firefox-1.5.0.2-2.1.c4.centos.i386.rpm in the testing repo produces this error when running it as non-rrot and also as root
Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well formed or does not exist. Please contact the author about this problem.
How to reproduce this message :-
1. download and upgrade firefox-1.5.0.2-2.1.c4.centos.i386.rpm from the testing repo
2. erase the previous firefox 1.5.0.1 from centosplus and install the new one. It still gives this error message.
$ rpm -qi firefox Name : firefox Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 1.5.0.2 Vendor: CentOS Release : 2.1.c4.centos Build Date: Tue 18 Apr 2006 21:37:35 BST Install Date: Wed 19 Apr 2006 10:59:22 BST Build Host: build-i386 Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM: firefox-1.5.0.2-2.1.c4.centos.src.rpm Size : 32322001 License: MPL/LGPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 18 Apr 2006 21:45:29 BST, Key ID a53d0bab443e1821 Packager : Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser. Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.
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On 4/19/06, Mike Stankovic mlists2006@yahoo.com wrote:
firefox-1.5.0.2-2.1.c4.centos.i386.rpm in the testing repo produces this error when running it as non-rrot and also as root
Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well formed or does not exist. Please contact the author about this problem.
That's why it's in the "testing" repository :-P Johnny has been working with getting this package to build properly, and that's one of the trials. Once it's working properly it'll be moved to centosplus as an update to the firefox package there.
-- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke
--- Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/19/06, Mike Stankovic mlists2006@yahoo.com wrote:
firefox-1.5.0.2-2.1.c4.centos.i386.rpm in the
testing
repo produces this error when running it as
non-rrot
and also as root
Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well formed or does not exist. Please contact the
author
about this problem.
That's why it's in the "testing" repository :-P Johnny has been working with getting this package to build properly, and that's one of the trials. Once it's working properly it'll be moved to centosplus as an update to the firefox package there.
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Yip i figured out that it was in there for testing and so i was duly providing some feedback.
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Mike Stankovic wrote:
--- Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/19/06, Mike Stankovic mlists2006@yahoo.com wrote:
firefox-1.5.0.2-2.1.c4.centos.i386.rpm in the
testing
repo produces this error when running it as
non-rrot
and also as root
Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well formed or does not exist. Please contact the
author
about this problem.
That's why it's in the "testing" repository :-P Johnny has been working with getting this package to build properly, and that's one of the trials. Once it's working properly it'll be moved to centosplus as an update to the firefox package there
Yip i figured out that it was in there for testing and so i was duly providing some feedback.
cross posting is considered a waste, dont do it - testing and devel stuff is best handled in the centos-devel list, so keep it there.
thanks
- KB
--- Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
cross posting is considered a waste, dont do it - testing and devel stuff is best handled in the centos-devel list, so keep it there.
thanks
- KB
-- Karanbir Singh :
It is fairly obvious that a handful of people are subscribed to centos-devel list but many more are likely to have tested the rpm in question.
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It is fairly obvious that a handful of people are subscribed to centos-devel list but many more are likely to have tested the rpm in question.
Then they should subscribe to the -devel list and play by culturally acceptable rules. :-P
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Yip i figured out that it was in there for testing and so i was duly providing some feedback.
The feedback is very much welcomed, however in this case it was a touch premature. Excellent effort though. Thank you.
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Mike Stankovic wrote:
firefox-1.5.0.2-2.1.c4.centos.i386.rpm in the testing repo produces this error when running it as non-rrot and also as root
Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well formed or does not exist. Please contact the author about this problem.
How to reproduce this message :-
- download and upgrade
firefox-1.5.0.2-2.1.c4.centos.i386.rpm from the testing repo
- erase the previous firefox 1.5.0.1 from centosplus
and install the new one. It still gives this error message.
$ rpm -qi firefox Name : firefox Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 1.5.0.2 Vendor: CentOS Release : 2.1.c4.centos Build Date: Tue 18 Apr 2006 21:37:35 BST Install Date: Wed 19 Apr 2006 10:59:22 BST Build Host: build-i386 Group : Applications/Internet Source RPM: firefox-1.5.0.2-2.1.c4.centos.src.rpm Size : 32322001 License: MPL/LGPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 18 Apr 2006 21:45:29 BST, Key ID a53d0bab443e1821 Packager : Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser. Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.
this isnt a released pkg. we're aware of this issue ( amongst others ) and working to get it out asap.
