On 02/20/12 13:29, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Before someone states that this is not a Scientific Linux issue, as it 
> seems to be restricted to this distribution (perhaps other EL 
> distributions as well), this issue would seem to qualify.
>
> Rather than using the Mozilla packages that exist within the 
> distribution repository, I use the production (not testing or beta) 
> installations from Mozilla:  firefox, thunderbird/lightning, and 
> seamonkey, currently 10.0.2 except SeaMonkey 2.7.2.
>
> My laptop and workstation are operating environment identical except 
> that my laptop is IA-32 SL6x and my workstation is X86-64 SL6x (and 
> there are some hardware differences reflected in driver differences). 
> On my workstation, as root, I can update any of the Mozilla 
> applications I have mentioned within a major release (e.g., 10.0.1 to 
> 10.0.2) from within the application.  However, on my laptop, this 
> generally fails and I must download a new tar.bz2 file that I must 
> unpack into the appropriate directory.  Does anyone have an idea on 
> what is the reason?  Note that my mozilla configuration files between 
> the two platforms are the same in so far as I have any control over 
> these (e.g., visitation to different URLs from firefox or seamonkey 
> might have different cookies, etc., loaded -- but all URLs are either 
> mandated by my university or from "clean" sites).
>
> I have done a cursory check of the mozilla public lists but have found 
> nothing of relevance.
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
> Yasha Karant
Could you start firefox from a terminal, try the internal update 
process, and see if any usefull information is given in the terminal?  
Sure sounds like a permission problem;  but you said you are using 
root?  You should be able to destroy anything as root:)

Chris