WARNING: latest FC6 gtk2 update breaks Thunderbird & Firefox

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Sat Jan 27 14:31:58 UTC 2007


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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
> 
Thank you for the post (and for fixing Thunderbird).

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  Steve
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