no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome

Sat Mar 30 20:55:44 UTC 2013

That is really a mind-blower.  Neither firefox nor chromium nor chrome (with a built-in flash player) can load the flash plugin, either as installed according to adobe instructions or via apt-get.  There's no messages that can point to the cause of the error, also not in dmesg or /var/log/messages.

Is there any other browser available for linux which will play flash?

________________________________
 From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
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 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: no luck with flash with either firefox or chrome

On 30 March 2013 17:33, Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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....

Can you not just scroll down and insert at appropriate point?

>
> 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).

I think maybe when you installed you did not check the box that says
to install non-free components (like flash).
I think also you did not install chromium browser from the Ubuntu
repository either as I would have expected it to be installed in
/usr/bin

$ which chromium-browser
/usr/bin/chromium-browser

It is installed using
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
or looking for chromium browser in software centre.

I think as soon as you start installing things by hand then it can get
problematic.  Not much help I know, sorry.

Colin

> ________________________________
> 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?
>
> [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()
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
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> Hal
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