Description of problem: Firefox 2.0 fails to install Flash 9 plugin Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Firefox 2.0.0.4 How reproducible: 75% of the time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to flash enabled site 2. Click install missing plugins within firefox 2.0, accept licence 3. Look at failed install message Actual results: Flash 9 fails to install Expected results: Flash 9 to be installed and play videos and other flash content Additional info: Please look at the video, it shows that this error is duplicable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ayaoEUHZ4
So it looks like it works about half the time for you. It works for me every time, so not quite sure what the issue is on your machine... do you mind rebuilding from the srpm, but with --enable-debug instead of --disable-debug (in firefox-mozconfig) and seeing if there's any output when you run and do this (start firefox via a terminal)?
I have the same problem and it never works for me. However if I download the firefox version from mozilla.org and try to install the flash plugin it works 100%. But I can't and won't provide any further output because I removed Fedora 7 from my HD (too many bugs which show how poorly tested the hole distribution is, just look at the bug with gnome chess crashing the hole X-Server)
We are sorry for your bad experience with Fedora. Hopefully, things will settle down a little bit, and then you may try to reproduce this with updated versions of FC7. In meantime, closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Feel free to reopen with additional information when it becomes available.
Let's give the reporter a chance to respond.
Sorry, Valent, I have missed another unrelated comment from Andreas.
I can ask other people on mailing list to try and replicate this bug. If it happens only to me then by all means close it. If it is not a bug that happens to me then you should investigate it further - right? The issue is really easy to reproduce; shutdown firefox mv .mozilla .mozilla.bkp mv .macromedia .macromedia.bkp <repeat 5 times> and then launch firefox and go to http://www.youtube.com - and try to install flash plugin. Close Firefox rm .mozilla rm .macromedia </repeat 5 times> and then restore your firefox settings from backup: rm .mozilla rm .macromedia mv .mozilla.bkp .mozilla mv .macromedia.bkp .macromedia then report back here how many installs of flash succeeded and how much of them failed. this is an easy task, and then we will see if this is a issue happened by some off chance only to me or this is a bug. I don't see how you don't see the problem here. I posted a bug also for fedora 7 test 4, it happened there also... and how it happened again... so you draw your own conclusions...
(In reply to comment #6) > I can ask other people on mailing list to try and replicate this bug. If it > happens only to me then by all means close it. > > If it is not a bug that happens to me then you should investigate it further - > right? I'd much rather you attempt to get the information I need from comment 1. I believe you already, I don't need others to confirm that it happens to you. However it does NOT happen to me so without the information I need which I asked for in comment 1, I can't properly determine the nature of the problem or provide a fix.
I haven't rebuild SRPM packages so please provide some link to a howto or a wiki page on how to do it - then I can provide you with the info you requested. Thank you.
here is what I did: yum install yum-utils yumdownloader --source firefox and I guess the next step would be rpmbuild --rebuild --enable-debug firefox-2.0.0.4-1.fc7.src.rpm but I don't have rpmbuild installed and yum search rpmbuild yum provides rpmbuild give no usable output... what should I do?
If you know the name of a file (which since you know the binary) you can do: yum install /usr/bin/rpmbuild You'd want to modify /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/firefox-mozconfig to change the --disable-debug to --enable-debug first though. Passing it on the command line won't work. Then rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/firefox.spec
I'm not a programmer or a developer so please bare with me... 56 dependencies later... I got error when trying 'rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/firefox.spec' that I don't have gcc 'yum install gcc' fixed that not I get this error: checking for c++... no checking for g++... no which packages do I need in order to have "c++" and "g++" installed?
gcc-c++
ok, now I got Firefox with debug installed... now firefox crashes... Where can I find that log and send it to you? # grep -i firefox /var/log/ -R shows no interesting messages... where can I find firefox log file?
Try you home directory and there you will find a file named something like core.<number> (if not, then run on command line ulimit -c unlimited and repeat crash). Then run debugger gdb /usr/lib/firefox-2*/firefox-bin core.<number> and then follow http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_a_stacktrace_with_gdb in gdb prompt write command backtrace copy the result to this bug as a comment.
Valent, did you manage to create the backtrace for this bug? Please, paste it here. Just to make sure, that our bugzilla is not filled with stalled old bugs, we had to decide that bugs where reply doesn't come in one month will be closed as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
I had a really busy few weeks at work so I couldn't manage to contribute so much with bug tracking. Now I'm off to Crete for a break... so if somebody has the time please jump in and help with this bug.
When I come back from my break (three week from now) I'll try do give this bug some of my free time and feedback. But it seams to me that because of "windows like" characteristics of this bug that it is not on anybody's radar - not fedora power users or fedora devels. Ok, I understand your points of view and I respect them but please also think about this. If a browser shows a message "plugin missing" and offers some bar to click on. Any user clicking on it would expect to do what it says - to install the missing plugin. If it doesn't do what it says or if tries and fails then it is a bug. Do you agree ? How it does what it needs to do that is completely and entirely different issue. I could agree that this is "windows" way of installing flash plugin, but I still don't see any major issues with it except that flash plugin doesn't get updated during system update (yum update). If fedora devels would recode Firefox (which they would never do against upsteram) so that when a user clicks on "install missing plugin" firefox tells yum to add macromedia repo and install rpm containing flash - you have my blessing to do so :) Off course first system admin needs to give it's blessing via root password. I (and most users) don't care how it gets done as long as it "JustWorks" - anything else is a bug and should be fixed.
Cool, answer us when you come back and have a happy vacation! However, unless you answer in a month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. And please until you really answer NEEDINFO, keep it as such.
sorry, that NEEDINFO thins is ours not yours problem.
I tested fedora rawhide with latest patches - with latest Firefox 2.0.0.6 flash installs ok every time so it is fixed. Thank you.