Fedora Core 2 update problems

[James McKenzie]

Howard:

In which order did you install them?  I upgraded libgnome first and then 
Mozilla as my LAST upgrade.   I  did this because I had moved Mozilla 
from /usr/bin to /opt/bin.  The reason is the same as the reason I want 
to move /usr/lib to /opt/lib, lack of space in the /usr partition.

James McKenzie


Howard Cheng wrote:

>Hi,
>
>  I have been trying to update the following packages in my Fedora
>Core 2 with up2date:
>
>  libgnome-2.6.0-3 (from libgnome-2.6.0-2)
>  mozilla-1.7.3-0.2.0:37 (from mozilla-1.6-8)
>
>The problems I am experiencing are:
>
>  libgnome:
>    - Once I upgraded, all my preferences got mixed up (trying to set the
>      keyboard rate, for example, results in error messages), and the 
>      "Desktop background" app actually crashes.  All my icons on the
>      desktop are also gone.
>
>    - This problem remains even if I create a new user without any old
>      profile information.
>
>    - Interestingly things work as expected when I log in as root.  I
>      checked all the files in libgnome and the permissions seem correct.
>
>    - Downgrading back to libgnome-2.6.0-2 makes everything work again,
>      except for the things that the new version fixes (e.g. sound).
>
>  mozilla:
>
>    - After upgrading, it is completely unusable.  Sometimes the bookmarks
>      disappears, sometimes it doesn't respond to clicks, and sometimes
>      I can't type URL into the URL bar at the top.  It didn't matter
>      whether I erased all the profiles and started over, or ran it
>      as root.
>
>    - Downgrading back to mozilla-1.6-8 "fixes" everything.
>
>I can't imagine these rpms hanging around for so long (months) if
>there are many other people having the same problems.  Am I the only
>one?  I reported the libgnome problem on bugzilla and only a couple of
>other people said "me too"...but no solution was ever offered.
>
>Any insight on these problems would be appreciated.  (I upgraded from
>Fedora Core 1 instead of doing an install from scratch.  Does that
>matter?)
>
>Howard
>
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