On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 09:39 -0800, les wrote: > 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 > Sorry about this folks, but I am still having issues with this and other configuration stuff. I am beginning to feel really frustrated. Simple things are not working, things I know how to do I am not doing correctly, and even when I fix that I don't seem to get any response, up until now. I have put a pointer to the file in the correct location now, but it still doesn't load. Someone on another thread suggested the followign to enable flash: # mozilla-plugin-config -i But when I ran it I received: *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so: undefined symbol: __gxx_personality_v0 Googling: mozilla __gxx_personality_v0 No help that I could see. Most references were to compiling with gcc vs gpp or g++. One was addressing an issue with pulse from 2005. Nothing current except one ubuntu entry which had insufficient debugging information. However the links to gcc and gpp and g++ issues leads me to believe this is due to lacking a library of some kind. Reading the entries the assistance provided was to null define __gxx_personality_v0, which doesn't seem like a good solution, and wouldn't apply in my case anyway as I am not compiling the code. I did not find any library defining gxx_personality_v0 in links. Any help anyone? 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
