fedora-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 187

[Xiaotian Sun]

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 22:49, Xiaotian Sun wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 22:42, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> 
> > Message: 9
> > Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:14:12 -0700
> > From: Scott Talbot <talbotscott at cox.net>
> > Subject: Re: mozilla 1.6 and 2.4.22-1.2179.nptl
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Message-ID: <1082168052.5937.7.camel at ip68-7-36-36.sd.sd.cox.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 17:31, Xiaotian Sun wrote:
> > > Hi All:
> > > 
> > > I just update my kernel to 2.4.22-1.2179.nptl via up2date (yum).  Along
> > > the way I also update all the dependencies determined by up2date.  Now
> > > my mozilla 1.6 stop working.  When I try to start mozilla, a window
> > > flashes and then mozilla just exits.  Does anyone knows what went wrong?
> > > 
> > 	This is a fairly common problem with mozilla.  Usually part of Mozilla
> > is left running on your system.  Try starting the monitor and kill any
> > mozilla programs you see, or (better) at the terminal execute:
> > 
> > su -
> > <enter root password>
> > 
> > kill -9 mozilla
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> 
> sorry, maybe I didn't make myself clear.  it's not because there's some
> dead mozilla process.  it happens on a freshly booted machine, after
> updating the kernel, along with some dependencies.  so I suspect it may
> be some library problem.  but I'm not sure.
> 
my bad.  I just found out that when I update my mozilla last time using
up2date, somehow one rpm, mozilla-nspr, didn't get updated.  now
everything is fine after I updated it. But somehow it was working ok
before I updated the kernel.