Linux

Hi all,

I installed RHEL on my machine and realized that firefox browser was not
included at installation. I went back and added it using the Add or Remove
Packages by inserting the dvd I used during installation. The icon is there
but for some reason I cannot lauch. Nothing returns when I click.

Can someone tell me what I am missing, or what could be wrong.
What log can I tail to see what the problem is ?
Am I better off reinstalling Linux ?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

type in firefox &
and see what happens

This is what i get:

[root@jhlinux ~]# /usr/bin/firefox &
[1] 15059
[root@jhlinux ~]#
(Gecko:15082): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically
loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly.
This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
'/usr/evolution28/etc/pango/pango.modules'
You should create this file by running pango-querymodules.

(Gecko:15082): Pango-WARNING **: pango_shape called with bad font, expect ugly output

(Gecko:15082): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called with bad font, expect ugly output

(Gecko:15082): Pango-WARNING **: pango_shape called with bad shape_engine, expect ugly output

(Gecko:15082): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(Gecko:15082): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_describe: assertion `font != NULL' failed
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 15082 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

hi
There is wrong version of libraries somewhere. Try an older version of firefox.
or a newer os ver.
here: this one will work
Mozilla Firefox 2

Do you suggest that I uninstall what I have on there allready ?
If so, how do I go about that (never done it on linux)? I imagine there has to be some cleanup.

Please advise, and thanks.

have you updated your system online? i don't know wich tool rhel uses but it should be something like "yum"...

I did a search on my machine for yum* and I found this

/etc/log.d/scripts/services/yum

However, this is not included in my executable path.