I broke Mozilla

[Richard McLarty]

Matt,

Thanks -- didn't realize that my mozilla was that far behind the current 
release. I decided to force a reinstall (rpm -U  replacepkgs) of the 
older version, just to make sure I knew how to solve the problem without 
upgrading. I'm thinking I must have created the problem by downloading 
the wrong plugin, so the possibility I might repeat the error made me 
want a more basic solution.

Problem solved, but would be have been easier to do if YUM had a forced 
mode like rpm does. Guess you can't have everything!

I did run into a tutorial on adding multi-media plugins to mozilla that 
is pretty cool, and learned more about configuring YUM in the process:

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/dynaweb_docs/linux/usr/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO.html#introduction

Thanks again for your help! Richard

Matt Hansen wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 05:57, Richard McLarty wrote:
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>>after removing the lock file and failing to run, I executed mozilla from 
>>a terminal as you suggested and get a  "segmentation fault" response.  
>>How do I proceed?  Thanks!
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>Richard,
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>Perform an "strace" run on the mozilla process and file a new Bugzilla
>report on this, and attach the strace output.
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>As for an immediate remedy, have you rebooted to clear up any possible
>stale files that may be causing this? Maybe upgrading to mozilla 1.6.x
>would fix this issue for you.
>
>Regards,
>-Matt
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