CentOS - May 2012 - 200 Stream not found errors in flash player and firefox

Hi List,
I have been getting the above errors for the last few months and 
extensive google foo has been less than conclusive - but indicates that 
the requesting flash player is somehow putting the wrong url content 
into the request.

After I recently did a yum update on my wife's laptop she too started 
getting these errors. She has an old sony laptop running 5.8 and other 
than this error on various streaming tv links it is working just fine. 
Needless to say, she is less than thrilled with my IT skills at this 
point as she can no longer watch her favourite TV programs.

So I decided to try and track down the problem on my own machine (CentOS 
6.2) where yumex allows you to see and load older versions of a package.
I started with a downgrade (and then a 2nd one .... and then the 5th 
one) of libflashplayer.so - fortunately rpmforge has older versions. 
Going right back to a 10.x version did not fix the problem. Thus I guess 
it is a firefox / xulrunner problem, however I am not happy to go back 
too many versions here as the exploit potential is much higher.

Then I tried konqueror with flash enabled and guess what - no problems 
with any of the links that fail under firefox / libflashplayer.

So my question to the list members - does anyone else have this problem 
with flash under firefox?? What do I do to fix it?
TIA
Rob

Rob, what are you doing to get the error message?  I.e., what command or 
application are you invoking and where does the "200 Stream...." error
appear?

I've been having problems with flashplayer also-- for a long time and 
over many upgrades.  When, using firefox, I visit a site which invokes 
flashplayer, the cpu load begins to increase.... it can go from 0.4 to 
6.8.  If I then close the tab to that site, the cpu load goes back down 
to where it was.  I've talked with friends who use Mac OS X and Windows 
and they both experience similar problems with flashplayer, so I always 
assumed it was something in flash.

On 05/21/2012 11:09 PM Rob Kampen wrote:
> Hi List,
> I have been getting the above errors for the last few months and
> extensive google foo has been less than conclusive - but indicates that
> the requesting flash player is somehow putting the wrong url content
> into the request.
>
> After I recently did a yum update on my wife's laptop she too started
> getting these errors. She has an old sony laptop running 5.8 and other
> than this error on various streaming tv links it is working just fine.
> Needless to say, she is less than thrilled with my IT skills at this
> point as she can no longer watch her favourite TV programs.
>
> So I decided to try and track down the problem on my own machine (CentOS
> 6.2) where yumex allows you to see and load older versions of a package.
> I started with a downgrade (and then a 2nd one .... and then the 5th
> one) of libflashplayer.so - fortunately rpmforge has older versions.
> Going right back to a 10.x version did not fix the problem. Thus I guess
> it is a firefox / xulrunner problem, however I am not happy to go back
> too many versions here as the exploit potential is much higher.
>
> Then I tried konqueror with flash enabled and guess what - no problems
> with any of the links that fail under firefox / libflashplayer.
>
> So my question to the list members - does anyone else have this problem
> with flash under firefox?? What do I do to fix it?
> TIA
> Rob
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