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Siduction Forum => Upgrade Warnings => Topic started by: michaa7 on 2013/05/14, 23:15:19
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DE:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Dringende-Sicherheitspatches-fuer-ColdFusion-Adobe-Reader-Acrobat-und-Flash-1863078.html
EN:
I am sure there will be an analog advice here within the next hours:
http://www.h-online.com/
Here it is:
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Urgent-security-patches-for-ColdFusion-Adobe-Reader-Acrobat-and-Flash-1863234.html
update-flashplugin-nonfree -iv
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Thanks, I need these reminders.
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+1
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at some point in time i came to the conclusion that i need flash to be updated on regular basis, without my personal intervention.
after searching the web, i found this solution:
create the file /etc/cron.daily/flash and make it executable
add the following contents:
test -x /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree && /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree --install --quiet
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Thanks, absolut!
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Nice one -- thanks absolut!
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Are there more than me that have (intermittent) problems with flash in Iceweasel after latest flash-update?
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flash is per se a long lasting problem. And as long as you don't give us more specific info about why and how your problem is only *intermittent* we consider your problem *not solvable*.
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I see no problem with youtube videos, cnn.com, intellicast.com, etc. No problem in iceweasel, also no problem in chromium-browser. Possibly the problem is with some specific site(s)?
root@imerabox:/# apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree iceweasel chromium-browser
flashplugin-nonfree:
Installed: 1:3.2
Candidate: 1:3.2
Version table:
*** 1:3.2 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/contrib amd64 Packages
500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/contrib amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
iceweasel:
Installed: 17.0.6esr-1
Candidate: 17.0.6esr-1
Version table:
*** 17.0.6esr-1 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
chromium-browser:
Installed: 26.0.1410.43-1
Candidate: 26.0.1410.43-1
Version table:
*** 26.0.1410.43-1 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
20.0.1093.0~svn20120405r130901-0.sidcution.2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/experimental/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
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flash is per se a long lasting problem. And as long as you don't give us more specific info about why and how your problem is only *intermittent* we consider your problem *not solvable*.
For example this http://www.airasia.com/ot/en/where-we-fly/route-map.page? is not working for me, the map will only flicker och blink or whatever it is called, sometimes I can see the map but it doesn't work as it shall when I click on the map. XFCE, 64 bit
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I suffer since the last flashupdate from really frequent iceweasel-freezes!
Only closing iceweasel helps!
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...is not working for me, the map will only flicker och blink or whatever it is called, sometimes I can see the map but it doesn't work as it shall when I click on the map. XFCE, 64 bit
fluxbox (xfce install), 32 bit.
No technical problems apart from the fact that it took near to a minute to load.
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For example this http://www.airasia.com/ot/en/where-we-fly/route-map.page?
Works correctly here, iceweasel and chromium browser, KDE.
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The site works fine here, can click on any part of the map
firefox, chromium browser, and kde
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In iceweasel
about:config
type in the search barplugins.click_to_playdoubleclick on the setting to toggle it to "false"
If false is already set, leave it, it is not ready for prime-time yet to set it to true, although you may "experiment" with it ;)
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Not working here. I removed all my extensions, adblock+ and element hiding but that didn't help
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If you test it with another browser (chromium-browser, konqueror, whatever), you might learn whether the problem is limited to iceweasel, or is bigger than that.
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Tested with chromium and there it works with no problem. Purged iceweasel and installed again, same problem :(
Edit: Checked with another computer, same problem. The main is a Thinkpad T400 and the other checked is a Lenovo Ideapad z360. Both are 64 bit xfce.
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which version of IW?
I am here with a newer one from http://mozilla.debian.net/
Maybe give it a try.
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I have 17.0.6, installed from debian experimental 21.0, same problem.
Also checked one more computer here, Thinkpad Edge 64 bit xfce same problem
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I don't know whether it makes any difference, but I have installed the esr (extended support release) version (you may choose at http://mozilla.debian.net/ under "version)
Did you know, when you purge a package, the config files in your home were *not* removed! If you then reinstall this or a new package, you have the same config as before. So you always should make sure to remove or save away the config file/folders in your home if you want try a new install.
Maybe you could test the current install, but save away your home/IW folder.
You could try a live CD and install flash as a test, too.
