On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Bryan Sant <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Scott Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >> Suggestions? I have wanted an excuse to take my system down after a >> thorough backup and rebuild to ext4 but I'd like to think I can figure >> out why it's failing without having to resort to a reformat and >> reinstall. >> >> Scott > > I'm not sure how the Adobe plugin is a problem. The java and flash > plugins should co-exist just fine. > Try the following: > sudo apt-get --reinstall install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin > > After you've done that, verify that the plugin is visible to firefox > (Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins). You should see "Java(TM) Plug-in > 1.6.0_16" in the list. If that's the case, the browse over to that > linuxjournal address and verify that the plugin works.
Bryan: I'll try that in a few hours when I am back at that box. If, base on my history and experience with this issue, this solution doesn't work, would purging firefox and then doing a fresh install of firefox possibly help repair this? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
