Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 11:29, James Pearson wrote: > Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > > Amazingly it appears that Red Hat has released another Firefox: > > Red Hat just follow the Mozilla ESR stream release cycle, which is > currently ESR 78 with point releases come out every 4 weeks or so > >

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-26 Thread James Pearson
Jonathan Billings wrote: > > Amazingly it appears that Red Hat has released another Firefox: Red Hat just follow the Mozilla ESR stream release cycle, which is currently ESR 78 with point releases come out every 4 weeks or so Each ESR stream is supported by Mozilla for about a year, with each

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-26 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 01:21:10PM +0100, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > Am 26.10.20 um 12:45 schrieb Jonathan Billings: > > On Oct 23, 2020, at 14:45, Leon Fauster via CentOS > > wrote: > > > Mozilla released version 68.12.0, on August 25, 2020 -> > > >

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-26 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 26.10.20 um 12:45 schrieb Jonathan Billings: On Oct 23, 2020, at 14:45, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Mozilla released version 68.12.0, on August 25, 2020 -> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.12.0/releasenotes/ RH has an ELS phase - if it gets fixed then only for paying customers.

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-26 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Oct 23, 2020, at 14:45, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Mozilla released version 68.12.0, on August 25, 2020 -> > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.12.0/releasenotes/ > > RH has an ELS phase - if it gets fixed then only for paying customers. Amazingly it appears that Red Hat has

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-23 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 23.10.20 um 11:18 schrieb James Pearson: Peter wrote: What confuses me here is why would Red Hat rebase a package so close to EOL. Now that they have they're stuck with either leaving a severly broken firefox or providing a fix less than 6 weeks before EOL. I honestly don't know which way

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 05:19, James Pearson wrote: > Peter wrote: > > > > What confuses me here is why would Red Hat rebase a package so close to > > EOL. Now that they have they're stuck with either leaving a severly > > broken firefox or providing a fix less than 6 weeks before EOL. I > >

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-23 Thread James Pearson
Peter wrote: > > What confuses me here is why would Red Hat rebase a package so close to > EOL. Now that they have they're stuck with either leaving a severly > broken firefox or providing a fix less than 6 weeks before EOL. I > honestly don't know which way they'll go here but it just seems to

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-22 Thread Peter
On 22/10/20 10:25 am, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Basically that says that upstream no longer thinks that Firefox is runnable on RHEL-6/CentOS-6 anymore. I think there was a similar problem at the end of EL-5 when a 'YOU HAVE TO UPGRADE' fix from Mozilla was released and while a lot of work was

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-21 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Wednesday 21 October 2020, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > [yves@home firefox]$ ./firefox > > ./firefox: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found > > (required by ./firefox) > > ./firefox: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found > > (required by ./firefox) > > > > CentOS 6

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-21 Thread Styma, Robert (Nokia - US/Phoenix)
> > Basically that says that upstream no longer thinks that Firefox is runnable > on RHEL-6/CentOS-6 anymore. I think there was a similar problem at the end > of EL-5 when a 'YOU HAVE TO UPGRADE' fix from Mozilla was released and > while a lot of work was done by Red Hat to get it to work on

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 14:03, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > > ... or a general problem. Does some one tried the version from > > mozilla? > > > > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-esr > > > > Can't test it - I don't run EL6

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-21 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > ... or a general problem. Does some one tried the version from > mozilla? > > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-esr > > Can't test it - I don't run EL6 workstations anymore ... [yves@home firefox]$ ./firefox ./firefox:

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/20/20 3:32 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 10/20/20 2:45 PM, Robert Heller wrote: >> At Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:35:59 -0400 CentOS mailing list >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Jonathan Billings wrote: >>>   I'm less concerned with firefox being broken on 32-bit CentOS 6   systems when the

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-21 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 21.10.20 um 01:00 schrieb Robert Heller: At Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:07:27 -0600 CentOS mailing list wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Robert Heller wrote: Does FF 78 sound work properly in CentOS 7 and 8? firefox-78.2.0-2.el8_2.x86_64 Working fine for me here on several