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I don't know whether it makes any difference, but I have installed the esr (extended support release) version (you may choose at http://mozilla.debian.net/ under "version)
When I try esr it shows just to install iceweasel without changing repo, so I think esr is standard in sid?
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Here it looks like this:
# apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
Installiert: 17.0.6esr-1
Installationskandidat: 17.0.6esr-1
Versionstabelle:
21.0-1 0
1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main i386 Packages
*** 17.0.6esr-1 0
900 http://http.debian.net/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
17.0.5esr-1 0
1 http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental/iceweasel-esr i386 Packages
10.0.12esr-1+nmu1 0
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages
10.0.12esr-1 0
500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stable/main i386 Packages
I edited my above posting (config in home), please read.
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I did a new installation on the T400 on the second hd. With a new installed 64 bit xfce with the newest iceweasel and newest flashplugin it works perfect. After a complete d-u it fails again. So my conclusion so far is that it is something else than Iceweasel and flash is causing the problem alone.
Edited: Now I have also tried to start with some older kernels but that didn't make any difference.
Maybe the part of this topic related to my problem shall be moved from upgrade-warnings, so we are not bothering others in this important place? That's up to the moderators to decide.
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... After a complete d-u it fails again. So my conclusion so far is that it is something else than Iceweasel and flash is causing the problem alone....
It's worth a bug report. And if you don't find the culprit it's still IW not working.
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Just tried with the new release, Firestarter, installed Iceweasel and flasplugin-nonfree on live cd and I have the same problem there.
Edited: Also purged flashplugin and tried with browser-plugun-gnash, same problem....
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Maybe ariasia isn't the best site to test with. Today it does not work here, neither with IW, nor with Opera.
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I have the same problems on some other sites, but this problems disappears if I disable adblocker. It bothers me, because the problem looks the same but on air asia it's not the adblock.
Edited: I checked around a little more, seems like it's only Air Asia so far that have this problem not related to adblock-plugin. So maybe we shall leave this for a while and say it's a Air Asia problem? They are nice and cheap to fly with though ;)
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Tell *them* about the problem if you like this airline.
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Bump
Flash 11.2.202.297 is out today.
Note: if you use the cron script in the 3rd post in this thread, don't forget the '#!/bin/sh'...
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... Note: if you use the cron script in the 3rd post in this thread, don't forget the '#!/bin/sh'...
I really had problems and wasn't aware of the missing shebang.
http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?msg=30945#30945
Thanks for mentioning it!
So the content of /etc/cron.daily/flash shold be:
#!/bin/sh
test -x /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree && /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree --install --quiet
It needs to be executable.
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There is a new flash version (11.2.202.335), but I wonder why the script (cronjob) didn't update to it? I successfully updated manually now.
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Just FYI for KDE users -- I recently discovered kcm_cron. In krunner, launch "kdesu kcmshell4 kcm_cron". To set a cron job, first set up the command to be run, and enable all months, then enable either a date in the month, or a date in the week, or all days if you want it to run daily. Then set the time of day to run, and "apply" and you are done.
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Is this just a frontend/configuration tool to cron or do *the created cronjobs* work only if KDE is lauched?
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That's an excellent question and I honestly don't know for sure. But, my logic says "Why would you enable a root-authorized cron job at 3:00 a.m. if it won't work when no users are logged in?". So my bet is, it runs regardless of whether a KDE session is running or not. I'll dig around and see if I can learn more.
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...But, my logic says "Why would you enable a root-authorized cron job at 3:00 a.m. if it won't work when no users are logged in?". ...
I'd say: That's a completly different question which is *answerd* installing anac(h)ron (which, to put it in a nutshell, executes cronjobs not executed at its time because the system was down at the time the job was configured for. But anac(h)ron is installed by default, I guess).
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But anac(h)ron is installed by default, I guess).
I think so -- it's in all my systems and I never manually installed it.
To clarify, "kcm_cron" is a module for kcmshell4. There are many other modules, which can perform many desktop configuration tasks. kcmshell4, as part of KDE, is normally a user utility, but by calling it with "kdesu" you can do root tasks with it (similar to kate or konsole).
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There is a new flash version (11.2.202.335), but I wonder why the script (cronjob) didn't update to it? I successfully updated manually now.
Script worked fine for me...