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Is this a full Slackware install with all the libraries that come with Slackware installed?
This is working fine for me with an up to date Slackware64-current, and the same versions of Flash and Firefox.
Thanks for all the ideas, I will try that SlackBuild and will check the installed libraries also. I installed every lib as far as I remember, but I will check it.
I'm not running Slackware64 with the slackbuild flash64 (it's just a binary repack, though), so at the risk of being beaten into a bloody pulp: my experience with flash 64 has been that it works on some sites and not others. Typically sites which care about their audience things work fine with. What I find notoriously bad are certain flash adverts which just kill my browser completely.
For others who are coming across flash-based problems, I would recommend you install a flash blocker into firefox if you need to use your machine (while diagnosing other problems, say ... ) and can't live without flash
In this instance, however, it seems unlikely that this will help the OPs problem.
My today results:
I removed the manually installed Flash plugin from ~/.mozilla/plugins and installed the SlackBuild from /extra. The Firefox still crashed with segfault. After that I checked the "l" section packages and I stated every package of this category is installed on my system, so this is not the reason. During this checking I downloaded a page from a Slackware mirror by "curl" and got this message:
curl: error while loading shared libraries: libsasl2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
I installed the "cyrus-sasl" package and I got a working "curl" and additionally a working Firefox together with a Flash player!
Thank you very much for the tips and the help!
Finally I checked the "curl":
$ objdump -x /usr/bin/curl | grep NEEDED | grep sasl
NEEDED libsasl2.so.2
$
and the Firefox also:
$ objdump -x /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.10/firefox-bin | grep NEEDED | grep sasl
$
So the "curl" knows their needs of "sasl", while Firefox doesn't; therefore the "curl" writes an error message when this lib is not on the system but the Firefox doesn't, the result is only a silent segfault. Why is this...?
My problem is definitely smaller now: I have a working Flash player, but I have no sound in that at all. I used this page for checking, but others don't work also. Any idea? (My user is in the "audio" group and the sound works on the system in all applications except the Flash.)
My today results:
I removed the manually installed Flash plugin from ~/.mozilla/plugins and installed the SlackBuild from /extra. The Firefox still crashed with segfault. After that I checked the "l" section packages and I stated every package of this category is installed on my system, so this is not the reason. During this checking I downloaded a page from a Slackware mirror by "curl" and got this message:
curl: error while loading shared libraries: libsasl2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
I installed the "cyrus-sasl" package and I got a working "curl" and additionally a working Firefox together with a Flash player!
Thank you very much for the tips and the help!
Finally I checked the "curl":
$ objdump -x /usr/bin/curl | grep NEEDED | grep sasl
NEEDED libsasl2.so.2
$
and the Firefox also:
$ objdump -x /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.10/firefox-bin | grep NEEDED | grep sasl
$
So the "curl" knows their needs of "sasl", while Firefox doesn't; therefore the "curl" writes an error message when this lib is not on the system but the Firefox doesn't, the result is only a silent segfault. Why is this...?
My problem is definitely smaller now: I have a working Flash player, but I have no sound in that at all. I used this page for checking, but others don't work also. Any idea? (My user is in the "audio" group and the sound works on the system in all applications except the Flash.)
Well, I checked the link you provided and .... I hear very pleasant sound of nature.
I use slackware64-current. During install I chose all the groups of software besides KDEI and "full" option.
I only see the possibility that you are missing some libs or you have some chanels muted on your computer. try alsamixer from console.
I'm not running Slackware64 with the slackbuild flash64 (it's just a binary repack, though), so at the risk of being beaten into a bloody pulp: my experience with flash 64 has been that it works on some sites and not others. Typically sites which care about their audience things work fine with. What I find notoriously bad are certain flash adverts which just kill my browser completely.
For others who are coming across flash-based problems, I would recommend you install a flash blocker into firefox if you need to use your machine (while diagnosing other problems, say ... ) and can't live without flash
In this instance, however, it seems unlikely that this will help the OPs problem.
- Piete.
I can agree, I use Adblock Plus and I block the flash ads also.
I'm not a flash fan, but my son likes some flash games.
And there are some webshops with product demo in flash video, unfortunately. I could live without flash anyway, I like the HTML/CSS/XML world better.
If you were missing that library, it's possible you are missing others.
If you are using slackpkg you could try:
$ slackpkg install-new
Yes, it's possible and I would like to discover what library/package needed exactly. I don't like to install everything, I omit those packages I know as unnecessary. "slackpkg install-new": already done.
Well, I checked the link you provided and .... I hear very pleasant sound of nature.
I use slackware64-current. During install I chose all the groups of software besides KDEI and "full" option.
I only see the possibility that you are missing some libs or you have some chanels muted on your computer. try alsamixer from console.
This is really a help for me: "I hear very pleasant sound of nature. I use slackware64-current.", because I know there exists solution, therefore I continue the investigation.
How could I clear up what libs I need exactly?
I have full "l" and "x" groups installed and the KDE plays the sounds very nicely. I will check the alsamixer, but I set it already properly as I can remember.
Well, I checked the link you provided and .... I hear very pleasant sound of nature.
I use slackware64-current. During install I chose all the groups of software besides KDEI and "full" option.
I only see the possibility that you are missing some libs or you have some chanels muted on your computer. try alsamixer from console.
Case is solved. You were right, my channel PCM was muted, I set only the Master and the Front last time. I hear the voices in Flash fine now.
I am so stupid, I am ashamed.
Thank you for all, for everyone!
I created a script to discover the library dependencies on my system:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
ECHO=/usr/bin/echo
SED=/usr/bin/sed
FILE=/usr/bin/file
CUT=/usr/bin/cut
LDD=/usr/bin/ldd
GREP=/usr/bin/grep
AWK=/usr/bin/awk
for p in `$ECHO $PATH | $SED 's/:/ /g'`
do
for f in $p/*
do
if [ 'ELF' == `$FILE -b $f | $CUT -d' ' -f1` ]; then
if $LDD $f | $GREP -q 'not found'; then
$ECHO "$f"
$LDD $f | $GREP 'not found' | $AWK '{print "Not found:", $1}'
fi
fi
done
done
I found some missing libraries by this (and searched the missing packages from MANIFEST.gz), so I have pasted to here, maybe it can be useful for others also.
Sorry for the code tags around about/colon/plugins. We previously had
a selection to not allow smiley faces in posts, but I don't see it
here. Maybe now it's just in our UserCP.
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