Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Joshua Penix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:54 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>>
>>> So for now I am using Opera.  But it would be nice to know what broke.
>> What if you run it as a different user with a clean profile, or just
>> temporarily move yours out of the way?
>>
>> What does 'rpm -V' show for the Firefox package... anything out of the
>> ordinary?
> 
> Unfortunately the firefox update was installed by pup (running yum)
> which cleaned up after itself and deleted the .rpm packages...

The -V command should not require presence of any rpm file, I think.
  rpm -V firefox
  rpm -V firefox3
both work on my F7. The first complains a little; the second is silent.
adding a (lowercase) -v option produces lotsa spam. I presume that
firefox 2 is still around because it is a dependancy of other programs.

>.. Removing
> Firefox and reinstalling from the repository using yum from the
> command line came up with the same error.
> 
>> If the package checks out and it's not a user profile issue, I'd start
>> looking at the CentOS or RedHat bug trackers. :)
> 
> Installing directly from firefox-3.0.1.tar.bz2 downloaded from
> mozilla.com gave me back a working Firefox.
> I suppose I should look at bug trackers just on principle.

Maybe you have just found another vote against using server-oriented
distros for desktop/workstation use?

Regards,
..jim


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