[Gllug] Mozilla 1.3 SRPM on RedHat 7.2

[James de Lurker]

Hi Folks

   I was hoping that someone might be able to shed some light
on why the latest 1.3-0 Redhat Packaged SRPM release won't work on
my RedHat 7.2 System. And what I can do (non destructively for user
email and news profiles!!) to investigate a bit further. No errors
in syslog ( that is all that I checked, before rolling back to 1.0.1 )
Tripwire generated a report faithfully showing the changes, but it
didn't really give me any obvious clues.

  The SPEC file in the SRPM package does disclose that some mozilla
libraries have been moved around since 1.0, but I wasn't expecting
any problems with mozilla itself, only the integration with the last
RedHat production release of Galeon ( 1.2.6-0.7.2 )


SUMMARY OF PROBLEM

   rpm -Uv --test mozilla*ix86.rpm showed no errors, so I went ahead
and upgraded to the i686 1.3.0-0 packages using rpm -Uvh. OK.

Trying any of the existing KDE 2.2.2 desktop icons / shortcuts just
gave the little flashing mozilla icon for an extended time, then it
went away. Nada. The profile selection dialog window doesn't appear.
Nothing appears to run.

root has no profiles defined; same thing happens. Mozilla would usually
come up with the default mozilla browser "RedHat" branded full size window.

Whenever I upgraded the Production release binaries that I built i686
  locally in the past - no issues whatsoever doing rpm -Uv from the 0.9
series.

Then I did rpm -Uvh --force mozilla*i386.rpm to try the default spec
file built rpms. Same problem.

Back to the regular last official SRPM -> i686 Redhat packages of
1.0.1-2.7.2, using rpm -Uvh --force <Redhat rhn site>mozilla*.rpm

Thankfully, its back doing it stuff again, way better than any of my
Windows / Netscape 4 / Mozilla desktop boxes. But I want to play with the
cool new features in 1.3-0 :-(


MORE INFO

   This desktop system is a fully installed RedHat 7.2 box; there are
three user desktops, including a default root one which is used
for testing, should there be privalege issues to resolve with user
application setups.

   One user (me) has five profiles set up for mozilla, including the
default one. Another user (linda) has two specially defined profiles
in addition to the default one. Both users start from a profile
selection dialogue.

   No way do I want to go through the grief of setting this all up
from scratch! A complete uninstall / install should not be necessary.
0.9 > 1.0 rpm upgrade with packages from RedHat's rhn site was fine.

   I built i386 arch rpms from the mozilla RH7 SRPM ( which didn't have
an i686 arch in the definition list ) - then I edited the SPEC file to
make it possible to build some i686 ones, too:

Name:        mozilla
Summary:     Web browser and mail reader
Version:     1.3
Release:     0.1ijm_rh7
Serial:      35
Copyright:   MPL
Source0:     mozilla-source-1.3.tar.bz2
[..]
ExclusiveArch: i386 i686 s390 s390x x86_64 ppc
[..]
                     ^^^^
%package nspr
Summary: Netscape Portable Runtime
Group: Applications/Internet
Conflicts: mozilla < 0.9.9

( Fine: I'm using RedHat's rhn site 1.0.1-2.7.2 as the last production
      release )

I can webspace the entire SPEC file, or email it to an rpm person that
really wants to read the entire thing. ( 22K of text ) I could also post
the thing complete here ( but only by popular demand! <G> ) Downloading
a 30Meg SRPM just for patchfile and specfile content is for masochists,
or those blessed with broadband

Don't think that the issues are with the building process, though.
Must be something more fundamental. An orphaned desktop link should have
thrown up an error message. Binaries ought to be in the same place!

Any ideas from RedHat 7.2 / mozilla / rpm experienced types would be great,
particularly people in the same boat, that want to upgrade, but may
grow too old waiting for production FTP site releases to 7.x ...

( Mo "change / upgrade distributions" suggestions - _please!_ No can do )

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   -- James

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