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flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#16 Post by fz0dbx »

I purged iceweasel, chromium, and flash again and reinstalled. Flash still does not work in chromium, iceweasel, iceape.
I tried creating the mms.cfg and putting EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode = 1
OverrideGPUValidation=true
in it. It doesn't help.

Basically, even though flash shows up in about::plugins, when going to a page with flash, the browsers still say a plugin is needed. Sometimes chromium says the plugin needs permission to run and I click on allow but still it doesn't work.

This is maddening. I have 4 other computers running the same level of debian and flash works on all of them. This is the only one I am running the nvidia driver on. Maybe the next step is to try the noveau driver.

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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#17 Post by fz0dbx »

I installed the flash-aid extension. I can't tell that it did anything. It said it was installing and then asked if I wanted to restart so I did. After iceweasel restarted, it came back up to the flash-aid extension install page. I can't tell that it did anything with flash. The same flash shows up in about::plugins. I don't see any flash-aid plugin in about::plugins.

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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#18 Post by 62chevy »

fz0dbx wrote:I installed the flash-aid extension. I can't tell that it did anything. It said it was installing and then asked if I wanted to restart so I did. After iceweasel restarted, it came back up to the flash-aid extension install page. I can't tell that it did anything with flash. The same flash shows up in about::plugins. I don't see any flash-aid plugin in about::plugins.

With flash-aid to work you have to be a member of of sudo group and run the script after Iceweasel restarts. You should have a icon on the address bar on the far right just click that and try different things. Anyways it took the blue lips and face away by installing the correct flash for Wheezy.
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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#19 Post by fz0dbx »

I ran flash-aid and had it write the script to the desktop. Then I ran the script as root and it installed flash. It didn't help.

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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#20 Post by 62chevy »

fz0dbx wrote:I ran flash-aid and had it write the script to the desktop. Then I ran the script as root and it installed flash. It didn't help.

Didn't work that way for me either. I had to be a member of sudo before it would work.
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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#21 Post by miqu »

I have to agree on the problem, on both browsers. I have had it for about a week now. I suspect that an upgrade has broken something. Somehow the flv on both browsers are translated into something that should be handled by Totem video or some other video player.

Now of to find an answer in Debian bug reports..

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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#22 Post by craigevil »

Would love to know what the people in this thread have done to their Debian install that would screw up flash.

Just because I was curious I installed several browsers:
Chromium
Opera
qupzilla
iceape
rekonq
Seamonkey


I already have Chrome, Iceweasel, Midori, Firefox, uzbl all installed.

I removed flashplayer-mozilla and installed flashplugin-nonfree

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apt-get purge flashplayer-mozilla
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Just to make sure it was the newest version of Flash I ran

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# update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
Without doing anything flash worked in every browser, including Seamonkey.

Since I like flashplayer-mozilla I purged flashplugin-nonfree and reinstalled flashplayer-mozilla
and flash still worked in every browser that I had installed.

Are you running your browser as root?

Messing with symlinks?

You should not be messing with anything.

apt-get install chromium iceweasel flashplugin-nonfree

that is all you need to do.

I did not try epiphany because it would pullin too much Gnome crap.
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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#23 Post by miqu »

Allright, I didn't find any hints in bugreports of Iceweasel or Chromium

1st I found out that I can get Flash to work faster with a downside of stability by changing a value in the config. "So just put about:config in yuor url bar, bring up your FF/IW options and go down to dom.ipc.plugins.enabled and set it to false." This made the regular flash videos to start working. Sadly it didn't help with the EPaper I read online. (ts.fi)

Then I checked the addons that i have installed and found out that the Flashplugin is installed twice in the list. So I removed the older version and it worked. The Epaper site and videos work. Videos are fast even in full screen now, propably because of that option I set before. :)

Of to report a bug...

...and that is now here:

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674931: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674931
Debian Bug Tracking System

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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#24 Post by craigevil »

In case anyone is wondering what dom.ipc.plugins.enabled does:
Plugin-container and out-of-process plugins - MozillaZine Knowledge Base - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-contai ... ss_plugins
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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#25 Post by 62chevy »

craigevil wrote:In case anyone is wondering what dom.ipc.plugins.enabled does:
Plugin-container and out-of-process plugins - MozillaZine Knowledge Base - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-contai ... ss_plugins

thanks saved me from Googling that. Not sure the adverage person would want to disable that feature thou.
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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#26 Post by fz0dbx »

When I set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false, Iceweasel crashes when going to a page with flash. When I run Iceseasel from the command line and it crashes, all that it says is "Illegal instruction". Iceseasel doesn't crash when I set dom.ipc.plugins.enables back to the default of true.

