On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:> On 01/11/2015 01:42 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:>> Are you referring to this thread by any chance? >> >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-December/148445.html >> >> The upstream bugzilla referenced in there is now private but I >> provided the known workaround. Have you tried it? It worked for me and >> others. > > Downgrading nss-softokn to 3.14.3-17.el6 does _not_ solve the issue for > me. Thunderbird still segfaults frequently on startup. > > -- > Bob NicholsJust to be sure, I recommend you reboot the system. In my case that was necessary (it seems). Akemi
On 01/11/2015 10:08 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Robert Nichols > <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote: >> On 01/11/2015 01:42 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > >>> Are you referring to this thread by any chance? >>> >>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-December/148445.html >>> >>> The upstream bugzilla referenced in there is now private but I >>> provided the known workaround. Have you tried it? It worked for me and >>> others. >> >> Downgrading nss-softokn to 3.14.3-17.el6 does _not_ solve the issue for >> me. Thunderbird still segfaults frequently on startup. >> >> -- >> Bob Nichols > > Just to be sure, I recommend you reboot the system. In my case that > was necessary (it seems).I did reboot. After some experimenting, I found it was the _library_ package, nss-softokn-freebl, that needs to be downgraded to 3.14.3-17.el6. Surprisingly, the newer nss-softokn-3.14.3-10.el6_6 is happy to coexist with that older library. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.
On Sun, January 11, 2015 10:08 am, Akemi Yagi wrote:> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Robert Nichols > <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote: >> On 01/11/2015 01:42 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > >>> Are you referring to this thread by any chance? >>> >>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-December/148445.html >>> >>> The upstream bugzilla referenced in there is now private but I >>> provided the known workaround. Have you tried it? It worked for me and >>> others. >> >> Downgrading nss-softokn to 3.14.3-17.el6 does _not_ solve the issue for >> me. Thunderbird still segfaults frequently on startup. >> >> -- >> Bob Nichols > > Just to be sure, I recommend you reboot the system. In my case that > was necessary (it seems). >Oh, boy. We do seem to have to treat Linux like Windows these days and _reboot_ after any update, not only kernel or glibc update. So much for "Unix-like", sigh ;-( Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On 01/11/2015 12:13 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:> > Oh, boy. We do seem to have to treat Linux like Windows these days and > _reboot_ after any update, not only kernel or glibc update. So much for > "Unix-like", sigh ;-(When you are trying to track down unexplained and only semi-repeatable behavior, you have to know that you are starting from a known state. Heck, I did at least 5 re-installs of the OS during the course of this. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.