Flash

[foampile]

I am having Flash issues even though the system reports it as properly installed.

The issue best manifests itself on FB. When I want to view a youtube video on FB and click play, I get the message:

Flash Player upgrade required
You must download and install the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to view this content.

Hitting "Get Flash Player" takes me to the adobe page where I download RPM adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm. I installed it by double-clicking from the Files file browser but FB feed youtube vids still show the same issue. Even after rebooting.

I was wondering if something needs to be set manually withing Firefox to let it know that there is Flash installed.

Thanks

---------- Post added at 07:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:26 AM ----------

or should i try installing it from terminal ?

---------- Post added at 07:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:29 AM ----------

Oh, let me add that videos play fine on the YouTube site. However, Vimeo reports that an Flash upgrade is required.

[Dangermouse]

Looks like you havent installed flash to me, just the repo, type this in a terminal then restart firefox

su -c 'yum install flash-plugin'

[foampile]

that was it. thanks, mate

[Uvenata]

I ran the above program and still have an error. I am new to Linux and was wondering if someone could explain the following in somewhat mroe English. This is what I am getting:


Summary:

SELinux is preventing /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox from loading
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so which requires text relocation.

Detailed Description:

The firefox application attempted to load
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so which requires text relocation. This is
a potential security problem. Most libraries do not need this permission.
Libraries are sometimes coded incorrectly and request this permission. The
SELinux Memory Protection Tests
(http://people.redhat.com/drepper/selinux-mem.html) web page explains how to
remove this requirement. You can configure SELinux temporarily to allow
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so to use relocation as a workaround, until
the library is fixed. Please file a bug report.

Allowing Access:

If you trust /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so to run correctly, you can
change the file context to textrel_shlib_t. "chcon -t textrel_shlib_t
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so'" You must also change the default file
context files on the system in order to preserve them even on a full relabel.
"semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so'"

Fix Command:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so'

Additional Information:

Source Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1
023
Target Context system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0
Target Objects /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so [ file ]
Source plugin-config
Source Path /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config
Port <Unknown>
Host WilliamLaptop
Source RPM Packages firefox-3.6.3-4.fc13
Target RPM Packages flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-release
Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.7.19-101.fc13
Selinux Enabled True
Policy Type targeted
Enforcing Mode Enforcing
Plugin Name allow_execmod
Host Name WilliamLaptop
Platform Linux WilliamLaptop 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686 #1 SMP
Thu May 6 18:44:12 UTC 2010 i686 i686
Alert Count 106
First Seen Mon 05 Mar 2012 11:55:38 AM CST
Last Seen Mon 19 Mar 2012 02:15:51 PM CDT
Local ID 8b241ecb-a504-4711-bce9-7d3bdf4dab9d
Line Numbers

Raw Audit Messages

node=WilliamLaptop type=AVC msg=audit(1332184551.628:23806): avc: denied { execmod } for pid=3375 comm="firefox" path="/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so" dev=sda8 ino=131436 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0 tclass=file

node=WilliamLaptop type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1332184551.628:23806): arch=40000003 syscall=125 success=no exit=-13 a0=a34cb000 a1=fc8000 a2=5 a3=bfd5a5e0 items=0 ppid=3358 pid=3375 auid=500 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=(none) ses=1 comm="firefox" exe="/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

[nonamedotc]

Originally Posted by Uvenata

SELinux is preventing /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox from loading
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so which requires text relocation.

Detailed Description:

The firefox application attempted to load
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so which requires text relocation. This is
a potential security problem. Most libraries do not need this permission.
Libraries are sometimes coded incorrectly and request this permission. The
SELinux Memory Protection Tests
(http://people.redhat.com/drepper/selinux-mem.html) web page explains how to
remove this requirement. You can configure SELinux temporarily to allow
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so to use relocation as a workaround, until
the library is fixed. Please file a bug report.

Allowing Access:

If you trust /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so to run correctly, you can
change the file context to textrel_shlib_t. "chcon -t textrel_shlib_t
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so'" You must also change the default file
context files on the system in order to preserve them even on a full relabel.
"semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t
'/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so'"

Fix Command:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so'

The solution is marked in red above. I think that should fix it.

---------- Post added at 07:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:45 PM ----------

ah! Did not see pete's post above!

[pete_1967]

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