Latest Seamonkey update
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Mon Aug 14 11:07:08 UTC 2006
NORM wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 20:14 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Norm wrote:
>>> Is it just me or are others having problems with Seamonky after the
>>> update yesterday?
>>> I had Seamonkey working well in my core 5 installation, since then there
>>> seems to be no wy to start and run Seamonkey now. Assuming it was some
>>> problem I created I reinstalled core 5 and tried it again the problem
>>> still exists.
>>>
>> I have the problem also. The only remedy that I found was to put SELinux
>> into permissive mode before launching seamonkey.
>>
>> There probably is some SELinux incantation which can be applied to
>> seamonkey either at the packaging level or at the passing on of the
>> chcon <SELinux incantation>
>>
>> I had to relabel my system because of some gnome problem where none of
>> the icons launchers or applets were displayed when gnome launched with
>> early-login as a boot parameter. Seamonkey quit launching without
>> putting SELinux into permissive mode before launching the program.
>>
>> If setting SELinux to permissive mode with setenforce 0 in a root
>> terminal performed before launching seamonkey allows seamonkey to
>> launch, I'll file a bug report or you can file a report and I'll add my
>> "me too" comment to it. Pass on the bug ticket number if you file the
>> report.
>>
>> Jim
> Thanks for the suggestion Jim, I dropped my SELinux back to permissive
> and did a reboot and Seamonkey works again. Thinking back I recently
> attempted to bring SELinux back from disabled to enabled and the
> computer would not reboot but hung some where telling me there was a
> file error and the only solution I could find was a reinstall,
> It looks like you have followed the bug through a little further and can
> probably explain the bug better - I'll leave it up to you to file the
> report.
>
There is a bug report opened for the problem already.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201648
I added myself to the CC: list for the bug report.
Jim
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