no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome

[Charles Smith]

Thank you for your response.

Sorry, I can't reply directly to your points, because yahoo's totally trashy interface no longer allows indented quoted messages....

I'm sure that it's chrome I installed (chromium isn't the OS?):

$ ls /opt/google/chrome
PepperFlash             libpdf.so                       product_logo_22.png
chrome                  libppGoogleNaClPluginChrome.so  product_logo_24.png
chrome-sandbox          libwidevinecdm.so               product_logo_256.png
chrome.pak              libwidevinecdmadapter.so        product_logo_32.png
chrome_100_percent.pak  locales                         product_logo_32.xpm
cron                    nacl_helper                     product_logo_48.png
default-app-block       nacl_helper_bootstrap           product_logo_64.png
default_apps            nacl_irt_x86_32.nexe            resources.pak
google-chrome           nacl_irt_x86_64.nexe            xdg-mime
google-chrome.desktop   product_logo_128.png            xdg-settings
libffmpegsumo.so        product_logo_16.png



You're right, I wish I hadn't mixed the tarball and the apt-get but I didn't know about flash-installer or whatever it was - I tried apt-get install flash and it came up with nothing.  Now I don't know if the tarball installation has left any artifacts laying around (I removed the .so).  It still doesn't work, no change in symptoms, even with the flash-installer installed.

Can other people use a browser with Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS?  (silly question, but I don't know what I did unusual.  And I'm anyway blown away that a browser isn't preinstalled).

cts



________________________________
 From: Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net>
To: Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com>; "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome
 



On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com> wrote:

Can anybody make anything out of these messages from chrome?
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>[17204:17226:0330/170703:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
>[17204:17226:0330/170703:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(624)] Failed to get name owner. Got org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.chromium.Mtpd': no such name
>[17204:17204:0330/170705:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(529)] Failed to call method: org.chromium.Mtpd.EnumerateStorages: object_path= /org/chromium/Mtpd: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.chromium.Mtpd was not provided by any .service files
>[17204:17204:0330/170710:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
>[17204:17204:0330/170715:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
>[16:16:0330/170734:ERROR:webplugin_delegate_proxy.cc(380)] PluginMsg_Init returned false
>[16:16:0330/170734:ERROR:webplugin_impl.cc(252)] Couldn't initialize plug-in
>[16:16:0330/170736:ERROR:webplugin_delegate_proxy.cc(380)] PluginMsg_Init returned false
>[16:16:0330/170736:ERROR:webplugin_impl.cc(252)] Couldn't initialize plug-in
>[17204:17204:0330/170747:ERROR:omnibox_view_gtk.cc(431)] Not implemented reached in virtual void OmniboxViewGtk::ApplyCaretVisibility()
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Are you sure you've installed Google Chrome and not chromium (related but different beasts)? Your initial instincts were correct, it should just "work", at least with Google Chrome, which has flash included (I don't think chromium does, but I don't use it, so ...).  

Also, I would suggest not mix and matching apt package installed stuff with tarballs. If the gods are against you, things could get messy. 

-- 
Hal 
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