linux-f10-flashplugin

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:56:48PM +0200, Norbert Augenstein wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:06:59 +0200
> Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:50:01 -0700 Ted Faber <faber at isi.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 02:41:39PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote:
> > > > On 09/29/11 13:57, Norbert Augenstein wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:08:25PM +0400, S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
> > > > >> 28.09.2011, 21:10, "Conrad J. Sabatier"<conrads at cox.net>:
> > > > >>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:50:08 -0500
> > > > >>> "Conrad J. Sabatier"<conrads at cox.net>  wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > I see that as well as:
> > > 
> > > (process:5430): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
> > > 	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> > > 
> > > 	(npviewer.bin:5430): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed
> > > due to unknown user id (2139)
> > > 
> > > 	(npviewer.bin:5430): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open
> > > display: :0.0 *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize
> > > plugin-side RPC client connection
> > > 	NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I haven't explored the getpwuid_r thing.
> > > 
> > 
> > Can you all please confirm that you run the most recent FreeBSD
> > version (of your branch), as in "with the recent security fixes"?
> > There are reports that one of them may have caused what you see.
> > 
> > Bye,
> > Alexander.
> > 
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> it seems that
> http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc
> is the culprit.

Just for clarification:

Said fix might explain the "ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side RPC
client connection" problem, but would not explain the getpwuid_r()
problem.

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