Firefox and xulrunner updates fail on Fedora-17

[Digimer]

On 02/14/2013 01:22 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> System is Fedora-17 with all updates (except these) running on x86_64 cpu.
> Here's the yumex log of an attempt to update:
>
> 10:14:45 : network interface p6p1 (r8169) is connected
> 10:14:46 : Connected to an network
> 10:14:46 : network interface p6p1 (r8169) is connected
> 10:14:46 : Starting yum child process
> 10:14:50 : YUM: Yum Version : 3.4.3
> 10:14:50 : YUM: Loaded plugins: presto
> 10:14:50 : Getting available updates
> 10:14:52 : 2 packages returned
> 10:14:52 : Getting available obsoletes
> 10:14:52 : 0 packages returned
> 10:14:52 : Adding Packages to view
> 10:14:52 : Added 2 Packages to view
> 10:15:02 : YUM: --> Running transaction check
> 10:15:02 : YUM: ---> Package firefox.x86_64 0:18.0-1.fc17 will be updated
> 10:15:02 : YUM: ---> Package firefox.x86_64 0:18.0.2-1.fc17 will be an update
> 10:15:02 : YUM: ---> Package xulrunner.x86_64 0:18.0-6.fc17 will be updated
> 10:15:02 : YUM: ---> Package xulrunner.x86_64 0:18.0.2-1.fc17 will be an update
> 10:15:02 : YUM: --> Processing Dependency: nss >= 3.14.2 for package: xulrunner-18.0.2-1.fc17.x86_64
> 10:15:02 : YUM: --> Processing Dependency: nspr >= 4.9.5 for package: xulrunner-18.0.2-1.fc17.x86_64
> 10:15:02 : YUM: --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 10:15:06 : ERROR: Dependency resolving completed with errors
> 10:15:06 : ERROR:   Package: xulrunner-18.0.2-1.fc17.x86_64 (updates)
>      Requires: nss >= 3.14.2
>      Installed: nss-3.14.1-3.fc17.i686 (@updates)
>          nss = 3.14.1-3.fc17
>      Available: nss-3.13.4-3.fc17.i686 (fedora)
>          nss = 3.13.4-3.fc17
> 10:15:06 : ERROR:   Package: xulrunner-18.0.2-1.fc17.x86_64 (updates)
>      Requires: nspr >= 4.9.5
>      Installed: nspr-4.9.4-1.fc17.i686 (@updates)
>          nspr = 4.9.4-1.fc17
>      Available: nspr-4.9-2.fc17.i686 (fedora)
>          nspr = 4.9-2.fc17

I *just* ran into this with a co-worker's machine. I fixed it by 
downloading the conflicting packages from the fedora testing repo:

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/17/x86_64/

I download nss-3.14.2-2.fc17.x86_64.rpm, tried to install it, got a list 
of dependencies (nspr, nss-softokn and nss-softokn-freebl I believe), 
downloaded the RPMs for them as well and then was able to update to 
3.14.2 to resolve the conflicts.

I suspect that a testing package got into updates before the rest of the 
dependencies did. My solution is certainly not ideal, but it got it working.

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