[I'm not on the devel list, so I'm not attempting to post this there.]
On 4/19/06, Mike Stankovic mlists2006@yahoo.com wrote:
Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well formed or does not exist. Please contact the author about this problem.
This has something to do with one or more extensions. Even with 1.5.0.1 I was having problems with firefox crashing on startup whenever an extension was added or removed. When I installed 1.5.0.2 from the testing repository I got the install.rdf message, so I tried uninistalling and re-installing all my extensions (except the default language packs and DOM inspector) and now the startup-time crashes have stopped.
I do have one problem which began with 1.5.0.1 and persists in 1.5.0.2, which is that occassionally when downloading a file, firefox crashes when opening the file in an external application. With 1.5.0.1 it would crash after starting the app, but in 1.5.0.2 it crashes before the app is launched. This doesn't happen consistently, and it's only happening to me on CentOS 4.3 -- I have 3.7 on another machine and external viewers work fine there. It seems to be related to chosing "Other..." from the "What should firefox do with this" dialog and then navigating to an alternate viewer -- I've never seen a crash when accepting the default application.
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:35 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
[I'm not on the devel list, so I'm not attempting to post this there.]
On 4/19/06, Mike Stankovic mlists2006@yahoo.com wrote:
Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well formed or does not exist. Please contact the author about this problem.
This has something to do with one or more extensions. Even with 1.5.0.1 I was having problems with firefox crashing on startup whenever an extension was added or removed. When I installed 1.5.0.2 from the testing repository I got the install.rdf message, so I tried uninistalling and re-installing all my extensions (except the default language packs and DOM inspector) and now the startup-time crashes have stopped.
The problem is with the language packs ... this is also not working correctly on FC5 (which is where this package is coming from) ...
we will (of course) make the 1.5 Firefox available as soon as possible ... it may not have the language packs installed though.
It will then NOT need to be downloaded separately, but wil be yum upgradable ... which the current RPMS are NOT.
We want to get this out ASAP ... but it does not work now :)
I do have one problem which began with 1.5.0.1 and persists in 1.5.0.2, which is that occassionally when downloading a file, firefox crashes when opening the file in an external application. With 1.5.0.1 it would crash after starting the app, but in 1.5.0.2 it crashes before the app is launched. This doesn't happen consistently, and it's only happening to me on CentOS 4.3 -- I have 3.7 on another machine and external viewers work fine there. It seems to be related to chosing "Other..." from the "What should firefox do with this" dialog and then navigating to an alternate viewer -- I've never seen a crash when accepting the default application.
Understand that the 1.5 firefox for FC5 (the first RH release of 1.5) is built to run with components (cairo, a newer pango) that are not in CentOS-4 ... it therefore requires some fairly significant changes from the source provided to work w/CentOS-4.
--- Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:35 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
[I'm not on the devel list, so I'm not attempting
to post this there.]
On 4/19/06, Mike Stankovic mlists2006@yahoo.com
wrote:
Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well formed or does not exist. Please contact the
author
about this problem.
This has something to do with one or more
extensions. Even with
1.5.0.1 I was having problems with firefox
crashing on startup
whenever an extension was added or removed. When
I installed 1.5.0.2
from the testing repository I got the install.rdf
message, so I tried
uninistalling and re-installing all my extensions
(except the default
language packs and DOM inspector) and now the
startup-time crashes
have stopped.
The problem is with the language packs ... this is also not working correctly on FC5 (which is where this package is coming from) ...
we will (of course) make the 1.5 Firefox available as soon as possible ... it may not have the language packs installed though.
It will then NOT need to be downloaded separately, but wil be yum upgradable ... which the current RPMS are NOT.
We want to get this out ASAP ... but it does not work now :)
I do have one problem which began with 1.5.0.1 and
persists in
1.5.0.2, which is that occassionally when
downloading a file, firefox
crashes when opening the file in an external
application. With
1.5.0.1 it would crash after starting the app, but
in 1.5.0.2 it
crashes before the app is launched. This doesn't
happen consistently,
and it's only happening to me on CentOS 4.3 -- I
have 3.7 on another
machine and external viewers work fine there. It
seems to be related
to chosing "Other..." from the "What should
firefox do with this"
dialog and then navigating to an alternate viewer
-- I've never seen a
crash when accepting the default application.
