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FS#10957 - Firefox 3.0.1 Missing Plugins

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kristaps Esterlins (esters_) - Saturday, 19 July 2008, 14:50 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 21 July 2008, 14:21 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

After the upgrade of Firefox to version 3.0.1-1, plugins aren't showing (via about:plugins), although they are in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins


Additional info:
* package version(s) - firefox 3.0.1-1

ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
libflashplayer.so mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
libjavaplugin_oji.so mplayerplug-in-rm.so
libnpsoplugin.so mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so mplayerplug-in.so
mplayerplug-in-dvx.so mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
mplayerplug-in-qt.so mplayerplug-in.xpt


   Screenshot-About Plugins - Gr... (46.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Greg (dolby)
Monday, 21 July 2008, 14:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Alessandro Doro (adoroo) - Sunday, 20 July 2008, 00:43 GMT
Are the plugins working?
You could try to remove the file pluginreg.dat in ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile_folder> (backup first if you want).
When firefox restarts the plugins database is rebuilt. This should solve the problem, assuming everything else is ok.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 20 July 2008, 01:04 GMT
Works fine here. Where's your MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH set to, and do you have permissions to read and execute the folder containing the plugins?
Comment by Kristaps Esterlins (esters_) - Sunday, 20 July 2008, 10:10 GMT
Adoroo - your fix works, now everything is as it should be, thanks a lot :)
JGC - $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
bash: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins: No such file or directory

I'm not sure about the permissions they are -rwxr-xr-x root:root (I think that is ok)
Comment by Alessandro Doro (adoroo) - Sunday, 20 July 2008, 10:55 GMT
Well.
Anyway I hadn't the problem while upgrading to 3.0.1-1 neither in the previous upgrades, if I remember well.
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH and permissions are ok.

Here it is my upgrade path (i686 architecture, LOCALE="it_IT.utf8"):

[2008-05-13 19:36] installed firefox (2.0.0.14-1)
[""""""""""""""""] installed firefox-i18n (2.0.0.14-1)
[2008-05-27 17:03] installed xulrunner (1.8.1.13-1)
[2008-06-09 20:28] upgraded xulrunner (1.8.1.13-1 -> 1.8.1.14-2)
[2008-06-22 19:07] removed firefox-i18n (2.0.0.14-1) * the updated package wasn't ready soon
[""""""""""""""""] upgraded xulrunner (1.8.1.14-2 -> 1.9-1)
[""""""""""""""""] upgraded firefox (2.0.0.14-1 -> 3.0-1)
[2008-06-23 19:45] installed firefox-i18n (3.0-1)
[2008-06-30 13:30] upgraded firefox (3.0-1 -> 3.0-2)
[2008-07-19 04:31] upgraded xulrunner (1.9-1 -> 1.9.0.1-1)
[""""""""""""""""] upgraded firefox (3.0-2 -> 3.0.1-1)
[""""""""""""""""] upgraded firefox-i18n (3.0-1 -> 3.0.1-1)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 21 July 2008, 06:52 GMT
So after removing the invalid pluginreg.dat file from your profile this works?

I won't add procedures to packages that touch files in your home directory, so if removing the pluginreg.dat file fixes your problem, I'll close this as not a bug or wontfix.
Comment by Kristaps Esterlins (esters_) - Monday, 21 July 2008, 14:12 GMT
JGC - Yes, when I removed the pluginreg.dat file from ~/.mozzila/firefox/<profile> folder the plugins appeared in the about:plugins list and everything works, you can close this bug :)

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