Flash does not work after update

[Jarno Suni]

It just does not do anything in Firefox. In chromium browser permission for the plugin is asked, but the plugin won't work after giving the permission.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.228ubuntu0.11.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.57-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 29 21:53:15 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Zoltán Nagy (nagyzo)]

flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.228ubuntu0.11.10.1 does not work in firefox 11

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

But it seems to be driver/hardware dependent. In another computer that runs updated 11.04 Adobe Flash works with both Firefox 11 and chromium-browser. For what it is worth, the one with the problem uses nouveau driver for X.

[Zoltán Nagy (nagyzo)]

Previous version works fine with the same config/machine.

Currently no better idea than uninstalling the current version (11.2.202.*) and get an old version (11.1.102.*) from the archive:
http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/

eg: adobe-flashplugin_11.1.102.62-0oneiric1_i386.deb still works fine with Firefox 11 and Xubuntu 11.10

[Peter Cherriman (pjcherriman)]

It looks like the problem is the closed source software was compiled with SSE2 instructions which are not supported on the AMD Athton XP processor I have, see....

https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3154276

However the the only safe solution for the moment is to download the security patched 10.3 version from adobe and installing manually.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

Oh, the same limitation as with Moonlight.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

pjcherriman, and how would you download & install the security patched 10.3 version? Previously mentioned http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/ provides version 10.2.159.1 for Natty and some older releases. I suppose it is security patched since it is still in the repository.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

By the way, version 10.2.159.1 does not work with chromium-browser in Natty, but it works with firefox.

[Peter Cherriman (pjcherriman)]

jarno,

I went here:

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html

Near the bottom of the screen is a link to earlier versions (which was)

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html

scroll down to Release and Content Debugger archives

I then downloaded link labelled

(Released 3/28/2012) Flash Player 10.3.183.18 (67.3 MB)
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp_10.3.183.18_archive.zip

This contained many tar/zip file I extracted the relevant archive file, and from
that archive file I then extracted the libflashplayer.so (so similar name).

I then overwrote the the file of the same name in the location the official flash package installed it.

I marked the flash package on hold so it didn't get overwritten.

So not straightforward or elegant.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

I see, but why not use http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp_11.1.102.63_archive.zip (Released 3/05/2012)? (There is also standalone player available.)

[Peter Cherriman (pjcherriman)]

I read somewhere (I'm not near the AMD PC that has the problem so can't check the internet history) that the 10.3 version had been patched against the latest vunerbility (fixed by 11.2), where as the 11.1 version was vunerable to it.

[Rovano (rovano)]

Hi Jarno,
release date 10.3 by Adobe is only fix for debugger for developers. According to me.
is there any chance to start the Adobe Flash 10.3 (32bit) on 64bit system? While I can not. Maybe wrong links.