[18990] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.4.23: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Mon Jun 25 13:03:19 2001
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:03:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Michael J Griffin <mjgriff@mit.edu>
cc: <bugs@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200106242101.RAA691306@w20-575-117.mit.edu>
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Assuming I remember the correct problem (we have a slew of plugin-related
problems on SGI's), this is because the Flash plugin is dependent on a
different set of standard libraries; this problem began when SGI changed
the format of its library dependencies a while back. (I'm not an SGI whiz,
so forgive my vagueness. N32 vs O32 conflict.)
This is broken, in other words, not just for Athena but for all SGIs
anywhere later than a certain IRIX version. I have written Macromedia a
couple of times to bring this to their attention. No response yet.
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Michael J Griffin wrote:
> System name: w20-575-117.mit.edu
> Type and version: IP32 8.4.23
> Display type: CRM
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: unknown
>
> What were you trying to do?
> View a Flash application in Netscape
> http://web.mit.edu/stc/publicity/hotel/sample.html
> I looked at OLC answers, but found nothing.
> I tried OLC, but that gave me an error.
>
> What's wrong:
> Put macromedia plugin in my ~/.netscape/plugins directory but
> Netscape still didn't recognize the Flash application.
>
> What should have happened:
> I should have seen a Flash application in Netscape.
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> When I type about:plugins in the Netscape Location: box
> I get a Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) popup.
> The popup says:
> ERROR 66308:/var/athena/infoagents/arch/sgi_65/MIT-only/netscape/netscape: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname '/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/m/j/mjgriff/.netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so' under any ...
> Can't load plugin: blah/blah/blah/libflashplayer.so Ignored.
>
>
