[CentOS] New firefox causing anyone else problems - CentOS 4.X?

[William L. Maltby]

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