Updated Flash fails to start

[fudgeyum]

Just updated to Flash 11.2.202.228 on my x86 Linux system and Flash no longer works. I'm using Firefox 13.0a2; Firefox 3.6.24 also fails. When going to a page with Flash content, plugin-container starts and immediately quits. Setting dom.ipc.plugins.enabled = false causes Firefox to crash when visiting pages with Flash.

[chris.campbell]

Thanks for the heads up.  I've forwarded it to one of our Linux experts for their review so he'll probably be back here with additional questions.  In the meantime, could you please open a new bug report on this over at bugbase.adobe.com?  Please post back with the URL so that others affected can add their comments and votes.

Thanks,
Chris

[fudgeyum]

https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3154276

[jgotts]

Same problem for me. Fails on i386, works on x86-64. Fedora 16 with Firefox 11. I also tried the Firefox 11 from Mozilla. No change.

11.1 works fine.

[libflashplayer_so]

i didn't see any issue on Fedora x86_64 as jgotts stated.  i'm downloading the i686 fedora iso now.  give me an hour to try it out.  brb...

[Guest]

fudgeyum wrote:

Just updated to Flash 11.2.202.228 on my x86 Linux system and Flash no longer works. I'm using Firefox 13.0a2; Firefox 3.6.24 also fails. When going to a page with Flash content, plugin-container starts and immediately quits. Setting dom.ipc.plugins.enabled = false causes Firefox to crash when visiting pages with Flash.

Firefox 13.0a2 is a pre-BETA version and therefore won't have been tested with the current version of Flash and may not perform as expected.

The other version you mentioned namely 3.6.24 is out of date and exposes your system to exploits. Update to the latest supported version which is 3.6.28: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

However, support for even this latter version will cease on 24 April this year: Firefox 3.6 approaches end of life

[pgRHTO]

If memory serves, I believe the reason the Flash 11.2.202.228 (released in late March, 2012) won't work with Firefox 3.6.28 is that Adobe no longer supports Firefox 3.6.x with the 11.2.202.228 update. I think that Flash 11.1.102.64 (released in early March 2012, and the last 11.1.x release) is the last Flash that supports Firefox 3.6.x. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[libflashplayer_so]

i'm not able to reproduce the issue with Fedora 16 i686 and Firefox 11 (see screenshot). i installed by copying over the libflashplayer.so binary to ~/.mozilla/plugins

how are you installing, rpm or binary?  can you make sure you have completely uninstalled the previous version.  also, please try with the latest Firefox 11 release.  thanks...

[fudgeyum]

Firefox 13.0a2 is a pre-BETA version and therefore won't have been tested with the current version of Flash and may not perform as expected.

The other version you mentioned namely 3.6.24 is out of date and exposes your system to exploits. Update to the latest supported version which is 3.6.28

I know this. I do not routinely use 3.6 and I was using Aurora because of a particular bug in the nightlies (which I normally use).

i'm not able to reproduce the issue with Fedora 16

I was thinking the issue is probably that 11.2 requires newer dependencies than I have on my system, but I can't seem to find a complete list, and jgotts is able to reproduce on Fedora 16 (I'm on Fedora 14), so that is probably not the case. Based on bns_robson's post in the bug report (Illegal instruction), perhaps 11.2 is compiled with additional CPU-specific optimizations enabled?

how are you installing, rpm or binary?  can you make sure you have completely uninstalled the previous version.

I was installing with yum, but also tried copying over libflashplayer.so from the tar.gz. I did `yum remove flash-plugin` (which should fail if it did not remove) and manually deleted the .adobe and .macromedia directories first (how much more complete can you get?). But now I'm testing with manually downloaded rpms because it's easier to go back and forth between working/non-working versions.

also, please try with the latest Firefox 11 release.

[00:29:27.042] navigator.userAgent
[00:29:27.056] "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0"

Flash still doesn't work.

[libflashplayer_so]

would you happen to have an NVidia GPU?  we are seeing reports of 11,2,202,228 being problematic with Nvidia and libvdpau1.

[fudgeyum]

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1

[fudgeyum]

Any status on this? There is no way it takes 6 weeks to recompile…

[Guest]

Which Firefox version are you using right now?

[libflashplayer_so]

i don't believe it's a matter of recompiling.  our build engineers have verified those builds flags for sse2 have also existed in FP10.  from what version were you updating from, meaning what was your last working release that you can confirm was working on x86 system?

it looks like someone is following up on your bug in the adobe bugbase.  that is a good first step to getting it looked at internally.  thanks...

[fudgeyum]

Right now I am using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1, but I don't see how that matters since it affects multiple versions including 3.6, 11, 12…

All release versions of 10.3 (I'm currently using 10.3.183.19) and 11.1 that I tried worked. No versions of 11.2 work. If that's not good enough for you, as reported in the bug these versions do work:

• 10.3.183.18
• 11.1.102.55
• 11.1.102.63

(As stated above, 10.3.183.19 also works.) These versions do not work:

• 11.2.202.228
• 11.2.202.233

[fudgeyum]

https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3161034

[fudgeyum]

ping

[fudgeyum]

In re https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-18.html: any update on currently shafted and vulnerable Linux users?

[chris.campbell]

Our Linux version was also updated to 11.2.202.238

[fudgeyum]

Chris, here's a synopsis of the thread: 11.2 does not work. Here's an update: 11.2.202.238 also does not work.

[chris.campbell]

Thank you for the update on 11.2, and I'm sorry it's not working for you.  The bug is currently marked To Test/Cannot Reproduce, I'll ask the team if there's specific info they need to continue.

While it doesn't contain all of the latest features, 10.3.183.23 is up to date with security patches.

[fudgeyum]

Following up on mhodak's reply to https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3154276, it does look like libflashplayer.so was compiled for SSE2, which is not supported by Athlon XP CPUs.

[jgotts]

The problem is considerably worse than that. The current libflashplayer.so doesn't run on any 32-bit AMD processors. SSE2 was only added to 64-bit AMD processors.

So a giant installed base is currently out of luck. I think Adobe can rectify the problem.

[jgotts]

Excerpted from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2

The following CPUs implemented IA-32 after SSE2 was developed, but did not implement SSE2:

• AMD CPUs prior to Athlon 64, including all Socket A-based CPUs
• Intel CPUs prior to Pentium 4
• VIA C3
• Transmeta Crusoe

[fudgeyum]

11.2.202.233 also fails