mozilla does not uninstall or upgrade cleanly. I installed 8.0, which put: mozilla-1.0.1-24 mozilla-chat-1.0.1-24 mozilla-mail-1.0.1-24 mozilla-nspr-1.0.1-24 mozilla-nss-1.0.1-24 mozilla-psm-1.0.1-24 on the system. I then upgraded to mozilla-1.1 (rpm -Fvh on the corresponding mozilla-1.1 rpms). This left me with the following remnants of Mozilla 1.0.1, now unowned by any RPM, that mozilla-1.0.1 put on the system but did not uninstall as it should have when I upgraded: [kaboom@skuld mozilla-1.0.1]$ ls -lR /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/ /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/: total 20 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 16 15:36 chrome drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Sep 16 15:36 components drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 16 15:36 defaults drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 16 15:36 res /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome: total 36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29856 Sep 14 03:58 chrome.rdf drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 overlayinfo /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo: total 20 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 communicator drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 cookie drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 editor drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 messenger drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 navigator /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator/content: total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1592 Sep 14 03:58 overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo/cookie: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo/cookie/content: total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 491 Sep 14 03:58 overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo/editor: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo/editor/content: total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 562 Sep 14 03:58 overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo/messenger: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo/messenger/content: total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1784 Sep 14 03:58 overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 03:58 content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator/content: total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 856 Sep 14 03:58 overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/components: total 0 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/defaults: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 16 15:36 autoconfig /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/defaults/autoconfig: total 0 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/res: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 16 15:36 dtd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 16 15:36 fonts /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/res/dtd: total 0 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/res/fonts: total 0 [kaboom@skuld mozilla-1.0.1]$
This is still broken with RHL 9 and mozilla-1.2.1. After I uninstalled mozilla-1.2.1, I still had: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/: chrome defaults res components /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome: icons overlayinfo chrome.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/icons: default /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/icons/default: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo: communicator navigator messenger inspector editor cookie /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator: content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator/content: overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator: content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator/content: overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/messenger: content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/messenger/content: overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/inspector: content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/inspector/content: overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/editor: content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/editor/content: overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/cookie: content /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/overlayinfo/cookie/content: overlays.rdf /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/defaults: autoconfig pref /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/defaults/autoconfig: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/defaults/pref: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/res: dtd fonts inspector /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/res/dtd: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/res/fonts: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/res/inspector: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/components: left behind on the system....
*** Bug 114475 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 136197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 143481 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 81022 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Gurgle. Will get this fixed in devel soon.
Just checked in specfile changes to the package to own the files we have. Will be fixed in mozilla-1.7.7-4
This problem either persists or has recurred. Upgrading from mozilla 1.7.12 to 1.7.13 leaves a bunch of directories around.