Bug 1221600 - [RHEL5] After update to Firefox 38 ESR all RH preferences are gone, update to 38.0.1
Summary: [RHEL5] After update to Firefox 38 ESR all RH preferences are gone, update to...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: firefox
Version: 5.11
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
high
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Depends On: 1221286 1221599
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-05-14 12:26 UTC by Martin Stransky
Modified: 2015-05-25 11:02 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 1221599
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-05-25 11:02:43 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2015:1026 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE firefox bug fix update 2015-05-25 15:02:32 UTC

Description Martin Stransky 2015-05-14 12:26:21 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1221599 +++

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1221286 +++

Description of problem:


Firefox 38.0 EST


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
run yum Update firefox to becam firefox 38.0 ESR
Now run Firefox and you have the engish version from firefox


Actual results:
i've the friefox 31.6 ESR in german after i've run  Yum Update today the Firefox release 38.0 only in English language

It Seems you've the english Firefox in the repos and not the german

Additional info:
you can run yum remove firwefox and download the release from mozilla
extract it to /opt and run tis version. then you have the german version of firefox 38 ESR

--- Additional comment from RHEL Product and Program Management on 2015-05-13 11:47:15 EDT ---

Since this bug report was entered in bugzilla, the release flag has been
set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release.

--- Additional comment from Martin Stransky on 2015-05-13 14:12:03 EDT ---

Can you check if you have any error message in Console? (CTRL+SHIFT+K). Do you have the langpack in ~/.mozilla/extensions/{ID}/ subdir?

--- Additional comment from Matthias31 on 2015-05-13 14:56:13 EDT ---



--- Additional comment from Matthias31 on 2015-05-13 14:59:06 EDT ---

yes someting is complete, an i see no errors in the console. 3 Pc's and 2 Notebook ar the same problem 

Look at folowing mail, see youe the subscription [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2015:0988 Critical CentOS 7 firefox Security Update --this breaks language settings ?

The problem must know by redhat.

Betreff: Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2015:0988 Critical CentOS 7
firefox Security	Update --this breaks language settings
Datum: Wed, 13 May 2015 10:34:47 +0200 (CEST)
Von: johan.vermeulen7
Antwort an: CentOS mailing list <centos>
An: centos
Kopie (CC): centos-announce



----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Johnny Hughes" <johnny>
Aan: centos-announce
Verzonden: Woensdag 13 mei 2015 03:01:32
Onderwerp: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2015:0988 Critical CentOS 7 firefox
Security	Update


CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2015:0988 Critical

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0988.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename )

x86_64:
0515534be7270e32c574f9d869fa86afacb9285285c394d7b5a3d0a50c7a8838
firefox-38.0-3.el7.centos.i686.rpm
3b0c44ed663e3270058f9dc19f088b34380cc854a3632dd41db4ec2ba2551c67
firefox-38.0-3.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

Source:
4d106e031fffbf2c7c19f8f9fbc8f9253d5dc8aa5c8d0e97facb8f22db84e27b
firefox-38.0-3.el7.centos.src.rpm



-- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos.net

--- Additional comment from Matthias31 on 2015-05-13 15:00:31 EDT ---

you see german is installed

--- Additional comment from Matthias31 on 2015-05-13 15:02:22 EDT ---

and on the firefox console have no errors

--- Additional comment from Martin Stransky on 2015-05-13 15:13:10 EDT ---

That's really strange. The langpack is correctly installed and recognized by Firefox but not used...

--- Additional comment from manuel wolfshant on 2015-05-13 16:00:21 EDT ---

@martin: another user reports the same problem, with the Spanish language: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8664

--- Additional comment from Akemi Yagi on 2015-05-13 16:46:39 EDT ---

I just tested this issue on a RHEL-7 system. Changed my language to Japanese. FF 38 failed to display in Japanese.

I then downgraded FF to 31 and the problem was gone. The display was correctly in Japanese.

Updated FF to 38 again and the issue came back.

--- Additional comment from Matthias31 on 2015-05-13 18:09:46 EDT ---

It is a redhat problem while you can f38 download form mozilla, extract and run it. You see a german Firefox.

--- Additional comment from Martin Stransky on 2015-05-14 04:04:41 EDT ---

Yes, that's a bug in RH package. It's caused by missing mozilla-xremote-client which has been removed.

But I'm still confused by a fact that the langpack is not picked up even when it's listed as extension.

--- Additional comment from Martin Stransky on 2015-05-14 04:10:26 EDT ---

Yes, I can reproduce it now. There are two bugs actually. 

One is missing mozilla-xremote-client - that causes that new langpacks are not installed. It affects fresh installations and system language changes.

Second bug is that already installed and enabled langpacks is not picked up by Firefox - still investigating this one.

--- Additional comment from Matthias31 on 2015-05-14 04:36:26 EDT ---

here  you see the installed langpacks in  usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks, maybe there are here an Error to

--- Additional comment from Martin Stransky on 2015-05-14 07:05:43 EDT ---

Second part of this bug is a wrong value in general.useragent.locale (you can see that in about:config). A workaround is to change it by hand to your locale - "de" in your case.

--- Additional comment from Martin Stransky on 2015-05-14 08:15:28 EDT ---

Actually all preferences set by Red Hat are gone. It's because the pref file is not packages. So there isn't a default homepage, language prefs and so on.

--- Additional comment from Akemi Yagi on 2015-05-14 08:18:38 EDT ---

A possible solution was posted in CentOS bug #8664:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8664#c23065

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2015-05-25 11:02:43 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1026.html


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