[ale] keeping an antique running for another 3 months

[Sean Kilpatrick]

This is W-A-Y too old for that.  I intend to KISS:  back up the home dir, 
make a list of repos and installed <stuff>, then hose all and install new 
from scratch, replacing 5-year-old HDs -- in RAID-1 (software) -- in the 
process:  where "install new" = FC current-1.  I'm not opposed to bleeding 
edge as a rule, but I've learned that mopping up the blood can get messy.
:)

Sean



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On Friday, May 16, 2014 01:29:39 pm Jim Kinney wrote:
> fedup is your friend. update that ancient beast!
> 
> sounds like those files are links to each other. Thus no actual file.
> run locate xpcon
> 
> run fedup too. ancient fedora is a security deathtrap.
> 
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >  Running an out-of-date Fedora.
> > 
> > Trying to update Firefox as more and more web sites are whining about
> > it.
> > 
> > Down loaded current firefox and unpacked it into /home.
> > 
> > When I try to run the executable, I get this error:
> > 
> > XPCOMGlueLoad error for file
> > /home/kilpatms/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so:
> > 
> > libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > directory
> > 
> > Couldn't load XPCOM.
> > 
> > So, not having any idea what a GlueLoad error might be, I made a link
> > to /usr/bin/libdbus-glib-1.so.2, which itself is a link to
> > libddbus-glib-.so.2.1.0, which is an older and smaller file.
> > 
> > I have no idea what XPCOM might be; it resides in
> > /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules but an <ls> also shows this:
> > 
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 16 12:47 XPCOM -> XPCOM
> > 
> > where the two XPCOM are oddly marked: the first is red letters on
> > black background and the second is blinking white on a red
> > background. I have no idea what that is trying to tell me.
> > 
> > In the same directory is the file XPCOMUtils.jsm. So I tried to make
> > a link to that file but that didn't work:
> > 
> > [root at Sarge firefox]# ln -s XPCOMUtils.jsm
> > usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm
> > 
> > ln: creating symbolic link
> > `usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm': No such file or
> > directory
> > 
> > I am somewhat confused. That file has been sitting in that directory
> > since the system was first booted. All 12k of it.
> > 
> > I'd stop now and have a beer, but it is too early in the afternoon.
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
> > 
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