to troubleshoot this kind of junk, too.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 14 21:10:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: flashplugin-installer (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Richard Hansen (rhansen)]

From what I understand, the 64-bit version of the plugin is not packaged at all, and the i386 binary is used for both i386 and amd64 platforms. See bug #326555.

Perhaps flashplugin-installer is conflicting with a manually-installed libflashplayer.so on your system. Check to see if libflashplayer.so is in ~/.mozilla/plugins. If so, and you have the flashplugin-installer package installed, then you should either uninstall flashplugin-installer or delete libflashplayer.so from your mozilla plugins directory.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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