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mattiasvdm
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June 7, 2016
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Adobe Flash Player mms.cfg keeps resetting to default

  • June 7, 2016
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Operating system: Mac OS X 10.9 - 10.11

Flash Player 21.0.0.242

In our Mac environment we have auto update enabled for Flash Player, we accomplish this by deploying the mms.cfg file. The file is located on:

/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/mms.cfg

Contents of the file:

AutoUpdateDisable=0

SilentAutoUpdateEnable=1

AutoUpdateInterval=1

DisableProductDownload=0

SilentAutoUpdateVerboseLogging=0

This always worked perfectly until recently the Flash player wasn't updated anymore. I found out that the mms.cfg file was reset to:

AutoUpdateDisable=0

SilentAutoUpdateEnable=0

AutoUpdateInterval=1

DisableProductDownload=0

SilentAutoUpdateVerboseLogging=0

So, I redeployed the mms.cfg file to the environment. Everything worked fine until a couple of hours later it's back to default. I see that also the creation date of the file keeps changing to today.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Correct answer _maria_

I've made a note in the internal bug record to update this discussion when the bug fix is released.


To close the loop on this, the fix was released in the July release of Flash Player, 22.0.0.209.  Sorry, I forgot to update the discussion at that time.

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jeromiec83223024
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jeromiec83223024Community Manager
Community Manager
June 7, 2016

It sounds like there's a conflict in your environment, whereby some running job is resetting mms.cfg to a previous state.  I

Do you have any logging facilities that could tell you what process is writing to the file?

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mattiasvdmAuthor
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June 8, 2016

I did some more digging and it looks like the LaunchDaemon com.adobe.fpsaud.plist causes the problem. It runs every hour and when it does, the mms.cfg is being reset.

The LaunchDaemon runs the following file:

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash Player Install Manager/fpsaud

And indeed, when I run that file manually it resets the mms.cfg file every time.

~/Library/Logs/FlashPlayerInstallManager.log says on every run:

End SAU run with exit code: 2001

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mattiasvdmAuthor
Participant
June 8, 2016

Did some more digging

When I completely uninstall the flash player with the Flash Player Install Manager and then re-install it again, the problem is solved. The mms.cfg file will not be reset anymore.

Of course, I can't perform this action for all the Macs. So I started testing and I've narrowed it down to one file:

/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Flash\ Player\ Install\ Manager/FPSAUConfig.xml

If I remove and reinstall Flash, the contents of the file looks like this:

<SAU><CheckFrequency value="1"></CheckFrequency><UpdateAttempts value="0"></UpdateAttempts><LastCheck value="1465395327.630881"></LastCheck><LastAutoUpdateCheck value="0.000000"></LastAutoUpdateCheck></SAU>

When I look at the file on a Mac with this problem it looks like this:

<SAU><CheckFrequency value="1"></CheckFrequency><UpdateAttempts value="7"></UpdateAttempts><LastCheck value="1465395327.630881"></LastCheck><LastAutoUpdateCheck value="0.000000"></LastAutoUpdateCheck></SAU>

So the only difference is the UpdateAttempts value. When I change it to 7 and run the fpsaud file, it will reset the mms.cfg file. When I change it back to 0 everything works fine!

Hope someone can reproduce this problem...

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