Nuvola Apps Runtime (Nuvola Player)

Flashplugin not working correctly

Asked by John Roca

Running Elementary OS, with all required PPAs enabled.. I use Google Play Music, and all was fine.. it was working fine, then recently I went to use it and the left sidebar that had the Listen Now and My Library tabs.. had the text greyed out.. like I couldn't click any of it.. so I rebooted and same.

 I tried a theory and unchecked the load flash plugin, got past the warning screens.. and it was exactly the same experience I was having before.. so I rechecked the load flash plugin, and the same experience.. basically it's acting as if the flash isn't usable, but there's no download flash toast.. none of the center screen fills with artists or contextual music choices like normal.. I tried uninstalling it all, and I did seem to have unmet dependency issues with apt-get, but I would try to install those and it would say they were there already.. so I would try with aptitude and it would install fine :/

now, there is something odd, it seems to say it's holding back upgrades for nspluginviewer:i386 and nspluginwrapper .. and I figured this somehow is affecting me.. but I've tried everything to force those and it keeps holding them back.. it also shoots me (when I try to install certain packages with apt-get) something about unmet dependencies and that I've held broken packages, and I go to fix it and there's nothing there: synaptic says it's fine. Prime example, even though I have nspluginviewer:i386, it says I don't have nspluginviewer , so I "sudo apt-get install nspluginviewer" and I get this .

"nyhtshade@nyhtshade-p6-2107c:~$ sudo apt-get install nspluginviewer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nspluginviewer:i386 : Depends: libfontconfig1:i386 (>= 2.9.0) but 2.8.0-3ubuntu9.1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
nyhtshade@nyhtshade-p6-2107c:~$ sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libfontconfig1:i386 is already the newest version.
libfontconfig1:i386 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
nyhtshade@nyhtshade-p6-2107c:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  nspluginviewer:i386 nspluginwrapper
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded."

Aptitude gives me little to no issues (granted I think it installs previous packages, but they get installed) .. and as you can see, it claims I have both files installed, but if I go to, say install them again.. I get unmet dependencies (I think that's for the upgraded versions) and I try to meet the dependencies, only to get a runaround. I'm not sure if this is something that's singled out for my specific OS (Elementary OS Luna) but I figured there could be a way to get the plugin back to working status since it was working just fine earlier, and then lock it through synaptic or something. Or if I'm missing something, because as I said it was just fine; no errors, no slowdown, it was beautiful man. And then, nothing. It just stops.

any help would be greatly appreciated. Granted I don't have a lot of tech progs installed at the moment since I just freshly baked this OS on my HDD, but I'll gladly do whatever might be necessary to help with this.

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John Roca (jemilroca182k) said : 		#1

I did want to add this to the mix.. I uninstalled nuvolaplayer-flashplugin again, just sifting through the output. Uninstall went normal, but I reinstalled it after rebooting and got this..

"nyhtshade@nyhtshade-p6-2107c:~$ sudo aptitude install nuvolaplayer-flashplugin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nspluginwrapper{ab} nuvolaplayer-flashplugin
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 118 kB/124 kB of archives. After unpacking 280 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nspluginwrapper : Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0) but 2.8.0-3ubuntu9.1 is installed.
                   Depends: nspluginviewer (= 1.4.4-0ubuntu5.12~wheezy1) which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) nspluginwrapper [Not Installed]
2) nuvolaplayer-flashplugin [Not Installed]

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Install the following packages:
1) nspluginviewer:i386 [1.4.4-0ubuntu4 (precise)]
2) nspluginwrapper [1.4.4-0ubuntu4 (precise)]

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nspluginviewer:i386{a} nspluginwrapper{a} nuvolaplayer-flashplugin
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/207 kB of archives. After unpacking 594 kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Selecting previously unselected package nspluginviewer:i386.
(Reading database ... 217747 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nspluginviewer:i386 (from .../nspluginviewer_1.4.4-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package nspluginwrapper.
Unpacking nspluginwrapper (from .../nspluginwrapper_1.4.4-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package nuvolaplayer-flashplugin.
Unpacking nuvolaplayer-flashplugin (from .../nuvolaplayer-flashplugin_0.6-0fenryxo1~wheezy1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nspluginviewer:i386 (1.4.4-0ubuntu4) ...
Setting up nspluginwrapper (1.4.4-0ubuntu4) ...
plugin dirs:
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /root/.mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /root/.mozilla/plugins
Setting up nuvolaplayer-flashplugin (0.6-0fenryxo1~wheezy1) ...
--2014-05-01 04:52:04-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/
Resolving archive.canonical.com (archive.canonical.com)... 91.189.92.191, 91.189.92.150, 2001:67c:1360:8c01::16, ...
Connecting to archive.canonical.com (archive.canonical.com)|91.189.92.191|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `STDOUT'

    [ <=> ] 37,387 98.9K/s in 0.4s

2014-05-01 04:52:04 (98.9 KB/s) - written to stdout [37387]

[INFO] Using cached Flash from /var/cache/nuvolaplayer-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.356.orig.tar.gz
[INFO] Extracting Flash
[INFO] Found adobe-flashplugin-11.2.202.356/i386/libflashplayer.so
[INFO] Removing unused files
[INFO] Wrapping Flash plugin
Install plugin /opt/nuvolaplayer/flash/orig/libflashplayer.so
  into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
And create symlink to plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: failed!
And create symlink to plugin in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins: failed!
[INFO] Installing wrapped Flash to /opt/nuvolaplayer/flash/wrapped/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
[INFO] Done. You have to restart Nuvola Player in order to use this plugin."

I was curious about the output of
"Install plugin /opt/nuvolaplayer/flash/orig/libflashplayer.so
  into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
And create symlink to plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: failed!
And create symlink to plugin in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins: failed!"

could that be a significant reason it's not working, and if so how could I fix that. Just wanted to say I found some more info..

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Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo) said : 		#2

Hi. Could you look at bug #1314753? It might be the same issue rather than a flash plugin problem.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nuvola-player/+bug/1314753

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John Roca (jemilroca182k) said : 		#3

and just like that. it works again. Thank you. I seriously love this player, mostly because I solely use GPM to the point I have All Access. But also, the other feature, a new one that says it creates a mini player in chrome. I enabled that just to experiment. It does NOTHING in chrome on linux (Think it might use the notification icon in windows) but Nuvola still works with it. So, if you're dual boot, like me. It seems that you might still be able to use that on windows. BUT, I'm rarely in windows anymore as it is. Just wanted to let you know, it works again.