- Original Message
From: Bogdan Nicolescu dry...@gmail.com
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
Cc: spamt...@knobisoft.de
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 3:51:48 AM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x
under CentOs-5.3 (yum up to date) = libcurl.so.3/libcurl.so.4 missing
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
- Original Message
From: Martin Knoblauch
To: Centos Discussions
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:16:20 PM
Subject: Problems with Adobe flash-plugin and Firefox-3.5.x under
CentOs-5.3
(yum up to date)
Hi,
I am running 32-bit Firefox-3.5.3 on Centos-5.3 (64-bit kernel) on a Dell
Precision M65 laptop. This is likely a Adobe problem, but maybe someone
else
has
seen this before. Please CC me, as I only receive the digest version of the
list.
When using the 10.0.32.18-release version of the flash-plugin, trying
to access *any* page containing flash (e.g. www.adobe.com) causes the
browser to die. This also happens with version 10.0.22.87. Version
9.0.115.0 works fine. To avoid problems with add-ons, Firefox is
started with -safe-mode. As far as I know, the problem also happens
with Firefox-3.0.x.
# uname -a
Linux l6g0223j 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 08:21:56 EDT 2009
x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# rpm -q flash-plugin
flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release
Any idea? Anything I can help debugging the problem?
The problem turns out that libflashplayer.so (Version 10.x) is looking for
dynamically loading libcurl.so.3 or libcurl.so.4. This dependency is neither
documented, nor present in the flash-plugin RPMs from Adobe (both 32- and
64-bit). The dependency probably should also be present in the firefox RPM
itself.
I found out by chance when the problem went away after installing the
curl.i386 package to get firefox building on my system.
Cheers
Martin
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Documented here under dependencies:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/153/tn_15380.html
Hi Bogdan,
interesting. Care to tell me how to find that page unless you know that you
are looking for libcurl or a library dependency? Just curious.
The official Release Notes on the Adobe Home Page don't show this dependency,
neither does the System Requirements page or the README that comes with the
RPM.
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/10/Flash_Player_10_Release_Notes.pdf
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/
rant
Adobe really does not do a good job here to reveal the dependencies. One could
also argue, that the runtime handling of the dlopen error seems to be lacking
also. Just crashing the application without a hint is not really professional.
And one could blame the firefox developers/packagers for not including a hint
to a dependency on libcurl themselves. Apparently their crashreporter utility
itself uses it and segfaults without an useful error message when trying to
report the flash-plugin failure :-)
But my ranting has nothing to do on a CentOs forum, of course.
rant
Q: where are the CentOs RPMS for firefox and flash-plugin coming from? They are
available via yum, so are they provided by the CentOs team, or are they coming
from the developers?
Cheers
Martin
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