[ale] keeping an antique running for another 3 months

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

fedup is your friend. update that ancient beast!

sounds like those files are links to each other. Thus no actual file. run
locate xpcon

run fedup too. ancient fedora is a security deathtrap.


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Running an out-of-date Fedora.
>
> Trying to update Firefox as more and more web sites are whining about it.
>
> Down loaded current firefox and unpacked it into /home.
>
> When I try to run the executable, I get this error:
>
> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/kilpatms/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so:
>
> libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
>
> Couldn't load XPCOM.
>
> So, not having any idea what a GlueLoad error might be, I made a link to
> /usr/bin/libdbus-glib-1.so.2, which itself is a link to
> libddbus-glib-.so.2.1.0, which is an older and smaller file.
>
> I have no idea what XPCOM might be; it resides in
> /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules but an <ls> also shows this:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 16 12:47 XPCOM -> XPCOM
>
> where the two XPCOM are oddly marked: the first is red letters on black
> background and the second is blinking white on a red background. I have no
> idea what that is trying to tell me.
>
> In the same directory is the file XPCOMUtils.jsm. So I tried to make a
> link to that file but that didn't work:
>
> [root at Sarge firefox]# ln -s XPCOMUtils.jsm
> usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm
>
> ln: creating symbolic link
> `usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm': No such file or
> directory
>
> I am somewhat confused. That file has been sitting in that directory since
> the system was first booted. All 12k of it.
>
> I'd stop now and have a beer, but it is too early in the afternoon.
>
> Sean
>
>
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