Bug 730460

Summary: after yum update firefox does not start
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Paul van Maaren <paul>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Paul van Maaren 2011-08-13 08:26:16 UTC 
Description of problem:

After yum update firefox does nolonger start

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -qf `which firefox`
firefox-5.0-2.fc15.i686

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type: firefox
2. nothing happens
3.
  
Actual results:
firefox does not start

Expected results:
firefox starts

Additional info:
When I ran: strace firefox I got a popup abrt message of a crash in xulrunner, which crashed itself...
Comment 1 Paul van Maaren 2011-08-13 22:10:10 UTC 
Further research of the system learned that  /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.4 was corrupted. After yum reinstall gtk2 everything works again.