CentOS - Sep 2008 - fix firefox?

I once had firefox x86_64 installed (because it was the default).
But that one has problems with plugins (flash, java), which are
much easily solved by using the i386 version.
So I unstalled firefox, and installed it again using:

   yum install firefox.i386

This worked, and even the plugins worked fine afterwards.

I did have some problems when uninstalling, because yum insisted
on a whole load of dependencies going up to uninstalling the package
'firstboot' (wow!).  However I can't remember the exact details
anymore.
I do not remember having to force anything; just reinstall a little
bit more than I was expecting to.
I do remember that after the erase/install, no particular problems
were left and I used firefox since then without any problems.

Today came the update for firefox 3.0.2.

So I did "yum update".  The depencies included xulrunner and devhelp.

However, yum complained about a conflict between xulrunner 1.9.0.1
being incompatible.  So I erased xulrunner first (yum erase xulrunner).

And then installed firefox again:

   yum install firefox.i386

it pulls in xulrunner as well, but two different versions for two different
architectures (???):

============================================================================ 
Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
============================================================================Installing:
  firefox                 i386       3.0.2-3.el5.centos  updates            11 M
Installing for dependencies:
  xulrunner               x86_64     1.9.0.2-5.el5    updates            10 M
  xulrunner               i386       1.9.0.1-1.el5_2  updates            10 M

and afterwards firefox complains:

  $ firefox
  Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.2 and 1.9.0.2.

Any idea how to fix the fox?


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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Paul Bijnens
<Paul.Bijnens at xplanation.com> wrote:
>
> Today came the update for firefox 3.0.2.
>
> So I did "yum update".  The depencies included xulrunner and
devhelp.
>
> However, yum complained about a conflict between xulrunner 1.9.0.1
> being incompatible.  So I erased xulrunner first (yum erase xulrunner).
>
> And then installed firefox again:
>
>  yum install firefox.i386
>
> it pulls in xulrunner as well, but two different versions for two different
> architectures (???):
>
>
============================================================================>
Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
>
============================================================================>
Installing:
>  firefox                 i386       3.0.2-3.el5.centos  updates
>  11 M
> Installing for dependencies:
>  xulrunner               x86_64     1.9.0.2-5.el5    updates            10
M
>  xulrunner               i386       1.9.0.1-1.el5_2  updates            10
M
I see xulrunner-1.9.0.2-5.el5.i386.rpm in the i386 tree.  Maybe, this
should have been included in the x86_64 tree as well ?

Akemi

Paul Bijnens wrote:
>   yum install firefox.i386
> 
> it pulls in xulrunner as well, but two different versions for two different
> architectures (???):
My mistake. I did fix it immediately, but it takes 30 min or so for the 
changes to filter through.

What happened :

the xulrunner and xulrunner-devel multilib pkgset missed the update, and 
the metadata update got run from the script. I realised it immediate and 
reran the script - but by that time the first set of mirrors had already 
done the sync ( it takes about 10 min for the script to run ).

Give it an hour, then try again - it should work as expected.

I've also put in a check to make sure this does not happen again.

- KB