CentOS - Apr 2009 - flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

Updated yesterday to the latest firefox from CentOS, and now RPMforge
flash-plugin will only play a few seconds of video (such as CNN,
iReport, etc.) at a time before becoming stuck; dragging the slider
back a little allows it to play a bit further, but then it stops
again.  YouTube plays the video without sticking, but has no sound.

glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin or any
of the newer modules from the Adobe repo.

Has anyone else seen something like this?  I've had problems with the
sound device before on this machine, which occasionally caused flash
to get *entirely* stuck, so (based on no sound on YouTube) I'm going
to try rebooting to see if that may be a factor here; but I've never
had this particular symptom before.

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Updated yesterday to the latest firefox from CentOS, and now RPMforge
> flash-plugin will only play a few seconds of video (such as CNN,
> iReport, etc.) at a time before becoming stuck; dragging the slider
> back a little allows it to play a bit further, but then it stops
> again.  YouTube plays the video without sticking, but has no sound.
>
> glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin or any
> of the newer modules from the Adobe repo.
>
> Has anyone else seen something like this?  I've had problems with the
> sound device before on this machine, which occasionally caused flash
> to get *entirely* stuck, so (based on no sound on YouTube) I'm going
> to try rebooting to see if that may be a factor here; but I've never
> had this particular symptom before.
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>   
Hi Bart,
why the old flash version?
adobe now has flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.src.rpm
and this works fine but must have curl installed!!
HTH
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> > Updated yesterday to the latest firefox from CentOS, and now RPMforge
> > flash-plugin will only play a few seconds of video (such as CNN,
> > iReport, etc.) at a time before becoming stuck; dragging the slider
> > back a little allows it to play a bit further, but then it stops
> > again.  YouTube plays the video without sticking, but has no sound.
> >
> > glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin or any
> > of the newer modules from the Adobe repo.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen something like this?  I've had problems with
the
> > sound device before on this machine, which occasionally caused flash
> > to get *entirely* stuck, so (based on no sound on YouTube) I'm
going
> > to try rebooting to see if that may be a factor here; but I've
never
> > had this particular symptom before.
> > _______________________________________________
> > CentOS mailing list
> > CentOS at centos.org
> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
> >   
> Hi Bart,
> why the old flash version?
> adobe now has flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.src.rpm
> and this works fine but must have curl installed!!
> HTH
Thanks for this hint, Rob.
curl for both archs is needed for flash-plugin to work on 64-bit.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Bart Schaefer
<barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm going
> to try rebooting to see if that may be a factor here; but I've never
> had this particular symptom before.
Reboot did in fact clear it up, so it must have been some kind of device issue.