CentOS - Mar 2008 - New firefox causing anyone else problems - CentOS 4.X?

Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is
not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else
seeing any problems?

BTW, running the recent Java console from sun that was detailed in
another thread a week or two back with Firefox. Had NP prior to the
latest update, if that offers any useful info. Would like to test the
openjdk for us if it's applicable to 4.x. If not, I can still test it on
the 5.x machine.

# uname -a
Linux centos01.homegroannetworking 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL #1 Sat Mar 15
06:19:12 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>From rpm -qa --last:
krb5-workstation-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1             Thu Mar 27 14:14:55 2008
krb5-devel-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1                   Thu Mar 27 14:14:51 2008
krb5-server-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1                  Thu Mar 27 14:14:49 2008
firefox-1.5.0.12-0.14.el4.centos              Thu Mar 27 14:14:39 2008
krb5-libs-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1                    Thu Mar 27 14:14:16 2008
jre-1.6.0_05-fcs                              Mon Mar 17 09:13:36 2008
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL              Sun Mar 16 06:02:20 2008
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL          Sun Mar 16 06:01:42 2008
kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL                    Sun Mar 16 06:01:35 2008
kernel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL                        Sun Mar 16 06:01:21 2008
kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL                  Sun Mar 16 06:00:00 2008
>From the messages log: (sorry about the wrapping)
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: Modules linked in: loop vfat fat radeon
md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core sunrpc
ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables dm_multipath
button battery ac sd_mod usb_storage scsi_mod uhci_hcd ehci_hcd
snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer
snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore
8139too mii floppy dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror ext3 jbd dm_mod
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: CPU:    0
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: EIP:    0060:[<0028f705>]    Not
tainted VLI
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206   (2.6.9-67.0.4.EL)
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: EIP is at 0x28f705
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: eax: f4360de0   ebx: f4360de0   ecx:
0028f705  edx: e0125fa0
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: esi: 00000145   edi: f634ce00   ebp:
00000003  esp: e0125f48
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: Process firefox-bin (pid: 21366,
threadinfo=e0125000 task=f4499870)
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: Stack: c0182962 e0125f6c 00000009
f634cde0 00000003 e0125fa0 f634cde0 c01829e5
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel:        e0125f70 e0125fa0 00000000
00000000 f634cde0 0c0e5958 00000009 c0182c09
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel:        00000003 00000bb7 f634cde0
f634cde0 00000000 fffffff4 c018201d cd499000
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel:  [<c0182962>] do_pollfd+0x47/0x81
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel:  [<c01829e5>] do_poll+0x49/0xab
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel:  [<c0182c09>] sys_poll+0x1c2/0x279
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel:  [<c018201d>] __pollwait+0x0/0x94
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel:  [<c01291d1>] sys_gettimeofday
+0x53/0xac
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel:  [<c031d8eb>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: Code:  Bad EIP value.
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel:  <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds

-- 
Bill

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 19:34 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is
> not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else
> seeing any problems?
> 
> BTW, running the recent Java console from sun that was detailed in
> another thread a week or two back with Firefox. Had NP prior to the
> latest update, if that offers any useful info. Would like to test the
> openjdk for us if it's applicable to 4.x. If not, I can still test it
on
> the 5.x machine.
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux centos01.homegroannetworking 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL #1 Sat Mar 15
> 06:19:12 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> >From rpm -qa --last:
> 
> krb5-workstation-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1             Thu Mar 27 14:14:55 2008
> krb5-devel-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1                   Thu Mar 27 14:14:51 2008
> krb5-server-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1                  Thu Mar 27 14:14:49 2008
> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.14.el4.centos              Thu Mar 27 14:14:39 2008
> krb5-libs-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1                    Thu Mar 27 14:14:16 2008
> jre-1.6.0_05-fcs                              Mon Mar 17 09:13:36 2008
> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL              Sun Mar 16 06:02:20 2008
> kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL          Sun Mar 16 06:01:42 2008
> kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL                    Sun Mar 16 06:01:35 2008
> kernel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL                        Sun Mar 16 06:01:21 2008
> kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL                  Sun Mar 16 06:00:00 2008
> 
> >From the messages log: (sorry about the wrapping)
> 
> Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
NB: Maybe this is related?

http://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/com.redhat.rhsa-2008.xml

The google "header" is

Red Hat OVAL Patch Definition Merger 2 5.3 2008-03-27T19:20:03 ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, ..... a general fault protection, a NULL pointer
dereference, ...

This seems to indicate a 3/27 update.

> <snip rest of kernel issues log>
-- 
Bill

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM, William L. Maltby
<CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is
>  not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else
>  seeing any problems?
I've had FF running on my CentOS 4 desktop for a little over 2 days
now, continuously, with no problems.  However, I *don't* have the JRE
package installed, and I use the centosplus kernel.