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Anonymous
April 22, 2009
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Flash 10.0.22.87 Solaris/Sparc broken for FF3 on SB2500

  • April 22, 2009
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If you try to run the latest flashplayer browser plugin in Firefox 3.0.8 on

a Sunblade 2500 running Solaris 10, the flashplayer plugin will not

be accepted. The error is "LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library

/usr/local/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so". I think the problem is that the

plugin requires the latest Sun Sparc hardware rather han being compiled

to be downward compatible. Note:

libflashplayer.so: ELF 32-bit MSB dynamic lib SPARC32PLUS Version 1, V8+

Required, UltraSPARC1 Extensions Required, dynamically linked, stripped

but its just a theory. Is there any workaround for this?

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    triskelios
    Participant
    April 29, 2009

    It shouldn't be a hardware problem, as the instruction set used by the binary is supported by all 64-bit SPARC processors.

    If you check the output from running Firefox in a terminal, the LoadPlugin message usually has more details in brackets.

    If not, run

    ldd /usr/local/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so

    and check if any library dependencies are missing.

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    Anonymous
    May 6, 2009

    Ok. LDD reports for the flash plugin

            libnss3.so =>    /usr/lib/mps/libnss3.so

            libnss3.so (NSS_3.11) =>         (version not found)

    and for Firefox 3 it reports

            libnss3.so =>    /usr/local/firefox/libnss3.so

    which, I think, means that I need a newer version of the libnss3 library. Cute. There are no

    updates from Sun for libnss3.so so I'll have to try using the FF one. The run-mozilla.sh

    script is supposed to set LD_LIBRARY to look /usr/local/firefox first for libraries, but

    perhaps plugins don't respect that.

    In any case, the libnss3.so in /usr/local/firefox has the string NSS_3.10.2 so it's

    not clear to me that even THAT one is recent enough.

    If a well patched Solaris 10 box has this problem. I expect most Solaris FF3 users

    will have an issue with the latest flash plugin. I'll play with it some more.

    Thanks.

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    triskelios
    Participant
    May 7, 2009

    The x86 build of the same Flash plugin doesn't seem to have a versioned dependency on libnss3.so, so the addition of the dependency may be an error in the build process. However I have checked Firefox on Solaris Express and OpenSolaris, and it does include a version of libnss3 with NSS_3.11.

    To check if your Firefox's libnss3 has the symbol:

    nm /usr/local/firefox/libnss3.so | grep NSS_3

    If it shows NSS_3.11 is present, the plugin is somehow loading the system libnss3.so instead. If the maximum version is still 3.10, and this is an official build of Firefox, file a bug with Adobe about removing the dependency on the NSS_3.11 symbol.

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    Anonymous
    April 28, 2009

    Basically, this happened when I upgraded from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 so it

    might be a firefox issue. The current plugin worked fine for F2. I even tried

    removing the pluginreg.dat file and reinstalling. No joy.

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