Bug 435857 - firefox (i386) missing dependency on nss-mdns
Summary: firefox (i386) missing dependency on nss-mdns
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-04 06:46 UTC by Rick Wagner
Modified: 2008-03-08 07:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-03-05 10:48:00 UTC
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Description Rick Wagner 2008-03-04 06:46:10 UTC
Running Fedora-8 x86_64, with firefox.i386 (firefox-2.0.0.12-1.fc8.src.rpm).

In cleaning up what appeared to be unused packages, I removed nss-mdns.i386, 
via either RPM or yum.  The package was removed without dependency errors.

Later firefox.i386 stopped working.  The application would load, but it would 
not resolve host addresses.  Through some trial and error, I reinstalled 
nss-mdns, and firefox started working again.

It appears that the firefox packages is missing a dependency on nss-mdns.

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2008-03-05 10:48:00 UTC
nss-mdns is not installed by default, i don't have this package and firefox
works fine.

Comment 2 Rick Wagner 2008-03-06 18:06:27 UTC
Hmmm.  For me, without it, Firefox does not work.  The app loads, but can't 
resolve any addresses.  Remove the package, Firefox stops working.  Reinstall 
it, it works again.  Some how, my installation of Firefox (straight from 
Fedora repos) does not work without the package.

Is your configuration x86_64, with FF i386?

Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2008-03-07 08:55:38 UTC
> The app loads, but can't resolve any addresses.

Are you really sure it's a problem in firefox? What about any other apps? Can
you ever resolve any dns name w/o this package?

Comment 4 Rick Wagner 2008-03-08 07:47:17 UTC
OK, I found the root problem.  Something, I assume nss-mdns, 
changed /etc/nsswitch.conf.  I don't know why it only affected firefox; 
everything else was working fine: Konqueror, ktorrent, mail...  I mostly use 
Konqueror, it was just when I needed FF for one of those sites that Konq 
doesn't work with, that I saw the problem.

So it appears to not be a FF problem.  Sorry for the false alarm.


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