Bug 155225

Summary: firefox-1.0.3-1.4.1 startup failure
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Warren Togami <wtogami>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: 4.0CC: blizzard
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Description Warren Togami 2005-04-18 08:12:55 UTC 
Description of problem:
firefox-1.0.3-1.4.1 totally fails to start the browser if you upgraded from
FC3's firefox-1.0.3-1.3.1.  While this is an unsupported upgrade path, there is
probably a simple package fix to avoid this problem involving file ownership. 
In order to recover the user must totally uninstall firefox before reinstalling
firefox-1.0.3-1.4.1.

Reproduce Procedure:
[root@ibmlaptop lib]# rpm -e firefox
[root@ibmlaptop lib]# rpm -Uvh /tmp/firefox-1.0.3-1.4.1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:firefox                ########################################### [100%]
[root@ibmlaptop lib]# cp -a firefox-1.0.3/ firefox-1.0.3.el4
[root@ibmlaptop lib]# rpm -Uvh /tmp/firefox-1.0.3-1.3.1.i386.rpm --oldpackage
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:firefox                ########################################### [100%]
[root@ibmlaptop lib]# rpm -Uvh /tmp/firefox-1.0.3-1.4.1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:firefox                ########################################### [100%]

Then run "firefox" as your non-root user.  Attachments next with more details.
Comment 1 Warren Togami 2005-04-18 08:14:19 UTC 
Created attachment 113313 [details]
firefox-strace.txt

strace showing where firefox gets stuck during startup.
Comment 2 Warren Togami 2005-04-18 08:16:58 UTC 
Created attachment 113314 [details]
firefox-diff.txt

diff -urN /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.3.el4/ /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.3
Former being a clean install of firefox-1.0.3-1.4.1, latter being
firefox-1.0.3-1.4.1 after upgrade from firefox-1.0.3-1.3.1.
Comment 3 Christopher Aillon 2006-10-31 03:35:46 UTC 
Going to close since this is a non-supported case and there were no other
reports.  Additionally, this should have gone away with 1.5 since it doesn't do
the registering at install anymore.