opensuse 11.3 won't play older flash

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this is about a problem getting worse over time. flash videos
fail with the “an error occurred. please try again later.”. going
to youtube and randomly selecting videos, it seems that any video
submitted after 2008 most likely will not play. older videos play
just fine. was there a format change somewhere along the line?
i’ve searched here, but not found anything that covers this
situation.

there are no additional flash packages installed other than the two
below.

any suggestions?

suse 11.3
Linux nyx 2.6.34-12-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-06-29 02:39:08 +0200
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Information for package flash-player:

Repository: @System
Name: flash-player
Version: 10.3.183.5-0.2.1
Arch: i586
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 22.2 MiB
Summary: Adobe Flash PlugIn and standalone Player
Description:
This package contains Adobe’s Flash Plugin for the supported Web
browsers in addition to a standalone flash player application.

Information for package pullin-flash-player:

Repository: @System
Name: pullin-flash-player
Version: 11.3.1-2.1.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 1.0 KiB
Summary: Placeholder for Adobe Flash PlugIn
Description:
The installation of this package triggers online update of
flash-player.

Information for package mozillafirefox:

Repository: Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82
Name: MozillaFirefox
Version: 3.6.18-0.2.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: out-of-date (version 3.6.17-0.2.1 installed)
Installed Size: 3.4 MiB
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Description:
Mozilla Firefox is a standalone web browser, designed for standards
compliance and performance. Its functionality can be enhanced via a
plethora of extensions.

2

You seem to contradict yourself:

11-3-wont-play-older-flash

older videos play
just fine

You could try
Fix your flash in 11.4 _64 with flash square
Look thru the whole thread

You can also use a repo for it now
Index of /repositories/home:/Grieff/openSUSE_11.4

3

yes. should have said only play older flash.

4

went through the steps for the manual install on “fix your flash 11.4”. the adobe flash test page with the flying f in a red box works and says version 11,0,1,98 is installed. however, no youtubes will play. all now give the “error has occurred…”. i do have flashblock and noscript installed, but both are disabled.

nyx:/home/ewhite/work # uname -a
Linux nyx 2.6.34-12-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-06-29 02:39:08 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
nyx:/home/ewhite/work # rpm -qa flash-player
nyx:/home/ewhite/work # rpm -qa gnash
nyx:/home/ewhite/work # ls -l /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/
total 18560
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2010-08-21 17:45 javaplugin.so → /etc/alternatives/javaplugin
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 18708232 2011-08-22 20:37 libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 134648 2011-08-14 07:53 npwrapper.nppdf.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 2010-08-21 17:47 npwrapper.so → …/…/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/linux/npwrapper.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48528 2010-07-05 18:41 packagekit-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 77008 2010-07-05 18:53 skypebuttons.so

5

Either test a new user login or rename .mozilla in your current account to .mozilla-old and test again. Also make sure you have updated firefox if an update is available.

6

built a new firefox profile, flashes are now playing. at least the copeland compressor flash i needed plays. seems a lot of firefox issues are caused by the profile. i probably should have done this step first. wish there was a profile clean/fix tool.

thanks for the assist.

7

It’s OK
I hate it when this happens. I’ve been OK with the same profile for several years now.
I make regular backups

8

sorry to bump this, i know it’s old but I’m having the same issue…

i did all that was said…here and in the links posted here…but still my firefox 9 doens’t see the flash in browser-plugins…

could somebody guide me?

thanks
here are some infos…

harvested@andrei:~/Downloads> uname -a
Linux andrei.site 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-04-06 18:11:26 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

harvested@andrei:~/Downloads> ls -l /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/
total 18608
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2011-04-27 21:30 javaplugin.so → /etc/alternatives/javaplugin
-rw-rw-r-x 1 501 501 18782360 2011-11-01 03:56 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2011-10-23 18:11 libvlcplugin.so → …/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 142664 2012-01-06 19:39 npwrapper.nppdf.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 2012-01-06 19:39 npwrapper.so → …/…/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/linux/npwrapper.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 48528 2010-07-06 02:41 packagekit-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 77008 2010-11-19 21:07 skypebuttons.so

harvested@andrei:~/Downloads> rpm -qa flash-player
harvested@andrei:~/Downloads> rpm -qa gnash

9

So can we assume you put libflashplayer.so in the plugins dir?
Because it is there, even though you don’t have flash-player installed!

You try dropping a copy of libflashplayer.so in your hidden /home
.mozilla/plugins/

10

i’ve copied libflashplayer.so in the folder you specified, but nothing changed… :expressionless:

11

Then something fishy is going on

Test a new user login

12

i’ve tried with a new user…and firefox still doesn’t want to play flash

13

Then I suggest you go here
Adobe - Download Adobe Flash Player

Save and extract and you only need the file: libflashplayer.so
Try that in place of the file you have.

14

ok, i’ve done that…
and still no result…

maybe I’m doing something wrong…i guess…it’s not maybe since it isn’t working …

the file libflashplayer.so should be copied in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/ right?

15

the file libflashplayer.so should be copied in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/ right?
Correct

You could try removing it completely
Including the one you placed in .mozilla
Then install flash-player from non-oss. See if that works. It’s 32 bit with the wrapper though, I think so in 11.3 anyway.

16

ok, I can remove it completely…
is there any automation for it?
cause I don’t really remember where I’ve copied all thos files from the extracted /usr/ folder…

and also, I really don’t know how to install it otherwise…like non-oss
i though it might have something to do with nswrapper…cause i’v read things on mozila also…

17 
sudo rm /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

You need to check if you put the plugin in your users hidden .mozilla/plugins, if you did, remove it.

Then do

sudo zypper in flash-player
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Ok, so I’ve rm all the libflashplayer.so files that I could find…they were all over the place like in /root/.mozilla/plugins also in home folder/.mozilla/plugins/, in /usr/lib64/…

and I zyppered in the flash-player but…still no changes… when I try to watch something on youtube it still requiers flash plugin… :expressionless:

what am I doing wrong?

19

All browsers the same?

20

Also, post result of

rpm -qa flash-player nspluginwrapper