Jon Peatfield wrote: > Today while checking something else I noticed that on the 15th TUV > released 'firefox stability update' and 'thunderbird stability update' > packages. > > Reading the announcements (and bugzilla entries) I see the following > statements: > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0147.html > > A stability bug was found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Firefox > packages released in RHSA-2008:0103. These packages were linked against > an incorrect version of a library which would cause Firefox to randomly > crash while the browser was in use. > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0148.html > > A stability bug was found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Thunderbird > packages released in RHSA-2008:0105. These packages were linked against > an incorrect version of a library which would cause Thunderbird to > randomly crash while in use. > > Now in both cases the updated srpm includes an additional patch but no > *obvious* changes to the libraries that the code will link against. > > The only explanation I have managed to come up with is that they have > changed their build-environment in some way - different default > packages in their brewbuilder setup perhaps. Does this seem at all > likely? > > Does anyone have a better explanation of what the incorrect-library > linking issue might actually be? > > Now we have users complaining (some quite bitterly) about random > crashes of both firefox and thunderbird and this *seems* to have got > noticably worse about 2 months ago - at least judging by the number of > reports we get via our help-desk. Personally I've not seen any > problems but then I mostly still use the seamonkey on SL3x and don't > touch tbird except to check that it runs :-) > > Anyway tomorrow I'm going to try building ffox/tbird from the updated > srpms in the hope that either my rpm build-environment (I've not got > anything fancy yet) is good-enough or the extra patches help in some way. > We have also a lot of complains since a few weeks here. I observed many crashes of firefox and thunderbird recently on my system. It would be nice, if somebody could compare firefox/thunderbird rebuild from srpms with these "new" firefox/thunderbird running on a RHEL5 system.