On 08/20/2017 12:51 AM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> 
>> On 08/17/2017 03:52 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
>>> On 17/08/17 06:30, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> SL 7.3
>>>> firefox-55.0.2.x64.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> tar.bz2?  Is this a downloaded from Mozilla?
>>
>> yup.   I have to be up to date, as I support multiple Windows
>> customers and they all all up to date.
>>
>>>
>>>> Scientific Linux 7.2 (RHEL clone)
>>>> $ cat /etc/redhat-release: Scientific Linux release 7.3 (Nitrogen)
>>>> uname -r: 3.10.0-693.1.1.el7.x86_64
>>>>
>>>> I just ran an update on Scientific Linux 7.3.  Firefox will
>>>> no longer start, including safe mode or the profile manager.
>>>> Firefox goes straight through to the crash reporter.
>          ...        ...
>>>> Any words of wisdom?
> 
>> In the mean time, is there a way to tell YUM to uninstall
>> yesterday's updates?
> 
> You can "rollback" and "undo" "yesterday's" (Wednesday's ?) updates with
> the "yum history" command *if the history_record config option has been 
> set (I don't know whether or not it is set by default)*.
> 
> If not, the packages updated with dates are listed in /var/log/yum.log
> - you could downgrade them explicitly, though the log doesn't (on SL6)
> record the replaced version number so you would have to find those
> some other way.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew C Aitchison                Cambridge,UK

Thank you!



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