flash hanging, grey window, fedora 13 64bit, upgrade, solution

[Ian Malone]

Since it hasn't come up on a quick search of the mailing list and it's
sufficiently late (/early) that I don't want to have to work out where
to file a bug right now (and may forget):

Upgraded from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13 (kudos to Fedora, generally went
very smoothly, I think this is the only thing that broke). Flash
stopped working, I had been using the wrapped 32bit Adobe flash
package with nspluginwrapper as detailed in
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash>.

However all the flash applications I tried (youtube,
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/) caused Firefox to go into
busy mode for a while with npviewer.bin at 100% cpu. When it finally
stopped, where there should have been flash there was a grey box.
Running from the terminal gave:

Multiple of these:
(npviewer.bin:3420): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "clearlooks",

One of these:
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module":
libpk-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory

Then:
*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (<unknown
variable>) in NPN_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (<unknown
variable>) in NPN_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (<unknown
variable>) in NPN_GetValue()

And lots of this:
(npviewer.bin:3420): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Write() wait for reply: Message timeout
*** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2239):invoke_NPP_DestroyStream:
assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2537):invoke_NPP_HandleEvent: assertion
failed:

I had first tried removing the packages installed during the flash
install: nspluginwrapper.{x86_64,i586} alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i586
flash-plugin and then installing again, but with no success. So on a
hunch I checked and discovered I only had PackageKit-gtk-module
installed for 64 bit, doing a
# yum install PackageKit-gtk-module.i686
fixed things again. So this should be a dependency somewhere. It may
have been missed during the upgrade process in which case it's
unlikely to affect many people, or it may affect a lot. Anyway,
posting in case someone finds it useful.

-- 
imalone