CentOS - Jul 2008 - nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely

I was wondering if anyone else had this problem.

I run CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on my workstation at home.  Since 5.2 came out
with nepluginwrapper bundled into it, none of my plugins work.  I
thought it was just a problem with the flash plugin, but neither the
mplayerplug-in plugins nor the adobe acrobat reader plugin work,
either.

I have this problem both with the Seamonkey contributed 64-bit build
and my own (otherwise perfectly working) native build of the 2.01a
pre-release trunk build (which I have been using since January, with
occasional updates, the most recent being about a week ago).

I have not tried going back to the 32-bit release of Seamonkey,
although I suppose that's next.  I stopped using that when it kept
crashing when I tried to save a web page after having visited some
unknown threshold level of pages (i.e., it wouldn't do this on the
first or second web page, but somewhere down the line, a threshold was
crossed and it would crash fairly regularly).  In discussions with the
Mozilla folks, I concluded that the problem had something to do with
running the 32-bit release on my 64-bit OS.  Due to some peculiarity
in the 1.x Mozilla build process, I was never able to build a 64-bit
version of the 1.x releases, but I had no trouble running the L&G
not-yet-released revision, with occasional glitches from the bugs that
I ran into (and reported).

But, back to the point:

There are two major issues I have with the 5.2 bundled nspluginwrapper:

1) The nspluginwrapper program itself is gone, which makes it a little
(lot) harder to manage and troubleshoot the problems.

and, more importantly:

2) None of the 32-bit plugins that are supposed to be wrapped work.  Period.

Is this something I should report in bugzilla, at CentOS (and
upstream)?  I didn't see it in the bugs listed at CentOS.org.

Thanks.

mhr

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:18 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone else had this problem.
>
> I run CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on my workstation at home.  Since 5.2 came out
> with nepluginwrapper bundled into it, none of my plugins work.  I
> thought it was just a problem with the flash plugin, but neither the
> mplayerplug-in plugins nor the adobe acrobat reader plugin work,
> either.
<snip>
I am running the 32 bit kernel on my Desktop and I do *NOT* have that
problem. Is that limited to the
64 bit kernel or to your box? After I did the huge update to CentOS
5.2, everything continued to work
in Firefox 3.0. As I write this, I am listening on Streamaudio.com to
KOOL 97.3 (KEAG-FM)
in Anchorage, AK which uses mplayer.

Possibly you should install the 32 bit version of Firefox and the Plug
Ins, if they are not already
installed?

> I run CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on my workstation at home.  Since 5.2 came out
> with nepluginwrapper bundled into it, none of my plugins work.  I
> thought it was just a problem with the flash plugin, but neither the
> mplayerplug-in plugins nor the adobe acrobat reader plugin work,
> either.
I have no problems with 32-bit flash and 64-bit mplayer plugins in 64-bit
Firefox.
Haven't tried adobe acrobat yet.

For flash plugin to work with 64-bit browser you need to install
both x86_64 and i386 versions of nspluginwrapper with all the dependencies
and run mozilla-plugin-config -i