On 12/1/20 13:18, stan via users wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:03:05 -0500
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I held all Fedora updates for the last couple of weeks, and only
updated firefox in order to pick up the critical vulnerability fix. I
was planning to update fully again next week, but decided to just
grab the firefox update now. The firefox 72 rpm installed without
conflicts, but firefox just kept flipping me the finger, shaped like
a blank page. It was not crashing, and there were no error messages
if I ran it from a terminal. Just a big F. U. white screen.
On a few occasions, Firefox started to load my home page, but reached
the conclusion that https://mail.google.com/u/0 – my home page – was
corrupted.
I determined that this ust be a hidden ABI breakage with one of the
dependent packages. Firefox 72 started working again after I
installed all available updates.
I reproduced this on three different machines, this sequence of
events: firefix update is broke by itself, but starts working once
all available Fedora updates are installed. Or if I downgrade to
71.0.15. But I ran out of available machines to experiment with.
They're all now fully updated.
But I grabbed the complete list of packages that was updated on one
of the boxes, if anyone wishes to find the ABI breakage violator.
One of the following packages must have an ABI break in it, that the
current firefox build has a dependency on:
Just for info, I installed F29 in a vm from scratch, and then upgraded
to F31 from F29. The upgrade installed Firefox V72 and for me it worked
fine (except under Wayland along with other packages). I don't normally
use this version of Firefox, I use the nightly version of Firefox which
is V74.0a1, and other than the Wayland issues it seems to work fine).
regards,
Steve
My guess is nspr and nss.
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