various errors related to configuration
les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Tue Dec 14 20:07:37 UTC 2010
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 09:39 -0800, les wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 10:17 -0600, Hugh Brown wrote:
> > Les wrote:
> > > I started with an evolution configuration error, and now a
> > > Firefox/Mozilla configuration error, so it appears to me that this might
> > > be a system level error. Maybe some file or directory permissions
> > > issue, or perhaps a generic configuration error.
> > >
> > > I tried using the Firefox ProfileManager to create a new profile, but
> > > that lost me all my bookmarks, as well as not changing a problem getting
> > > my home page to load at startup, in spite of that being the selection on
> > > the preferences page, even after creating a new user profile with the
> > > profile manager. Java won't run, even after reloading from the software
> > > add/remove manager.
> >
> > Creating a new profile in Firefox does exactly that. The old bookmarks
> > are in your old profile. You can restore them from the old profiles
> > bookmark directory. From within the bookmark manager, choose to Import
> > and Backup->Restore->Choose file and then browse to
> > ~/.mozilla/firefox/<random string>.default/ and then pick the most
> > recent file.
> >
> > When you say Java won't run, do you mean the java plugin won't load in
> > your browser or that you can't get the command line tools to work?
> >
> > If it's the plugin that won't run, you'll need to add a link for the
> > plugin into either your user plugin directory
> > (~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins) or a system plugin directory
> > (/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins).
> >
> > e.g. ln -s /usr/java/default/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
> > /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins to do it system wide
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Next I went to the Java website to get the new package, and retrieved
> > > the jre-6u23-linux-x64-rpm.bin file. when I attempted to source that
> > > file I get:
> > >
> > > $ ./j*bin
> > > Unpacking...
> > > Checksumming...
> > > Extracting...
> > > UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs at lists.wku.edu).
> > > replace jre-6u23-linux-amd64.rpm? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename:
> > > y
> > > inflating: jre-6u23-linux-amd64.rpm
> > > error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock
> > > (Permission denied)
> > >
> > > but the file appears to uncompress and be present as:
> > >
> > > jre-6u23-linux-x64-rpm
> > >
> > > but I am unsure of loading it with the prior error in existence.
> >
> > By default the script from sun/oracle tries to unpack the rpm and then
> > install it. You ran this as a non-root user (which is fine), it tried
> > to install the rpm and failed. You can safely install the rpm.
> >
> > Hugh
> Thanks, Hugh, I had already discovered my error of not using su. DUMB,
> but I have been hitting every configuration error possible, so I guess
> it was absolutely required that I did this wrong as well.
>
> I did put the link in the wrong place... DUHH!!! I am batting 1000 on
> this load of Fedora. I have not gotten a single step right. I guess
> that cold put me farther off my game than I thought.
>
> I appreciate the help, patience and aid from all of you.
>
> Regards,
> Les H
>
Sorry about this folks, but I am still having issues with this and other
configuration stuff.
I am beginning to feel really frustrated. Simple things are not
working, things I know how to do I am not doing correctly, and even when
I fix that I don't seem to get any response, up until now.
I have put a pointer to the file in the correct location now, but it
still doesn't load. Someone on another thread suggested the followign
to enable flash:
# mozilla-plugin-config -i
But when I ran it I received:
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so:
undefined symbol: __gxx_personality_v0
Googling: mozilla __gxx_personality_v0
No help that I could see. Most references were to compiling with gcc vs
gpp or g++. One was addressing an issue with pulse from 2005. Nothing
current except one ubuntu entry which had insufficient debugging
information.
However the links to gcc and gpp and g++ issues leads me to believe this
is due to lacking a library of some kind. Reading the entries the
assistance provided was to null define __gxx_personality_v0, which
doesn't seem like a good solution, and wouldn't apply in my case anyway
as I am not compiling the code.
I did not find any library defining gxx_personality_v0 in links. Any
help anyone?
Regards,
Les H
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