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Re: can't play Flash anymore



Steve Kleene wrote:
I'm quite perplexed.  I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash
recently stopped working.  It worked on both within the past month.

I have these packages installed:
  flashplayer-mozilla   9.0.48.0-0.2   Macromedia Flash Player
  libflash-mozplugin    0.4.13-8       GPL Flash (SWF) Library - Mozilla-compatible plugin
  libflash0c2           0.4.13-8       GPL Flash (SWF) Library - shared library

and these files:
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     856 2007-06-19 20:31 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   15348 2006-07-25 10:22 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflash-mozplugin.so
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7029820 2007-08-31 07:10 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      37 2007-09-01 09:55 /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/flashplayer.xpt -> ../../mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      46 2007-03-16 17:04 /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libflash-mozplugin.so -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflash-mozplugin.so
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      39 2007-09-01 09:55 /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> ../../mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 2007-01-21 09:33 /usr/lib/libflash.so.0 -> libflash.so.0.13.0
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  199996 2006-07-25 10:22 /usr/lib/libflash.so.0.13.0

If I do "about:plugins" from iceweasel, I see
    File name: libflash-mozplugin.so
    Flash Movie player Version 0.4.12 compatible with Shockwave Flash 4.0

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

But if I try to run any Flash movie, I get sent to Adobe to download the
"newest" Flash.  This turns out to be 9.0.48.0, which I already have.  For
the heck of it, I unpacked that anyway.  flashplayer.xpt was identical to
what I already have.  libflashplayer.so was not, but installing that didn't
help.

As tests, I've been trying anything at youtube or at the Flash showcase:

  http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm

Youtube videos all seem to fail, and then iceweasel crashes too.  Any ideas
what's gone wrong?  Thanks.


hi, what usually works for me is to unistall and reinstall. never had the problem in etch, dont use x but ubuntu on occasion have the problem and its worked for me. remove and reinstall, dont just download flash again, maybe thatll help..?



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