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gw
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 Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:44 pm Post subject: SOLVED: Lost all my firefox plugins |
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Hi,
During my last update world, firefox was upgraded to www-client/firefox-3.6.9-r1.
Now all my plugins disappeared, about:plugins shows nothing.
Yet I also emerged flash and java, and plugins are there:
| Quote: | ll /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2. Apr 20:52 javaplugin.so -> //usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/sun-jdk-1.6-javaplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 24. Sep 12:11 libflashplayer.so -> /opt/Adobe/flash-player/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 24. Sep 04:16 nppdf.so -> /opt/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so
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But the new firefox version apparently wouldn't check this directory (plugins are only registered if I copy the files into ~/.mozilla/plugins, even symbolic linking to them doesn't work).
Fixes anyone?
thanks
gw
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johnlu
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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Same problem with www-client/firefox-3.6.9
I don't know what to do with this, I tried to re-emerge, to change USE related to adobe-flash, revedep-rebuild... |
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Xzarr
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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Had a simliar problem a short time back when this happened.
| Quote: | *adobe-flash-10.2.161.22_pre20100915 (17 Sep 2010)
17 Sep 2010; Jim Ramsay <lack@gentoo.org>
+adobe-flash-10.2.161.22_pre20100915.ebuild:
Adobe Square (10.2 now with 64-bit support!) pre-release (Bug #337542)
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Didn't work for me until I unmerged then emerged flash again. (No idea why it worked but it did) |
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johnlu
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Xzarr wrote: | Had a simliar problem a short time back when this happened.
| Quote: | *adobe-flash-10.2.161.22_pre20100915 (17 Sep 2010)
17 Sep 2010; Jim Ramsay <lack@gentoo.org>
+adobe-flash-10.2.161.22_pre20100915.ebuild:
Adobe Square (10.2 now with 64-bit support!) pre-release (Bug #337542)
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Didn't work for me until I unmerged then emerged flash again. (No idea why it worked but it did) |
This didn't work for me. |
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johnlu
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:43 am Post subject: |
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I solved this problem doing this:
| Code: | # emerge -Caq firefox-bin firefox
# rm -rf /usr/lib64/firefox
# emerge -q firefox |
Make sure that you don't have any files in /usr/lib64/firefox belonging to any installed app, if they are, unmerge those apps before deleting /usr/lib64/firefox.
I figure it out because when I emerged firefox, portage complained about:
| Quote: | * Detected file collision(s):
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* /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins
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* Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
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* Press Ctrl-C to Stop
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* None of the installed packages claim the file(s). |
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gw
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| johnlu wrote: | I solved this problem doing this:
| Code: | # emerge -Caq firefox-bin firefox
# rm -rf /usr/lib64/firefox
# emerge -q firefox |
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Thanks, but unfortunately re-emerging didn't help in my case.
What did help, was the following:
3.6.9-r1 introduced some weird incompatibility with regard to my local .mozilla. Erase every instance of pluginreg.dat under ~/.mozilla! I had several stray copies of it. Once all of them deleted, firefox registered all plugins of /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins.
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Cthulhu666
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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@gw: Thanks for the advice, it solved all my plugin problems. 
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