Description of Problem: Mozilla installation is badly b0rked. On a freshly installed Alpha (an installation "from scratch" on a just reformatted partition) I see: # mozilla XML Error in file 'file:///usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/all-packages.rdf', Line Number: 151, Col Number: 38, Description: not well-formed Source Line: c:author="PSM Tea0 Segmentation fault Trying 'galeon' for a change I get: # galeon Message: Successfully registered `:0,OAFIID:GNOME:galeon:20010802' XML Error in file 'file:///usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/all-packages.rdf', Line Number: 151, Col Number: 38, Description: not well-formed Source Line: c:author="PSM Tea0 Despite that a usual initial configuration of galeon proceeds but the moment its main window is supposed to show up I get "Error" alert and "Please visit the GNOME Application Crash page...". If I attempt to "Submit a bug report" I get dropped into "Bug Buddy" and now it is "bug-buddy" turn to play weird. Something scrolls very fast through its window and disappears and whatever I type in "Short subject..." field is invariably greeted with "You must include a comprehensible subject line in your bug report" alert while in a terminal window I can see messages like these: /root/1955: No such file or directory. 26 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/waitpid.c: No such file or directory. /usr/share/bug-buddy/gdb-cmd:6: Error in sourced command file: No frame 2 "Cancel" buttons cancels bug-buddy window but a galeon window is stuck and not updated and even killing it does not bring a shell prompt back. Browsing in 'ps' output shows this: VSZ RSS TTY STAT COMMAND 3656 2224 pts/1 S \_ bash 4769680 28896 pts/1 T | \_ /usr/bin/galeon-bin 4769680 28896 pts/1 T | \_ /usr/bin/galeon-bin 4769680 28896 pts/1 T | | \_ /usr/bin/galeon-bin 4769680 28896 pts/1 T | | \_ /usr/bin/galeon-bin 4769680 28896 pts/1 T | | \_ /usr/bin/galeon-bin 0 0 pts/1 Z | \_ [gnome_segv <defunct>] Hm... Only 'kill -9' to galeon-bin resolves the situation and '-9' is _required_. 'rpm --verify mozilla' is silent and 'rpm -qf /usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/all-packages.rdf' prints file /usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/all-packages.rdf is not owned by any package Eh??? OTOH the file /usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/all-packages.rdf is indeed corrupted and xxd shows on a bad fragment 0001e20: 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2063 c 0001e30: 3a61 7574 686f 723d 2250 534d 2054 6561 :author="PSM Tea 0001e40: 3000 0000 0000 0000 730d 0500 0000 3c8f 0.......s.....<. 0001e50: d0ff ffff ffff ffff 23a7 0b00 0000 388f ........#.....8. 0001e60: d801 0000 0000 0000 a403 0a00 0000 3c8f ..............<. 0001e70: cc03 0000 0000 0000 aa03 0a00 0000 3e8f ..............>. 0001e80: 6556 6572 7369 6f6e 3d22 302e 392e 3222 eVersion="0.9.2" 0001e90: 202f 3e0a 2020 3c52 4446 3a44 6573 6372 />. with more corruption here: 0001f70: 6d75 6e69 6361 746f 7220 5368 6172 6564 municator Shared 0001f80: 2000 0000 0000 0000 fd27 0500 0000 3a8f ........'....:. 0001f90: 2071 1f00 0000 0000 4296 0c00 4670 0000 q......B...Fp.. 0001fa0: 2071 1f00 0000 0000 3fdc 0000 45f0 0100 q......?...E... 0001fb0: 4071 1f00 0000 0000 45dc 0000 4500 0200 @q......E...E... 0001fc0: 3a6e 616d 653d 2263 6f6d 6d75 6e69 6361 :name="communica
Due to experiments with Disk Druids and partition tables (see #58569 :-) I reinstalled everything again from scratch and this time files in question were not corrupted. I do not know if I was lucky this time or unlucky previously. Complaints about bug-buddy behaviour (#58503) are still valid.
OK.