Re: Failure of rpmdrake/urpmi and other applications

On 09/27/2010 07:29 AM, Len Lawrence wrote:
> On 27/09/10 00:53, Len Lawrence wrote:

> Replying to my own post...
>
> Reinstallation this morning, on the Dell XPS M1730. All went well, as
> before.
> Used Firefox and added repositories via Easyurpmi (Mandriva and PLF).
> Brought ruby and tk up to scratch then tried installing Thunderbird and
> that was the problem. The following is a rough summary:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> urpmi mozilla-thunderbird
>
> Accessing Main updates
>
> lib64nss3 3.12.7 0.1mdv2010.1 x86_64
> mozilla-thunderbird 3.0.8 0.1mdv2010.1 x86_64
>
> Installing the library caused a scriptlet failed message, exit status 127.
>
> The tbird installation issued several errors and warnings on files in
> the /usr/share/applications tree concerning unregistered media type, old
> media type and invalid MIME type.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thereafter urpmi would not work, nor firefox, and of course not
> thunderbird.
> All return the libnssutil3 error reported before.
>
> So, does it look as if thunderbird is overwriting the correct version of
> lib64nss3? If so, is there a way to fool thunderbird into thinking that
> the version it wants is already installed? I suspect that renaming will
> not work. From experiments in the past it would appear that libraries
> store their own names somewhere internally. Unfortunately I did not
> think to check which version was on disk before trying to install
> thunderbird. This problem must have affected other thunderbird users,
> even back in 2010.0, yet there is very little discussion about it on the
> net and nothing in the errata.
>
> Meanwhile I shall reinstall (#3) and ignore thunderbird for the time
> being. If the problem cannot be fixed I shall have to bin 2010.1 and
> that would be a pity because apart from this fault it is the best
> distribution ever.

I am not an expert, However  I believe you can install the 32 bit? 
version 3.1.2 of TB and it will still work. I have libnss3 3.12.7 installed.

Gary