After upgrade to latest version flash is not workning in firefox

Bug #125938 reported by Martin
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flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Mozilla Bugs

Bug Description

After upgrading to 9.0.48.0ubuntu1~7.04.0 flash is not workning in my browser. If I do a about:plugins I cannot find the flash plugin there.

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. Please open about:plugins amd save it as a file than attach it to this bug report please.

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree:
assignee: nobody → mozilla-bugs
status: New → Incomplete
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Martin (martin-wetterstedt) wrote :
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Dominic Sacré (dooooomi) wrote :

Same here. The problem seems to be that a previous version of the plugin was still in cache (presumably from 9.0.31), and the installer decided to use that instead of downloading the current version:

Unpacking replacement flashplugin-nonfree ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.48.0.0ubuntu1~7.04.0) ...
Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

Removing /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz and reinstalling flashplugin-nonfree fixed this for me. But anyone using Update Manager probably wouldn't even have noticed that anything went wrong during installation...

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

can you both please remove flash from system (sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree) than reinstall it with (sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree) Than make sure you restart all browsers that are open. Than please update this bug with new info on if it works or doesnt work.

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

What's the output from `dpkg -l flashplugin-nonfree|grep ^ii`

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

This is likely a dup of bug # 125989 but would like info on it first.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

The ubuntu1 feisty backport is broken, because it is a backport of the gutsy ubuntu1 that failed to update debian/config. I've already fixed this in gutsy's ubuntu2 (yesterday); it simply needs to be backported to feisty.

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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Martin (martin-wetterstedt) wrote :

I can just confirm that it is now working after reinstalling flashplugin according to above! Thanks!

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

martin what version of flashplugin-nonfree did it install? to find thsi our run apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree

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Martin (martin-wetterstedt) wrote :

This is the info I get out of apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree

flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installerad: 9.0.48.0.0ubuntu1~7.04.0
  Kandidat: 9.0.48.0.0ubuntu1~7.04.0
  Versionstabell:
 *** 9.0.48.0.0ubuntu1~7.04.0 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-proposed/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     9.0.31.0.2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Packages

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