Description of problem: I assume this is due to having mismatched versions of something in our build and not an actual firefox bug. Firefox was working a few weeks ago in our rawhide tree. When starting firefox on ia64 it fails with: Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9b5pre and 1.9b5pre. We would appreciate any suggestions as to what may be missing or mismatched here. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-3.0-0.55.beta5.fc9.ia64 xulrunner-1.9-0.55.beta5.fc9.ia64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. attempt to start firefox on ia64 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
From Yi Zhan on fedora-ia64-committee list, "It's not a version mismatching, just we build the firefox and xulrunner in a wrong order (we missing xulrunner 1.95b5 builds for quite a while and then catch up). It could be easy resolved in the rawhide tree. For beta, a workaround is to manually changed the "Gecko" section in /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/application.ini: form [Gecko] MinVersion=1.9b5pre MaxVersion=1.9b5pre to [Gecko] MinVersion=1.9b5pre MaxVersion=1.9b5 I have tried this, firefox should work then. Since the issue should be fixed in today's rawhide, another workaround is to encourage people to update firefox to the rawhide version before using it."
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping