WARNING: latest FC6 gtk2 update breaks Thunderbird & Firefox
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Jan 27 14:29:11 UTC 2007
Tim Jackson wrote:
> 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
>
I'm seeing this bug also with seamonkey for development.
There does seem to be a patch for Thunderbird submitted though.
Following through the maze of bug references, the patch below was said
to fix the problem.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=251710
Jim
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