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Bug 1868842 - Warnings displayed when removing Firefox package [rhel-7.9.z]
Summary: Warnings displayed when removing Firefox package [rhel-7.9.z]
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: firefox
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Jan Horak
QA Contact: Desktop QE
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-08-14 02:02 UTC by jiehuang
Modified: 2023-12-15 18:51 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-09-30 06:35:53 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1284983 0 unspecified CLOSED Removal of Firefox results in a multitude of warnings 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1868864 0 unspecified CLOSED Warnings displayed when removing Firefox package 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4080 0 None None None 2020-09-30 06:36:17 UTC

Internal Links: 1868864

Description jiehuang 2020-08-14 02:02:50 UTC
Description of problem:
When Customer removing the firefox package in RHEL 7.4, a large number of warnings are shown for files it's expecting to find on the filesystem to remove, but are not found. Output of this will be placed under "Additional info" below.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox.x86_64 0:68.11.0-1.el7_8 

How reproducible:
This is 100% reproducible. I tried it in RHEL 7.8 too.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.yum remove -y firefox

Actual results:
Many errors displayed,Customer wondering why show up this messages in remove. 

Expected results:
Removal should be clean, without any errors. 

Additional info:

Output of attempting to remove firefox:

# yum remove firefox 
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package firefox.x86_64 0:68.11.0-1.el7_8 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=========================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                            Arch                              Version                                       Repository                                      Size
=========================================================================================================================================================================
Removing:
 firefox                            x86_64                            68.11.0-1.el7_8                               @rhel-7-server-rpms                            230 M

Transaction Summary
=========================================================================================================================================================================
Remove  1 Package

Installed size: 230 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Erasing    : firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.x86_64                                                                                                                        1/1 
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-zh.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-zh-TW.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-zh-CN.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-xh.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-vi.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-uz.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ur.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-uk.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-tr.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-th.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-te.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ta.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-sv.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-sv-SE.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-sr.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-sq.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-son.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-sl.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-sk.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-si.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ru.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ro.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-rm.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-pt.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-pt-PT.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-pt-BR.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-pl.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-pa.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-pa-IN.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-oc.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-nn.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-nn-NO.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-nl.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ne-NP.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-nb.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-nb-NO.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-my.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ms.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-mr.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-mk.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-lv.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-lt.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-lij.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ko.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-kn.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-km.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-kk.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-kab.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ka.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ja.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-it.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-is.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-id.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ia.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-hy.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-hy-AM.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-hu.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-hsb.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-hr.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-hi.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-hi-IN.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-he.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-gu.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-gu-IN.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-gn.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-gl.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-gd.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ga.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ga-IE.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-fy.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-fy-NL.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-fr.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-fi.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ff.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-fa.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-eu.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-et.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-es.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-es-MX.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-es-ES.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-es-CL.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-es-AR.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-eo.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-en-GB.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-en-CA.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-el.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-dsb.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-de.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-da.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-cy.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-cs.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-cak.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ca.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-bs.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-br.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-bn.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-bg.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-be.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-az.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ast.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ar.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-an.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-af.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions/langpack-ach.org.xpi: remove failed: No such file or directory
warning: file /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/extensions: remove failed: No such file or directory
  Verifying  : firefox-68.11.0-1.el7_8.x86_64                                                                                                                        1/1 

Removed:
  firefox.x86_64 0:68.11.0-1.el7_8                                                                                                                                       

Complete!

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-30 06:35:53 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 (Important: firefox security and bug fix update), 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4080


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