Firefox work fine yet thunderbird and pidgin cannot connect in F11 [SOLVED]

[Min]

Like the title said, now i can surf the web using Mozilla firefox (and chromium) without problem, but my thunderbird and pidgin cannot connect. I just updated today using

yum update

4 hours ago both were working fine. I just restarted my system after the upgrade.

ps: I meddled with the network but seeing firefox still work i don't think its because of that
Firefox 3.5
Thunderbird 3.02b
Pidgin 2.5.8-1.fc11

[scottro]

Heh. You (probably) left out the most important part. You're using 64 bit, aren't you?

You can't use yum either, right?

Yes, you're the first poster on the forums to be bitten by <insert music here> the i586 nss thingie. (Hrrm, it needs a more ominous title)

Anyway, assuming it is a 64 bit system, the fix is simple. Open the file /etc/nsswitch.conf and look for the line referring to mdns. Put a # in front of the line, which comments it, making it so it won't be read.

Now, use yum to install nss-mdns

yum install nss-mdns


This will pull in the 64 bit version of the rpm.

Now, you can go back to nsswitch.conf, uncomment the line and everything will work. Thanks to Will Woods, who first discovered this, but several people got bitten.

What's happened is that installing chrome pulled in the i586 version of nss-mdns, which affects /etc/nsswitch.conf. However, since chrome is i586, it messes up 64 bit systems. Installing the x86_64 bit version of nss-mdns fixes the issue.

(So does commenting out the line in nsswitch.conf, but it's better to have the 64 bit version installed in case something else later makes a change in the file.)

All of the above is written assuming you have a 64 bit system. People using recent versions of wine, which has begun pulling in that 586 nss-mdns rpm, are also affected.

[Min]

You guess it right. I forgot to mention 64bit.

the only "nss" word in my /etc/nsswitch.conf was

# /etc/nsswitch.conf

which give info what file is it. i can post the whole line if you want

yum give this message

[root@Himitsu Min]# yum install nss-mdns
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromiu...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: chromium. Please verify its path and try again
[root@Himitsu Min]#

The chromium one is the one mentioned in other thread in this forums about using chromium in fedora 11

Edit: i misread the mdns for nss. I commented that line and moving the chromium .repo to my home folder so it won't cancel yum. I'll update again later

EDIT2: Haven't checked thunder bird, but pidgin DOES work again thanks a lot. How can one change the title of the thread to add [SOLVED]? it might be a good idea to add about 64bit and mdns in the title too

[scottro]

Once you comment that line, everything should work. It's the line that has [NORETURN] or something similar in it.

Also, if you're getting that chromimum error at any point, you can temporarily rename the repo to chromium.repo.bak or something similar. Or, you can disable it by changing the the enabled=1 to enabled=0.

There's also yum --disablerepo=chromium install whatever.

However, I think the problem you were experiencing is the same as you had in Thunderbird and so on. The only time I've run into that problem is when I installed chrome on Rawhide, as there is no release version for Rawhide in that repo.

[Min]

Thanks for the help. Both the pidgin and thunderbird works fine now. how can i mark this as solved?

[scottro]

I'll take care of it. Glad it worked.

I think a lot of pwe split up on the docks one night, agreeing it would be besteople are going to have the problem in the next few days, but it's known and should be fixed soon.