[CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

[William L. Maltby]

On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:42 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
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> I ran an rpm --verify, as root. I didn't see anything that _I_ could
> relate to the problem, but my insight is limited here. I do note that
> some errors have crept in over time that I will now need to pursue.

Started checking some of the rpm --verify errors. Google returned a link
that mentioned libgtkembedmoz.so in relation to an xulrunner error when
trying to prelink. Discovered this. Big size and date difference.

# locate libgtkembedmoz
/usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libgtkembedmoz.so
/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libgtkembedmoz.so

# ls -l `locate libgtkembedmoz`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  97612 May 24
2008 /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libgtkembedmoz.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121172 Nov 20
09:12 /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libgtkembedmoz.so

Since ATM I don't know what these libraries do, I wondered if it might
be related to the problem.

# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libgtkembedmoz.so
esc-1.0.0-33.el5
# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libgtkembedmoz.so
thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.el5.centos

I didn't want to re-install xulrunner just to fix the prelink as it
would muddy the waters.

# rpm -q --whatrequires xulrunner
firefox-3.0.4-1.el5.centos


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-- 
Bill