Bug 730460 - after yum update firefox does not start
Summary: after yum update firefox does not start
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-13 08:26 UTC by Paul van Maaren
Modified: 2011-08-13 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-08-13 22:10:10 UTC
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Description Paul van Maaren 2011-08-13 08:26:16 UTC 
Description of problem:

After yum update firefox does nolonger start

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -qf `which firefox`
firefox-5.0-2.fc15.i686

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type: firefox
2. nothing happens
3.
  
Actual results:
firefox does not start

Expected results:
firefox starts

Additional info:
When I ran: strace firefox I got a popup abrt message of a crash in xulrunner, which crashed itself...
Comment 1 Paul van Maaren 2011-08-13 22:10:10 UTC 
Further research of the system learned that  /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.4 was corrupted. After yum reinstall gtk2 everything works again.
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