firefox 3 not starting RHEL ES 4

[Paul Whitney]

Bill,

This might be a trivial check, but did you look at the permission to the
directory where the shared library is? It maybe that the directory
permissions are set to 700.

I ran into a similar problem with my locked down box and forgot to open up
the umask. So when I installed the updates, Firefox would not launch. A
simple chmod fixed my problem.

Paul W
WINS


On 9/18/08 6:55 AM, "Tangren, Bill" <bill.tangren at usno.navy.mil> wrote:

> When I recently upgraded all my RHEL ES 4 servers to the latest minor
> version (don't remember what the number is right now, but think it is
> 6), firefox stopped working for users, but would still work for root. I
> saw the thread about how it could be an NFS lock problem, but I don't
> use NFS. This is the error I get when I try to start firefox from the
> command line:
> 
> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox-bin: error while loading shared
> libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No
> such file or directory
> 
> But I have pango installed.
> 
> This error is all over the internet for various OS's like Cent OS and
> Debian, but I can't find a solution. See this link:
> 
> http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=fr&forumId=
> 1&comments_parentId=73375
> 
> as an example. The comments in the NFS thread indicated that it might be
> a permissions problem on the ~/.firefox directory, but the permissions
> are 775 in the example I give. Does anyone know what might be the
> problem?
> 
> ---
> Bill Tangren
> U.S. Naval Observatory
>