I tried using the nouveau driver instead of the nvidia driver. I can't get X to start with the nouveau driver. It seams like installing the nvidia driver may divert so many things that nouveau won't work. I tried renaming /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf so it didn't blacklist nouveau and removing the xorg.conf for nvidia. I tried removing some of the nvidia packages. I didn't try removing all of the nvidia packages because there are so many and I didn't want to break everything.

Does it make sense for /usr/lib/mesa-diverted to be circular?
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted -> /etc/alternatives/libGL.so-master -> /usr/lib/mesa-diverted

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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#27 Post by 62chevy »

fz0dbx wrote:I tried using the nouveau driver instead of the nvidia driver. I can't get X to start with the nouveau driver. It seams like installing the nvidia driver may divert so many things that nouveau won't work. I tried renaming /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf so it didn't blacklist nouveau and removing the xorg.conf for nvidia. I tried removing some of the nvidia packages. I didn't try removing all of the nvidia packages because there are so many and I didn't want to break everything.

Depends on how you installed the nvidia drivers. If you install yourself then you need to delete /etc/apt/xorg.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf, if you used apt-get then apt-get should remove nvidia drives and either way you will have to do an " aptitude reinstall xorg ", this will pull back in any missing dependencies.
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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#28 Post by fz0dbx »

I installed the nvidia drivers in the usual way in Synaptic.

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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#29 Post by 62chevy »

fz0dbx wrote:I installed the nvidia drivers in the usual way in Synaptic.

Then you should use either apt-get or synaptic to remove nvidia drivers you installed.
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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#30 Post by fz0dbx »

When I run iceweasel with --verbose --debugger and dom.ipc.plugins.enabled set to false I get the following:


Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x97b57ab0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so

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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#31 Post by fz0dbx »

If I remove flashplayer-mozilla and go to a page like youtube. It will tell me I need a plugin but then it will play the HTML5 version of the video. This is better than nothing. At least for videos that have both flash and HTML5, I will be able to see the HTML5. There is definitely something wrong with the flash .so or libraries that it depends on or the nvidia driver. Is there someplace I can get older flash plugins to try?

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#32 Post by craigevil »

Adobe Flash Player 11.2 under NVIDIA drivers (hangs, crashes and blue skin color) - nV News Forums - http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=177380

How to fix the leaking overlay problem of Flash and Nvidia - my-guides.net - http://www.my-guides.net/en/guides/linu ... and-nvidia

Fragments of nothing?: Linux: Gnome 3.4, Nvidia. Fix tearing in fullscreen Flash - http://fragmentsofnothing.blogspot.com/ ... ng-in.html

Flash video appears blue - Ask Ubuntu - http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/f ... pears-blue

Remove and purge flash, if you use Iceweasel/Firefox remove the pluginreg.dat, if you use Chromium/Chrome delete the entire cache in ~/cache mine for example is /home/craig/.cache/google-chrome/ .

Reinstall flashplugin-nonfree, follow any of the fixes in the links posted above.

Do not manually move the flash plugin, or mess with symlinks.

If it is not working at all check the permissions on your browser executable.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 craig craig 54008 Apr 20 18:59 firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 17 12:42 iceweasel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 22 20:17 google-chrome

and the plugin's permissions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17379564 May 6 18:46 libflashplayer.so

Also check that the correct flash is set
Current status can be checked by running
update-alternatives --display flash-mozilla.so

If its not set it:
update-alternatives --config mozilla-flashplugin
or
update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so

Using alternatives you can leave gnash and lightspark installed, but browsers will use Adobe Flash.
update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so

I use flashplayer-mozilla so this it what it shows:

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$ update-alternatives --display flash-mozilla.so
flash-mozilla.so - auto mode
  link currently points to /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so - priority 10
Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so'.
Flash works if its not working it is one of two things:
problems with the video driver , nvidia seems to have a ton of issues
second, PEBKAC

I do not have an system with nvidia, or even fglrx, all I have is this ancient Thinkpad using radeon.
But I have tried every browser in the repos and every time flash works.
I tried it 4 ways
flashplugin-nonfree
flashplayer-mozilla
and downloading it directly from Adobe and putting the plugin where it belongs
even used the stupid Flash-aid extension which btw is made for Ubuntu which is why it uses sudo
every time it just worked.
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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium

#33 Post by 62chevy »

Adobe Flash is the biggest piece of crap software there is for Linux. For that reason I only manually install Flash and always keep an older version laying around. That way when you install the newest version and it doesn't work it's easy to put the old one back in.
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Re: flash fails in iceweasel and chromium - 10.3 WORKS

#34 Post by fz0dbx »

Yes Adobe is junk. I already had to pin an old version of acroread because newer versions didn't work for pdf portfolios anymore. The problem with flash turns out to be the version also. I got an older version 10.3 from adobe and that works. I don't know whose fault it is Adobe or Nvidia but the latest version of Nvidia in Wheezy does not work with the latest version of flash. At least for my video card.

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