| Summary: | flash plugin does not download/play video as user but works as expected when root | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | colin <bugzilla.redhat.com> |
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | bazanluis20, gecko-bugs-nobody, jason, jhorak, stransky |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-03-27 14:05:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
colin
2011-12-28 21:02:14 UTC
So I created a new empty profile with 'firefox -P' as recommended here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile And I started firefox in 'Safe Mode' as recommended here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode The test case shows: firefox -safe-mode -new-window --sync http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16429530 & [2] 12410 [colin@K8 utils]$ Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'npviewer.bin' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. (Details: serial 127 error_code 8 request_code 140 minor_code 3) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_HandleEvent() wait for reply: Connection closed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2848):invoke_NPP_HandleEvent: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection)) I see. Anyway, you don't need the nspluginwrapper package for i686 browser, just remove it and try again. > you don't need the nspluginwrapper package for i686 browser, > just remove it and try again. Well who knew? ;-) Ok so I did 'yum remove nspluginwrapper' That did not appear to make any difference. Another data point: The same behaviour is exhibited by the flashplayer plugin when called by uzbl-browser uzbl-browser --uri='http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/' & and firefox -new-window http://www.bbc.co.uk & both work as expected when called as root and do not work as expected (described previously) when invoked as another user. Is there anything else that I should try? Thankyou for your help Colin. Good news today. This bug has been fixed. After applying some of todays fc16 yum updates I find that expected behaviour is restored. Thankyou all! Colin. Let us know if problem reoccurs. Thanks. I'm seeing the same BadMatch error with lots of Flash sites with an up-to-date 32-bit F16 install. firefox-12.0-1.fc16.i686 nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-3.fc16.i686 flash-plugin-11.2.202.233-release.i386 A couple of sites I've hit this on in the past couple of days: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140749158/excerpt-the-astonishing-secret-of-awesome-man http://pomplamoose.spinshop.com/Hey%20It%27s%20Pomplamoose%20EP/details/146573 Youtube works fine, but many other flash boxes fail. Removing nspluginwrapper seems to fix the problem for me. Running as root does not fix it. Should I reopen this bug or file a new one? |