Thanks! I had only checked the GUI since lately I've been running in GUI mode primarily on my workstation. <palm-to-forehead> It didn't occur to me that there's a silently lurking couple of processes, simply because this hadn't happened all the other times FF was upgraded.
0 S 8539 8047 0 81 0 - 15957 wait Apr28 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.9/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.9/firefox 0 S 8556 8539 1 75 0 - 197387 423619 Apr28 ? 00:17:27 /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.9/firefox Dan W. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:46:54AM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: > Hi Dan, > Your symptoms sound like you haven't restarted firefox. > Try completely restarting firefox. You might have some process lurking > in the background if you've already tried restarting firefox. Do a > ps ax | grep firefox > and kill all it's processes > > Troy > > Daniel Widyono wrote: > >Troy, > > > >I don't know if anybody else has experienced this. Upon the upgrade to > >these > >packages, my firefox install no longer opens windows. I can't open the > >preferences window either for instance. A small minimally-sized window > >appears but its contents are blank. I tried moving aside my personal > >profile > >to no avail. > > > >What's the easiest method of downgrading packages together from the SL > >repo? > > > >Dan W. > > > > > >On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: > >>Synopsis: Critical: firefox security update > >>Issue date: 2009-04-27 > >>CVE Names: CVE-2009-1313 > >> > >>A flaw was found in the processing of malformed web content. A web > >>page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, > >>potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. > >>(CVE-2009-1313) > >> > >>After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the change to > >>take effect. > >> > >>SL 4.x > >> > >> SRPMS: > >>firefox-3.0.10-1.el4.src.rpm > >> i386: > >>firefox-3.0.10-1.el4.i386.rpm > >> x86_64: > >>firefox-3.0.10-1.el4.i386.rpm > >>firefox-3.0.10-1.el4.x86_64.rpm > >> > >>SL 5.x > >> > >> SRPMS: > >>firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.src.rpm > >>xulrunner-1.9.0.10-1.el5.src.rpm > >> i386: > >>firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm > >>xulrunner-1.9.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm > >>xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm > >>xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm > >> x86_64: > >>firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm > >>firefox-3.0.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm > >>xulrunner-1.9.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm > >>xulrunner-1.9.0.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm > >>xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.10-1.el5.i386.rpm > >>xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm > >>xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm > >> > >>-Connie Sieh > >>-Troy Dawson > >> > > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Troy Dawson [email protected] (630)840-6468 > Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI LMSS Group > __________________________________________________ >
