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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
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> 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
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>> 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.
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>> Running ff from the command line gives:
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>> (firefox:19909): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref:
>> assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed
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>> ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 20002
>>
>> Any words of wisdom?
>
> If you're trying to run a Firefox binary not built for EL7, that build
> may depend on a glib2 library version not being available on the EL7
> system. The GLib-GObject reference indicates ABI incompatibilities, and
> that is related to glib2.
>
> You will most likely have far better success by downloading the latest
> firefox src.rpm (yumdownloader --source firefox) and download the
> Mozilla Firefox 55 source tarball. Unpack the source RPM, replace the
> source tarball with the one from Firefox (including updating
> firefox.spec with proper versions and source references) and do a mock
> build. It'll compile for quite some time (beefy hardware helps, with
> CPU power, lots of RAM and fast harddrives). Then try to install the
> freshly built x86_64.rpm.
That may be what I have to do.
In the mean time, is there a way to tell YUM to uninstall
yesterday's updates?
Thank you for the help!
-T
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