Firefox dependency broken?

[BlueJayofEvil]

I just did a fresh install of Rawhide (from the 14 alpha KDE version) and noticed Firefox can't install. Here's my output:
# yum install firefox
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package firefox.x86_64 0:3.6.4-2.fc14 set to be installed
--> Processing Dependency: xulrunner >= 1.9.2.4-1 for package: firefox-3.6.4-2.fc14.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: system-bookmarks for package: firefox-3.6.4-2.fc14.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libxul.so()(64bit) for package: firefox-3.6.4-2.fc14.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fedora-bookmarks.noarch 0:13-1 set to be installed
---> Package xulrunner.x86_64 0:1.9.3.0-0.1b4.fc15 set to be installed
--> Processing Conflict: firefox-3.6.4-2.fc14.x86_64 conflicts xulrunner >= 1.9.2.5
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: firefox conflicts with xulrunner
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
I tried the --skip-broken option but to no avail. Is anyone else having this issue?

[smr54]

If I remember correctly, I dealt with this by doing

rpm -e --nodeps xulrunner

then installing firefox.

I don't use Gnome, and I do a lot of work in console, that is, without X running. I don't know what non-mozilla apps require gecko, so not sure what would happen, if anything, if you do that in X while running Gnome. (It's quite possible nothing would happen, but xulrunner is the gecko runtime environment, so always best to do something like that while X isn't running.)

[andrewthomas]

The problem is that xulrunner<1.9.2.8 provides libmozjs.so()(64bit) which is required by gnome-shell and gjs, however xulrunner-1.9.3.0 does not provide libmozjs.so()(64bit). Basically if you upgrade xulrunner in order to update firefox javascript probably won't work.

EDIT: firefox will update if you download xulrunner-1.9.2.7-2 from koji and do a yum update /path/to/xulrunner....rpm --nogpgcheck

[BlueJayofEvil]

The problem is that xulrunner<1.9.2.8 provides libmozjs.so()(64bit) which is required by gnome-shell and gjs, however xulrunner-1.9.3.0 does not provide libmozjs.so()(64bit). Basically if you upgrade xulrunner in order to update firefox javascript probably won't work.

EDIT: firefox will update if you download xulrunner-1.9.2.7-2 from koji and do a yum update /path/to/xulrunner....rpm --nogpgcheck

Thank you. That solved my issue. :)

[R3353]

seems like a lot of work to run firefox in safe-mode....

[BlueJayofEvil]

Just a small update tip for anyone else having this issue:
If you've installed xulrunner-1.9.2.7-2 from koji, yum will try to update it and it will always fail with dependency issues. Until firefox/xulrunner are updated in Rawhide, you will need to type --exclude=xulrunner when using yum.

EDIT: You can also put exclude=*xulrunner* in /etc/yum.conf

[jvillain]

My solution was to remove firefox and xulrunner then pull down a nightly development tar ball from mozilla and run that from the command line. Enjoy the goodness of firefox 4 now. Raw Hide is way to conservative.:D

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

If you want Firefox 4 in a repo, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_4

[jvillain]

Thanks for the link but that really isn't useful for people running rawhide as there is no 15 repository. You can hack the file to point to the repository by doing some thing like this

baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/firefox4/fedora-14/x86_64

or you can just go get the packages directly here

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/firefox4/fedora-14/

But the dependency issues start getting ugly pretty fast. We need to wait for raw hide to catch up to F13.

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Rawhide is NOT Fedora 15. Rawhide is a permanent development branch. Fedora 15 will be a separate branch in the future. You did find it useful and it is in fact useful since I am running Rawhide with that repo. Rawhide is getting Firefox 4 independently anyway. I have no idea what rawhide catching up to Fedora 13 means. Rawhide has much newer packages.

[andrewthomas]

Information for build firefox-4.0-0.2b4.fc15

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=194085

---------- Post added 2010-09-08 at 09:31 AM CDT ---------- Previous post was 2010-09-07 at 10:22 PM CDT ----------

After installing build firefox-4.0-0.2b4.fc15 you may have to do
# setsebool -P allow_execmem 1
to prevent
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597858

[R3353]

I've seen you post this suggestion a few times. However, I have details in my notes where sealert has advised against running the command, both in reference to firefox and other apps. Did you ignore similar warnings? If so, how do you justify this?

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Red Hat developers are working with Firefox upstream to remove the need for the boolean to be set. It is a fairly large change and taking time. Meanwhile this is a temporary workaround to get things running.

[R3353]

Hi,

Red Hat developers are working with Firefox upstream to remove the need for the boolean to be set. It is a fairly large change and taking time. Meanwhile this is a temporary workaround to get things running.

Thanks for keeping us informed, amidst all the other work you guys do. Much appreciated.

[andrewthomas]

I've seen you post this suggestion a few times. However, I have details in my notes where sealert has advised against running the command, both in reference to firefox and other apps. Did you ignore similar warnings? If so, how do you justify this?
Do you read the changelogs?
* Tue Aug 03 2010 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> 3.8.8-9
- Apply Miroslav munin patch
- Turn back on allow_execmem and allow_execmod booleans

Daniel Walsh 2010-08-10 08:00:49 EDT Comment 46
This will not fix the problem on an update, only on a fresh install.

You can fix it on an existing machine by executing

# setsebool -P allow_execmem 1


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597858#c46

[jvillain]

Hi,

Rawhide is NOT Fedora 15. Rawhide is a permanent development branch. Fedora 15 will be a separate branch in the future. You did find it useful and it is in fact useful since I am running Rawhide with that repo. Rawhide is getting Firefox 4 independently anyway. I have no idea what rawhide catching up to Fedora 13 means. Rawhide has much newer packages.

$ rpm -qa |grep rawhide
fedora-release-rawhide-15-0.2.noarch

$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 15 (Finian)

As for having newer packages YMMV depending on what packages you are looking at.



It seems that Firefox 4 is now directly available via yum. Thanks for the updates. If any one is new to it and wants to take WebM for a spin you need to tell youtube that you want to use HTML5 and WebM over here.

http://www.webmproject.org/users/

[scott32746]

Hello,

This should help
# yum --enablerepo updates-testing update xulrunner
then
# yum update