Some applications won't launch after update (Fedora 10)

[b0bby]

Hello everyone.
Today (25 of March) Fedora 10 asked to install latest security updates. I allowed it to install them and everything seemed ok. But after the next boot I understood that some applications won't launch. Skype, last.fm player, VirtualBox - all the qt ones. I've reinstalled those apps, and reinstalled qt. They still don't launch.
When I execute one of them from terminal - it just waits and nothing happens.
The process really starts, I can see it from ps -A and gnome's System Monitor.
Here's the /var/log/yum.log for March 25th:

Mar 25 00:20:37 Updated: libX11-1.1.5-1.fc10.i386
Mar 25 00:20:39 Updated: lcms-libs-1.18-1.fc10.i386
Mar 25 00:20:44 Updated: gtk2-2.14.7-7.fc10.i386
Mar 25 00:21:00 Updated: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-11.b14.fc10.i386
Mar 25 00:21:02 Updated: ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.55.20080908.fc10.i386
Mar 25 00:21:03 Updated: lcms-1.18-1.fc10.i386
Mar 25 00:21:04 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.2.0-3.fc10.i386
Mar 25 00:21:31 Updated: selinux-policy-3.5.13-49.fc10.noarch
Mar 25 00:21:34 Updated: libX11-devel-1.1.5-1.fc10.i386
Mar 25 00:22:13 Updated: selinux-policy-targeted-3.5.13-49.fc10.noarch

SELinux at the time of updating was disabled in /etc/selinux/config.

One more thing. Those qt apps won't launch under any other user, even under su. BUT they DO launch under sudo. I just can't figure it out).

Other applications that don't start: xmoto, tuxracer, netbeans 6.5.

Please help.

[dmrees]

Im experiencing the same problems as the OP.

Netbeans, Skype, VirtualBox, and MySQL Server are all not working for me after system update.

[b0bby]

MySQL Server works normally.
Can you see mysqld in "ps -A | grep mysql" ?
If no, you should just launch it /etc/init.d/mysqld start
This works for me.

[zardoz]

I am having the same problem. Opera will no longer work after this update. I am using the latest available Opera RPM, specifically opera-9.64.gcc4-shared-qt3.i386.rpm

Pre-update it was working perfectly on 2 systems with wildly different hardware but still using Fedora10.
Now neither system can run Opera. An existing Opera hangs after opening initial window. A new installation hangs during the Licence agreement page.

Z.

[scucimaro]

i too...skype works when he wonts and also imaging programs as ds9.

[b0bby]

Guys, do those apps run when you launch them from terminal with sudo?

[dmrees]

Guys, do those apps run when you launch them from terminal with sudo?

Yep, Netbeans and Skype run ok from terminal as sudo.

[scucimaro]

no, but if i log out and then log in with the same user it works (something like in win where reboot is the Solution) ...

[dmrees]

MySQL Server works normally.
Can you see mysqld in "ps -A | grep mysql" ?
If no, you should just launch it /etc/init.d/mysqld start
This works for me.

When I try to start mysql server I get the following output

touch: cannot touch `/var/log/mysqld.log': Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of `/var/log/mysqld.log': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/log/mysqld.log': Operation not permitted
No such file or directory
chown: changing ownership of `/var/lib/mysql': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/lib/mysql': Operation not permitted

Mysql server was working fine this morning before I updated.

[b0bby]

Seems like it is the problem with user rights or configuration files. It's so weird because you can't launch an app under su, but you can under sudo.
Don't know what to search and to do. Any suggestions?

[b0bby]

When I try to start mysql server I get the following output

touch: cannot touch `/var/log/mysqld.log': Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of `/var/log/mysqld.log': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/log/mysqld.log': Operation not permitted
No such file or directory
chown: changing ownership of `/var/lib/mysql': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/lib/mysql': Operation not permitted

Mysql server was working fine this morning before I updated.

I get the same when starting under my user.
Did you try "sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start"? It starts normally.

[scucimaro]

i have problems with vmware it wont's install
when i run vmware-config.pl it start to work it seem have no problems with my kernel 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686
but when it start to compile it says

Building the vmmon module.

Building for VMware Server 1.0.0.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.

...
...
Unable to build the vmmon module.
have you ideas? I tryed to reboot but this time doesn't work ;-)

[dmrees]

I get the same when starting under my user.
Did you try "sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start"? It starts normally.

Thanks for trying that. Yes, I tried starting as sudo and I get following output

No such file or directory

I have no idea what file or directory it is referring to

[b0bby]

Guys, I've posted the bug at Redhat's bugzilla, so check it out periodically for additional info about solving the problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492115

[b0bby]

Check if the problem is solved at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492085
It seems to be an error in libX11-1.1.5-1.fc10.
Does anybody know is it possible to downgrade this package to libX11-1.1.4? Hopefully it would solve the problem till next updates.