On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 10:17 -0600, Hugh Brown wrote: > Les wrote: > > I started with an evolution configuration error, and now a > > Firefox/Mozilla configuration error, so it appears to me that this might > > be a system level error. Maybe some file or directory permissions > > issue, or perhaps a generic configuration error. > > > > I tried using the Firefox ProfileManager to create a new profile, but > > that lost me all my bookmarks, as well as not changing a problem getting > > my home page to load at startup, in spite of that being the selection on > > the preferences page, even after creating a new user profile with the > > profile manager. Java won't run, even after reloading from the software > > add/remove manager. > > Creating a new profile in Firefox does exactly that. The old bookmarks > are in your old profile. You can restore them from the old profiles > bookmark directory. From within the bookmark manager, choose to Import > and Backup->Restore->Choose file and then browse to > ~/.mozilla/firefox/<random string>.default/ and then pick the most > recent file. > > When you say Java won't run, do you mean the java plugin won't load in > your browser or that you can't get the command line tools to work? > > If it's the plugin that won't run, you'll need to add a link for the > plugin into either your user plugin directory > (~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins) or a system plugin directory > (/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins). > > e.g. ln -s /usr/java/default/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so > /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins to do it system wide > > > > > > Next I went to the Java website to get the new package, and retrieved > > the jre-6u23-linux-x64-rpm.bin file. when I attempted to source that > > file I get: > > > > $ ./j*bin > > Unpacking... > > Checksumming... > > Extracting... > > UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx). > > replace jre-6u23-linux-amd64.rpm? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: > > y > > inflating: jre-6u23-linux-amd64.rpm > > error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock > > (Permission denied) > > > > but the file appears to uncompress and be present as: > > > > jre-6u23-linux-x64-rpm > > > > but I am unsure of loading it with the prior error in existence. > > By default the script from sun/oracle tries to unpack the rpm and then > install it. You ran this as a non-root user (which is fine), it tried > to install the rpm and failed. You can safely install the rpm. > > Hugh Thanks, Hugh, I had already discovered my error of not using su. DUMB, but I have been hitting every configuration error possible, so I guess it was absolutely required that I did this wrong as well. I did put the link in the wrong place... DUHH!!! I am batting 1000 on this load of Fedora. I have not gotten a single step right. I guess that cold put me farther off my game than I thought. I appreciate the help, patience and aid from all of you. Regards, Les H -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
