Bug 207621
Summary: | Installation of flash plugin fails. | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Miller <davem> |
Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Christopher Aillon <caillon> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6 | CC: | dwalsh, wtogami |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-01-10 20:26:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
David Miller
2006-09-21 22:13:03 UTC
What directory did it install it into? Did you have restorecond running? It installed by default into ~/.mozilla/plugins. I tried also to copy the plugin files, as root, into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and also /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7/plugins/, but the same failure occurs. restorecond is running restorecon libflashplayer.so Should set its context to textrel_shlib_t Which will allow it to work. I'll try that out, thanks. What should firefox be doing internall when it installs plugins in order to avoid this problem? Should it run restorecon after a plugin install? If it knows what files get put into the plugin/ directory I suppose it could do that. Yes or use the install command which has a built in restorecon. Firefox hasn't had the necessary changes made which will make the restorecon invocation occur, so why close the bug? It's still there. Please provide a reasoning when you close a bug. It is very much still a bug in that if someone tries to install flash right now as I did, the same thing is likely to happen unless specific changes were made to Firefox to deal with this issue. I'm reopening this and I'd like to ask that it stay's open until the Firefox issue is truly resolved. Thanks a lot! Fine that change the bug to firefox. It would be improper for firefox to change the selinux context of the downloaded file itself. This is due to Bug #189622 where Flash Player 7 using text relocations, which is disallowed by selinux policy. Flash Player 9 due out soon fixes this problem. Meanwhile, you can either: 1) http://macromedia.mplug.org/ Use the Flash Player 7 RPM from here which avoids this problem. 2) http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html Use Flash Player 9 Beta2 3) Wait until Flash Player 9 is released soon. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189622 *** |