On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:03:05 -0500 Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com> 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: My guess is nspr and nss. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
