Re: Firefox 1.0.3 hates Flash, apparently.

Kelli Halliburton wrote:
> I recently upgraded my system from Mandrake 9.2 to Mandr[ake|iva] 10.1,
> which was an adventure in itself. Once I got it done, I installed Firefox
> 1.0.3. That went well enough; everything worked as it should.
> 
> Not content to leave well enough alone, though, I delved into the Mandrake
> configuration tools and set up my Software Management tool to basically
> "UPDATE ALL EVARYTHING!" (to paraphrase the ever-popular Zero Wing). All
> the packages on my machine that had new updates got updated, successfully.
> 
> Obviously, I broke something. Unfortunately, having let it do its thing
> automatically, I have no idea what.
> 
> Here's how the symptoms manifest:
> 
> Any page featuring Flash will either quit or crash a running Firefox.
> Repeatable, testable, Flash is the deciding factor.
> 
> I have the latest Flash plugin. (7,0,25) I have the latest Firefox.
> (1.0.3) Since having this trouble first crop up, I have deleted and
> re-installed both Firefox and Flash.
> 
> So, I can only blame one of the packages that were updated. Are there any
> known issues between Firefox 1.0.3, Flash 7, and any of the Mandrake 10.1
> packages' latest versions?

I don't use Firefox, but a couple of things worth trying are ldd 
libflashplayer.so; and run the app in a terminal and see what barfs up. 
  Maybe with an strace if normal stdout isn't definitive.

Rinaldi
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