From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 23:18:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCB11065676; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:18:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from gwyn.kn-bremen.de (gwyn.kn-bremen.de [212.63.36.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E463C8FC0C; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:18:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: by gwyn.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 19ABD191A4C; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:18:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9UMrY2i014740; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:53:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.14.2/8.13.6/Submit) id m9UMrXdF014739; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:53:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:53:33 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <200810302253.m9UMrXdF014739@saturn.kn-bremen.de> To: korvus@comcast.net X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.emulation In-Reply-To: <49086F1A.2090500@comcast.net> References: <200810280859.24048@aldan> <20081028181731.GA30591@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Organization: home Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: flash9 checklist X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:18:29 -0000 In article <49086F1A.2090500@comcast.net> you write: >Juergen Lock wrote: >> >> Preliminary checklist for getting flash9 to work in native firefox: >> (flash10 needs more ports work, I shall post about that seperately on >> -emulation...) If you have additions to this please post a followup to >> this thread, keeping the Cc: (I'm not on -questions...) >> >> 1. You need RELENG_7 from at least Mon Oct 20 11:15:57 2008 UTC >> (the relevant MFC commits are: >> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=183819 >> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=184075 >> - a recent HEAD should also work of course.) There are linprocfs patches >> for RELENG_6 too (merging the former commit), but the latter commit can't >> be merged to 6 (and 7.0) since they lack the cpuset bits, so flash9 >> probably won't work on SMP there. (Although if you have SMP you probably >> should be running 7 anyway. :) Oh and if you do have SMP you also need to >> use the ULE scheduler, the cpuset syscalls are not supported with 4BSD. >> linprocfs patches for 6: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.3.patch >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/linprocfs-6.4.patch >> >> 2. Your portstree needs to be from at least Sun Oct 19 17:37:28 2008 UTC >> (the last www/linux-flashplugin9 commit is: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2008-October/158404.html >> ) >> >> 3. Make sure linprocfs is mounted to /compat/linux/proc . >> >> 4. Make sure www/nspluginwrapper, www/linux-flashplugin9 and dependencies >> are installed and up to date(!). (the default emulators/linux_base-fc4 >> should work, if you want to use a later one don't forget to set >> compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 in sysctl.conf and OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT >> to whichever version you use in make.conf. Note however that on 6, only >> the default compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2 really works.) >> >> 5. If the plugin doesnt show up in firefox' about:plugins, run >> nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so >> and restart firefox. >> >> 6. And remember there's a security advisory for the current version of >> flash9, >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/78f456fd-9c87-11dd-a55e-00163e000016.html >> (if you use portaudit you need to `make -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES ...' >> to be able to install the port), and fc4 seems to be eol'd too, so you >> probably want to install something like the noscript firefox extension, >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 >> and only allow plugins (and scripts, tho thats a different problem) on >> sites you trust... >> >> And finally, if you still get crashes after following the above even >> on pages that are reported to work now (like youtube) you probably want >> to run `ktrace -di firefox...' and look at the output using linux_kdump >> (thats the devel/linux_kdump port, you want to use a package), paying >> specific attention to the lines above `PSIG SIGSEGV' (or whichever >> signal you got), maybe there are still shlibs missing that the plugin >> needs (NAMI ...something.so...), and if this is the case tell us about >> it so the appropriate dependencies can be added to the relevant ports. >> If you can't figure it out I guess it doesn't hurt to post the last >> few 100 lines of the dump up to the relevant PSIG on -emulation... >> >> You may also want to check linked shlibs like this: >> /compat/linux/bin/sh /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so >> and >> /compat/linux/bin/sh /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin >> (if you see `not found' in there you know something is wrong) - although >> that doesn't show libs that may be dlopen()d at runtime. >> >> >Thanks for this. I was able to get linux-flashplugin9 working in native >Firefox 3.0.3 on FreeBSD 7-STABLE i386. The only additional thing I had >to do was copy >/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so into >~/.mozilla/plugins/ for Firefox to recognize the plugin. Yeah I forgot to note that you want to run nspluginwrapper -i as the user that will run the native browser, not as root, then the wrapper will go into ~/.mozilla/plugins/... > After that >Youtube, google video, and google maps (incl. street view) work fine, >but slow. A friend of mine with a very similar setup was not so lucky >and still has problems with flash9 locking up FF. Hmm, lockups I haven't seen yet here. HTH, Juergen