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
Robert Heller wrote: > OK, so it is a FF78 / RHel 6 (implies CentOS 6) specific problem. I've reported it to Red Hat as bug 1889920: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889920 -- Yves Bellefeuille ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:07:27 -0600 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:45:54 -0400 (EDT) > Robert Heller wrote: > > > Does FF 78 sound work properly in CentOS 7 and 8? > > firefox-78.2.0-2.el8_2.x86_64 > > Working fine for me here on several computers. OK, so it is a

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/20/20 2:45 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:35:59 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: Jonathan Billings wrote: I'm less concerned with firefox being broken on 32-bit CentOS 6 systems when the platform is only going to live for another month. Frankly, I'm glad to

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Robert Heller wrote: > Does FF 78 sound work properly in CentOS 7 and 8? firefox-78.2.0-2.el8_2.x86_64 Working fine for me here on several computers. -- Can we uninstall 2020 and install it again? This one has a virus. MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/20/20 2:04 PM, R C wrote: > RHEL 6 has the same problem, also firefox 78 on a 64 bit machine. And if this is the case, it should also be broken in CentOS until it is fixed in RHEL source code. > > > On 10/20/20 11:35 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >> Jonathan Billings wrote: >> >>>   I'm

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:35:59 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > I'm less concerned with firefox being broken on 32-bit CentOS 6 > > systems when the platform is only going to live for another month. > > Frankly, I'm glad to see flash die just a little

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:35:59 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > I'm less concerned with firefox being broken on 32-bit CentOS 6 > > systems when the platform is only going to live for another month. > > Frankly, I'm glad to see flash die just a little

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread R C
RHEL 6 has the same problem, also firefox 78 on a 64 bit machine. On 10/20/20 11:35 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Jonathan Billings wrote: I'm less concerned with firefox being broken on 32-bit CentOS 6 systems when the platform is only going to live for another month. Frankly, I'm

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
Jonathan Billings wrote: > I'm less concerned with firefox being broken on 32-bit CentOS 6 > systems when the platform is only going to live for another month. > Frankly, I'm glad to see flash die just a little earlier. It isn't just 32-bit, but also 64-bit, and it isn't just Flash, but also

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:56:38 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > This issue? > > > > https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17767 > > This is a huge bug! Using Firefox to watch videos is a basic activity. Even worse is that it is a failure for Google Voice and

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:56:38PM -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > This issue? > > > > https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17767 > > This is a huge bug! Using Firefox to watch videos is a basic activity. > > The bug with grub2 a few months ago was even more serious:

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
Akemi Yagi wrote: > This issue? > > https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17767 This is a huge bug! Using Firefox to watch videos is a basic activity. The bug with grub2 a few months ago was even more serious: it made systems unbootable. It's discomfiting to see two major bugs so close to each

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-19 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 10:26:50PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 10/17/20 3:38 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, and > > FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers. Is there some magic I need to do? > > As > > a short term (?)

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-17 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/17/20 3:38 PM, Robert Heller wrote: I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, and FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers. Is there some magic I need to do? As a short term (?) fix, I downgraded back to Firefox 68. My system is otherwise up-to-date. I'm

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-17 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 17 Oct 2020 19:08:49 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 3:38 PM Robert Heller wrote: > > > I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, > > and > > FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers. Is there some magic I need to do? > > As >

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-17 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 17 Oct 2020 17:34:11 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 1:38 PM Robert Heller wrote: > > > I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, > > and > > FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers. Is there some magic I need to do? > > As >

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-17 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 1:38 PM Robert Heller wrote: > I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, > and > FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers. Is there some magic I need to do? > As > a short term (?) fix, I downgraded back to Firefox 68. My system is > otherwise

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-17 Thread Jon Pruente
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 3:38 PM Robert Heller wrote: > I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, > and > FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers. Is there some magic I need to do? > As > a short term (?) fix, I downgraded back to Firefox 68. My system is > otherwise

[CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-17 Thread Robert Heller
I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, and FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers. Is there some magic I need to do? As a short term (?) fix, I downgraded back to Firefox 68. My system is otherwise up-to-date. -- Robert Heller -- Cell: