getting the plugins to work--linux libraries not being found

From: Dr. Richard E. Hawkins (hawk_at_slytherin.ds.psu.edu)
Date: 09/18/04


Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:10:01 +0000 (UTC)

On both this new installation and an older upgraded installatin, I'm
having trouble to get plugins to work with mozilla.

I have installed:
pkg_info | grep -e .mozilla -e plugin -e flash (y|n|e|a)? no
flashplayer-0.4.10_1 GPL standalone Flash (TM) player
libflash-0.4.10 GPL Flash (TM) Library
linux-flashplugin-5.0r51_1 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux Netscape and
linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_1 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux Mozilla and
linux-flashplugin-7.0r25 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux Mozilla and
linuxpluginwrapper-20040831 A wrapper allowing use of linux-plugins with native applica
mozilla-1.7.2_1,2 The open source, standards compliant web browser mplayerplug-in-2.66 A Mozilla plugin for the MPlayer media player

When I go to about:plugins, I get the message:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so [Shared object
"libdl.so.2" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/usr/local/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so [Shared object
"libc.so.6" not found, required by "nppdf.so"]

However,
slytherin ttyp1:hawk>ls -l /compat/linux/lib/libc*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5737218 Nov 5 2003 /compat/linux/lib/libc-2.2.4.so
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Sep 18 13:11 /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.4.so

and

ls -l /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 65473 Nov 5 2003 /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl-2.2.4.so
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Sep 18 13:11 /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2 -> libdl-2.2.4.so

Linux is enabled:
slytherin# grep linux /etc/rc.conf
linux_enable="YES"

the linprocfs is mounted:
slytherin ttyp4:hawk>mount | grep lin
linprocfs on /usr/compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local)

The linuxpluginwrapper port asks for some lines to be removed from
bin/mozilla, but they're no longer there.

It asks for a change to libmap.conf, but not only don't I have one, it's
for different libraries (I think):

** PLEASE CHANGE FOLLOWING LINES FROM /etc/libmap.conf **
libpthread.so.0 liblthread.so.3
        to
libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so

Shouldn't all of this be working automatically?

thanks
hawk

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