64-bit flash no longer produces sound

[David C. Curtis]

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 04:19 +0300, Janne Jokitalo wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> noticed two flash updates during the last couple of days. I had my chrome open
> for several days, so am not sure when the symptom actually started, but after a
> reboot, flash videos no longer produce sound. This can be also verified by
> indicator-sound-service, which says "No application is playing or recording
> audio" when a flash video is being played.
> 
> Sound works, though, which I verified with both spotify and rhythmbox.
> 
> Besides chrome failing to play audio, so do both firefox and opera.
> 
> The system is a Natty (11.04) 64-bit vanilla Ubuntu plus Ubuntu Studio packages
> installed on top.
> 
> Does anyone else have these problems? Or did I accidentally configure my system
> broken, in a manner I can't even comprehend? :)
> 
> 
> 
Not exactly, recent updates broke flash completely in firefox for me. I
don't use chrome, and I'm 32-bit. About:plugins in firefox showed no
Flash.

A re-install of the package 'flashplugin-installer' fixed the issue. 

Dave