retitle 467564 gnash: debris from older versions make current ones break
# there seems to be a functional workaround, even if complex
severity 467564 normal
thanks

>  > retitile -1 gnash: debris from older versions make current ones break
>  Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.

I finally managed to make the damn thing work, and it works better
than it ever did before.

The cause seems to be some mime-type mish-mash corroborated with
pulseaudio (strangely enough, I was having issues when pulseaudio was
stopped).

Fixing the issue involved:
- hand editing ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat to remove any reference to
swf, flv, flash or gnash (if removed entirely, seems to be properly
generated)
- (probably not relevant for epiphany) hand editing
~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/mimeTypes.rdf to remove any reference to
flv, swf, flash or gnash.
- removing/moving away the entire .gstreamer-0.10 directory (is recreated)
- starting pulseaudio since it was stopped

I did the tests using epiphany-browser since I have many extensions
installed in iceweasel. Once the issues were fixed for epiphany, I
just started icewesel, too, and it worked without further changes.


I am not sure if gnash shouldn't conflict with the non-free flash plugin.


I will try see if the gnash issues I had on the powerpc machine are
gone once Robert backports the source from Lenny to Etch, as he said
he will do, after gnash migrates to lenny.

-- 
Regards,
EddyP
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein



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