Bug 707534

Summary:	openSuSE 12.1 as a user - flash fails as root it works
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Donald Donn Washburn <n5xwb>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Dirk Mueller <dmueller>
Status:	RESOLVED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	n5xwb, suse-beta
Version:	Milestone 2
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Donald Donn Washburn 2011-07-21 23:05:41 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110708 Firefox/8.0a1

Flash will not work as a user but does as root.  The same site projects the image correctly as root but not as a user.  It appears to be a permission headache.
I remeber a time when using root was considered a bad idea and stay as a user when on the net.  This is a x86-64 machine and I run in runlevel 3 not 5.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.call up thunderbird and get your mail
2.Click on a site that has a flash video
3.Note as it comes up the lack of some of the thing.  
Actual Results:  
it comes up the lack of flash video things.  Like weather maps and news site video.

Expected Results:  
I would expect flash to work as a user and not need to login as root 

It seems this is another user permission or security problem.

Comment 1 Donald Donn Washburn 2011-07-22 02:25:00 UTC

Thanks for the fast reply

It absolutely works as root and not as a user.  Many headaches are coming from not running runlevel 5.  I only work in runlevel 3 and I see this kind of problem all the time.  As a matter of fact try runlevel 3 and see if KDE4 sound works as a user.  It has been fixed here with 11.4 last issue and 12.1  but failed before those.  But dev/sr0 the last time I checked it with k3b and xine failed based on the 660 for /dev/sr0

Comment 2 Christian Boltz 2011-07-27 23:51:09 UTC

Donald, you wrote the following in opensuse-factory:
> To let everyone know it turned out to be a bad shutdown that caused my 
> flash problem.  I was in /home/me/.mozilla/firefox in a file which I am 
> going to track down.  However, my openSuSE permission guess was incorrect.

Does this mean this bug is solved? If yes, please close it ;-) (or upload the file causing the problem)

Comment 3 Donald Donn Washburn 2011-07-28 00:03:15 UTC

I completely reloaded into 12.1 M3 and still had the problem in /home/donn/.mozilla and it was tracked to pref.js.  It was loaded with garbage text.
So I removed it and it is now working

Comment 4 Dirk Mueller 2011-08-19 15:41:21 UTC

sounds a bit as if some of the device permissiosn are not correct. are you sure that you start a consolekit session? you need to do that manually if you start with runlevel 3.

Comment 5 Dirk Mueller 2013-09-23 13:36:28 UTC

please reopen if you can still reproduce that with openSUSE 12.3 or newer.