Firefox 3 on Fedora 7

Firefox 3 was released some days ago…

The installers available in many languages [for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux operating systems] can be downloaded here. See the system requirements first if you’re not sure which one should be downloaded.

I have installed and used it in my Windows Vista without any problem. [unlike Firefox 2 which somehow can't connect to the internet after installation in that Vista, even though my laptop is connected to the Internet.]

I have also installed and used it in my Fedora 7. Well, I don’t know if it can be called installation anyway haha…

Here are the steps I did.

1. Download the tar.bz file from the link I have mentioned above
2. Extract the archive [I used right click and extract here choice]
   You’ll have a folder named firefox
3. Copy the firefox folder to /opt using terminal window [if you're not using the root user]
   I used su and then mc [midnight commander] to copy the folder

Anyway, the point is that you have to make the firefox folder to be owned by the root.

Actually it’s not so-called installed, because I still have firefox 2 in my Fedora 7. I don’t want to uninstall it until I can download firefox 3 from yum

To uninstall firefox 3, I can just delete the firefox folder in my /opt folder.

To run the firefox 3, just type

$ /opt/firefox/./firefox

in a terminal window as any user.

I made a menu and desktop icon so that I don’t have to retype that thing in terminal.

Intel ICH8 Soundcard

# yum install alsa

Hang Saat Synchronizing Hardisk Sebelum System Halt

Setelah fresh install F7 dan system update, F7 saya mengalami hang pada saat synchronizing hardisk sebelum shut down.

Setelah ditelusuri, ternyata setiap login ke sebuah user di F7, selalu ada SELinux alert seperti ini:

Summary
SELinux is preventing access to files with the default label, default_t.

Detailed Description
SELinux permission checks on files labeled default_t are being denied.
These files/directories have the default label on them. This can indicate a
labeling problem, especially if the files being referred to are not top
level directories. Any files/directories under standard system directories,
/usr, /var. /dev, /tmp, ..., should not be labeled with the default label.
The default label is for files/directories which do not have a label on a
parent directory. So if you create a new directory in / you might
legitimately get this label.

Allowing Access
If you want a confined domain to use these files you will probably need to
relabel the file/directory with chcon. In some cases it is just easier to
relabel the system, to relabel execute: "touch /.autorelabel; reboot"

Additional Information

Source Context system_u:system_r:procmail_t
Target Context system_u:object_r:default_t
Target Objects root [ dir ]
Affected RPM Packages procmail-3.22-19.fc7
[application]filesystem-2.4.6-1.fc7 [target]
Policy RPM selinux-policy-2.6.4-8.fc7
Selinux Enabled True
Policy Type targeted
MLS Enabled True
Enforcing Mode Enforcing
Plugin Name plugins.default
Host Name localhost.localdomain
Platform Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1
SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007 i686 i686
Alert Count 10
First Seen Fri 05 Oct 2007 06:29:03 PM SGT
Last Seen Sat 10 Nov 2007 04:10:29 AM SGT
Local ID c6a2c282-222d-4427-b15d-b18080fb07df
Line Numbers

Raw Audit Messages

avc: denied { search } for comm="procmail" dev=sda3 egid=0 euid=0
exe="/usr/bin/procmail" exit=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 name="root"
pid=21116 scontext=system_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0 sgid=0
subj=system_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=dir
tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=0

Solusinya, ketik

# touch /.autorelabel; reboot

sebagai root di terminal window. Setelah itu, komputer akan shut down dengan lancar… Untuk shut down berikutnya, tidak perlu ketik seperti di atas lagi.

Sumber: Fedora Forum