Understand that the 1.5 firefox for FC5 (the first RH release of 1.5) is built to run with components (cairo, a newer pango) that are not in CentOS-4 ... it therefore requires some fairly significant changes from the source provided to work w/CentOS-4.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Funnily enough i saw the firefox complaints on fedora-list but along with the other fc5-related complaints, i thought it was fc5 only.
THe upstream developer's page (explaining the issue) cannot open possibly because of being linked to on the fedora-list.
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On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 11:25 -0700, Mike Stankovic wrote:
Funnily enough i saw the firefox complaints on fedora-list but along with the other fc5-related complaints, i thought it was fc5 only.
THe upstream developer's page (explaining the issue) cannot open possibly because of being linked to on the fedora-list.
Since this is already posted in the main list, we have fixed the issues with the language packs (including 2 that were still present in the new version) ... and the version:
firefox-1.5.0.2-3.c4.centos is released in CentOSPlus for the i386 and x86_64 arches.
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-April/012833.html
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-April/012834.html
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On 4/19/06, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
I do have one problem which began with 1.5.0.1 and persists in 1.5.0.2, which is that occassionally when downloading a file, firefox crashes when opening the file in an external application. With 1.5.0.1 it would crash after starting the app, but in 1.5.0.2 it crashes before the app is launched. This doesn't happen consistently, and it's only happening to me on CentOS 4.3 -- I have 3.7 on another machine and external viewers work fine there. It seems to be related to chosing "Other..." from the "What should firefox do with this" dialog and then navigating to an alternate viewer -- I've never seen a crash when accepting the default application.
I see the same crash using firefox and thunderbird both starting with version 1.5 using the standard mozilla.org distribution. For the mozilla.org packages the crash happens every time I select to open the file using another application than the default. The crash happens just after the file selection dialog is closed and before the application is launched. This happens in CentOS 4.x and Mandrake 10.1 but not on distributions with newer gtk.
Radu
Radu Radutiu wrote:
On 4/19/06, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
I do have one problem which began with 1.5.0.1 and persists in 1.5.0.2, which is that occassionally when downloading a file, firefox crashes when opening the file in an external application.
I see the same crash using firefox and thunderbird both starting with version 1.5 using the standard mozilla.org distribution.
can you confirm this problem persists with the newst 1.5.0.2-3.c4 from the CentOS Plus repo on a standard CentOS4 install ? I dont seem to be able to reproduce this issue at all.
Sorry, I've just installed FC 5 on my desktop machine. The only CentOS installations I have now are on servers without X.
Radu
On 4/21/06, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Radu Radutiu wrote:
On 4/19/06, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
I do have one problem which began with 1.5.0.1 and persists in 1.5.0.2, which is that occassionally when downloading a file, firefox crashes when opening the file in an external application.
I see the same crash using firefox and thunderbird both starting with version 1.5 using the standard mozilla.org distribution.
can you confirm this problem persists with the newst 1.5.0.2-3.c4 from the CentOS Plus repo on a standard CentOS4 install ? I dont seem to be able to reproduce this issue at all.
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On 4/21/06, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
can you confirm this problem persists with the newst 1.5.0.2-3.c4 from the CentOS Plus repo on a standard CentOS4 install ? I dont seem to be able to reproduce this issue at all.
I can confirm that it still happens, though while testing it I got some more details.
The circumstances required appear to be (1) that after navigating to the external application in the file browser, you double-click on the application file rather than selecting the file and then clicking on "Open", and (2) that there is more than one tab open (in at least one window) at the time the external app is used. Whether the Web Developer extension is also involved I'm no longer sure -- I don't have time right now to go through that exercise again, but will try later if it would be helpful.
On 4/21/06, Radu Radutiu rradutiu@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/19/06, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
I do have one problem which began with 1.5.0.1 and persists in 1.5.0.2, which is that occassionally when downloading a file, firefox crashes when opening the file in an external application.
I see the same crash using firefox and thunderbird both starting with version 1.5 using the standard mozilla.org distribution.
Do you / did you by any chance have the Web Developer extension installed? I tried uninstalling all my extensions (except language packs) and then re-installing them one by one, and I can only get the crash with any reliability when Web Developer is installed. I've corresponded with the author, but he says WD doesn't do anything that affects file download or running of external applications (and he's not a linux guy so he didn't have any other useful suggestions for me except to try again with a newly-created profile).
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