Bill, This might be a trivial check, but did you look at the permission to the directory where the shared library is? It maybe that the directory permissions are set to 700. I ran into a similar problem with my locked down box and forgot to open up the umask. So when I installed the updates, Firefox would not launch. A simple chmod fixed my problem. Paul W WINS On 9/18/08 6:55 AM, "Tangren, Bill" <bill.tangren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I recently upgraded all my RHEL ES 4 servers to the latest minor > version (don't remember what the number is right now, but think it is > 6), firefox stopped working for users, but would still work for root. I > saw the thread about how it could be an NFS lock problem, but I don't > use NFS. This is the error I get when I try to start firefox from the > command line: > > /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox-bin: error while loading shared > libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > > But I have pango installed. > > This error is all over the internet for various OS's like Cent OS and > Debian, but I can't find a solution. See this link: > > http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=fr&forumId= > 1&comments_parentId=73375 > > as an example. The comments in the NFS thread indicated that it might be > a permissions problem on the ~/.firefox directory, but the permissions > are 775 in the example I give. Does anyone know what might be the > problem? > > --- > Bill Tangren > U.S. Naval Observatory > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list