Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 104275
Mozilla doesn't download .rpm files.
Last modified: 2007-03-27 00:09:44 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: Mozilla doesn't download rpm files via http. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.4-12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Just try to download one rpm from http://lisas.de/~nils/redhat/rawhide/RPMS/i386/.
Works for me, trying SDL_ttf...
*** Bug 104280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> Works for me The problem appeart some days ago. This system is sync to the current rawhide. I check my system with "rpm -V -a". Seems OK. I set /etc/sysconfig/i18n to "en_GB.UTF-8" to avoid locale issue (I usally use "fr_FR.UTF8"). Create a new account. Log in into gnome. Launch mozilla and browse http://lisas.de/~nils/redhat/rawhide/ . Try to download a package but without success. I can't download anything form any website. The initial bug report is wrong. I can't download via ftp also :-)
No problem here. I've just downloaded a file from that sitehttp://lisas.de/~nils/redhat/rawhide/, by clicking on an rpm package, and selecting "save as:" and pointing to my download directory. All system updates are from rawhide, and current as of 12 Sep. However, I have not *ever* encountered download difficulties with mozilla. What error messages pop up when you try a download? Do you have cookies enabled / disabled? FYI: my security settings on mozilla are thus: Privace settings are "high". Lifetime is limited to "current session", and in Scripts and Plugins "read cookies" is disabled.
> What error messages pop up when you try a download? No error message, no popup, nothing. Mozilla Default setting. No problem with epiphany.
I found the problem. Since I use evolution, I have removed mozilla-mail. But mozilla (the browser) need mozilla-mail to download files.
I have this problem also with mozilla-1.4-12. I can not download *anything*. Right click "save link target as" also fails. In my case, mozilla-mail is installed. Install of rh9 was the complete CD.... everything installed. Don't know if that is what my problem is. Also, after rh9 install, the default mozilla was very broken. Even Help:About produced a blank page. Also if you clicked on a documentation (redhat manual) link from the menu, and there was another manual already open, the second browser came up with a blank screen. Too many problems to mention, and a complete CD install produced identical broken results on 3 different systems. Don't know if this is a clue/relevant to the current mozilla-1.4-12 problem. This is how I upgraded to mozilla-1.4-12 from rh9 CD install: # # Uninstall Mozilla dependancies. # rpm -e galeon rpm -e kdebindings-devel rpm -e kdebindings rpm -e plugger # # Uninstall Mozilla. # rpm -e mozilla-dom-inspector rpm -e mozilla-js-debugger rpm -e mozilla-psm rpm -e mozilla-mail rpm -e mozilla-chat rpm -e mozilla-devel rpm -e mozilla rpm -e mozilla-nss-devel rpm -e mozilla-nss rpm -e mozilla-nspr-devel rpm -e mozilla-nspr # # Install New Sun Java Engine for Mozilla. # rpm -i j2re-1_4_2-linux-i586.rpm # # Install Mozilla. # rpm -i mozilla-nspr-1.4-12.i386.rpm rpm -i mozilla-nspr-devel-1.4-12.i386.rpm rpm -i mozilla-nss-1.4-12.i386.rpm rpm -i mozilla-nss-devel-1.4-12.i386.rpm rpm -i mozilla-1.4-12.i386.rpm rpm -i mozilla-devel-1.4-12.i386.rpm rpm -i mozilla-chat-1.4-12.i386.rpm rpm -i mozilla-mail-1.4-12.i386.rpm rpm -i mozilla-psm-1.4-12.i386.rpm rpm -i mozilla-js-debugger-1.4-12.i386.rpm rpm -i mozilla-dom-inspector-1.4-12.i386.rpm # # Install other stuff. # rpm -i plugger-4.0-23.i386.rpm rpm -i kdebindings-3.1-6.i386.rpm rpm -i kdebindings-devel-3.1-6.i386.rpm Then to get Java working: cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
I've found the problem in my case, but I suspect the problem I've found relates to a number of bugs reported across bugzilla. The version of Galeon supplied on the RedHat 9.0 CD set isnât compatible with the supplied version of Mozilla. Although Galeon works just fine, it breaks the Mozilla installation whenever it is run. The Mozilla file that gets corrupted is: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/components/compreg.dat If you must install and use Galeon make sure you save a copy of the above configuration file before you actually run Galeon and reinstate the original contents before switching back to Mozilla. The updated Galeon (not from RedHat) also breaks mozilla-1.4-12 from rawhide. The file that gets corrupted is: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/components/compreg.dat Once broken you can fix mozilla by forcing the file back to its original state by: rpm âU âforce mozilla-1.2.1-26.i386.rpm or whatever version is applicable.
If you use galeon _as root_, right?
Yes, I was root at the time.
Seems fixed in FC2 T2.