[Nottingham] Firefox problem

[Ron Wilton]

Hello Andy and James


Andy

I get the following from your suggestions:

 
ron at ron-desktop:~$ cat/proc/$(pgrep
firefox)/cmdline 
bash: cat/proc/1945/cmdline: No such
file or directory 


ron at ron-desktop:~$ cat /proc/$(pgrep
firefox)/maps  |grep flash 
ron at ron-desktop:~$


ron at ron-desktop:~$ uname -i 
i386 



about:plugins
Shockwave Flash
File: /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
Version: 
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
MIME Type
Description
Suffixes
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf 
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl 


ron at ron-desktop:~$ dpkg
--get-selections |grep flash 
flashplugin-installer				install 
James

Also, I have a 32-bit AMD Athlon XP 3000+ CPU.

Have also tried the 'Ubuntu restricted extras' from the Ubuntu Software Centre, with no joy.

Seem to be running out of ideas, but I've still yet to try the WINE idea, though.

Thanks

Ron




________________________________
 From: Andy White <andy at milky.org.uk>
To: Notts GNU/Linux Users Group <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
Cc: Ron Wilton <ron_w_add at yahoo.co.uk> 
Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2013, 23:43
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Firefox problem
 
Hi All,

[snip]
> You didn't state if you were using 32 or 64bit and I forgot to ask (sorry).
> Is you CPU AMD and are you running 32bit?  If so, you might be out
> of luck as I've seen people state that Flash does not run on some
> 32bit AMD systems.
[snip]

file `cat /proc/$(pgrep firefox)/cmdline`
should tells us whether firefox is 32 or 64-bit.

Also:

uname -i

Will tell us if you're using a 64-bit/32-bit OS (if you're 64-bit, but
using a 32-bit firefox, then it's probable you're updating the wrong version
of flash).

Also, it's worth checking the url:

about:plugins

in firefox,  to see if it's finding any at all. If it is, the output of:

cat /proc/$(pgrep firefox)/maps  |grep flash

ought to show the actual shared-objects being loaded (the paths may prove
useful; in my case, my flash shared object isn't actually in a package, but
is pulled in via flashplugin-installer).

also the output of

dpkg --get-selections |grep flash

Would be helpful.

Andy
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