plugin not found causes ckeditor not to work

same problem here, moved footnotes/footnotes_wysiwyg/ckeditor_plugin to ckeditor/plugins/footnotes and all is fine again.

I was too quick, no need to move the plugin into ckeditor, but renaming footnotes_wysiwyg/ckeditor_plugin to footnotes_wysiwyg/footnotes worked, as would a symlink.

Not sure why this works though, as the .module files does look for the plugin in /ckeditor_plugin...? Using CKEditor 3.6.1.7072

Thanks for the tips, I tried a variety of plugin directory structures/names and finally copying and renaming the footnotes plugin to the ckeditor plugins folder solved it for me.

This worked for me
ln -s path/to/ckeditor_plugin path/to/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/footnotes

Same here, a symbolic link from the ckeditor_plugin directory to ..../sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/footnotes worked for me.

Do any of you have the CKEditor module AND the wysiwyg module both enabled?

I have seen this problem when that is the case, then as soon as you turn one off it works.
Those two modules can't be used at the same time.

Can you try the latest dev version without copy files or creating symlinks and see if the problem still occurs?
Just set the status back to active when you reply.

I have wysiwyg module (7.x-2.1+13-dev (2012-Feb-19)) with ckeditor used as the editor, which means the library has to be installed but am not using the alternative standalone ckeditor module.

I had the plugin not found error with the stable 7.x-2.5 version - haven't tried the dev version yet but might give it a go.

But I can confirm the error is not linked with having ckeditor module active. Other modules I do have that might be connected are wysiwyg filter and ckeditor link.

The error is /sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/footnotes/plugin.js not found

So I tried the dev version and it does seem to work - so far so good!