Subject: Re: NSpluginwrapper and -current
To: Henry Bent <hbent@cs.oberlin.edu>
From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 12/20/2007 20:56:51
On 20/12/2007, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/12/2007, Henry Bent <hbent@cs.oberlin.edu> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am running 4.99.17 i386 now (from early April) and would like to
> > upgrade to the latest -current.  However, I found that when I boot a
> > new kernel, without having updated userland yet, nspluginwrapper stops
> > working.  It says:
> >
> > *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side RPC
> > client connection
> > *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Initialize() invoke: Connection was
> > NULL
> >
> > I am running pkgsrc-2007Q3 fully updated, so I have
> > nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5, firefox-2.0.0.8, and all the latest patches of
> > the 10.0 SuSE compat stuff.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?  Will this behavior go away if I update my
> > userland?  I really don't want to do the upgrade until I am sure that it
> > will work.
>
> No, I am running -current - usually the kernel is not more than a week
> late - and nspluginwrapper works just fine. I do have the latest SuSE
> stuff, but Firefox is also followed with any minor upgrade, presently
> at 2.0.0.11.
>

I was too quick - - - some flash sites are working fine, i.e. youtube;
some - not; I am getting:

*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPClass::Invalidate() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed

and an npviewer.bin.core when I visit, say,

http://www.volvocars.co.uk/campaigns/Local/V70_Launch/default.htm

> For some reason, though, the latest flash upgade (Jeremy's patch from
> a few days ago AFAIR) stopped Opera from using it; firefox is fine.
>
> >
> > --
> > Henry Bent
> > hbent@cs.oberlin.edu
> >
>
>
> --

(Ignore the other message - thick fingers).
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