WARNING: latest FC6 gtk2 update breaks Thunderbird & Firefox

Tim Jackson lists at timj.co.uk
Sat Jan 27 13:13:27 UTC 2007


Just a warning to everyone who uses Thunderbird or Firefox: the latest 
gtk2 update (gtk2-2.10.8-1.fc6) partially breaks them, at least for some 
people. Symptom for me was not being able to drag messages in 
Thunderbird between folders, though apparently it also affects bookmarks 
in Firefox. See:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223571

Personally if you use these apps I would recommend putting the following 
in your /etc/yum.conf until the above bug is fixed:

exclude=gtk2 gtk2-devel

If you've already upgraded and find you've got a broken system, you can 
download the previous version that works OK (gtk2-2.10.4-10.fc6) from:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

and do:

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage [filename]


Tim




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