How to get something useful out of a DRAC 5?

[Matthias Saou]

Matthias Saou wrote :

> Matthias Saou wrote :
> 
> > As my normal user, the extension install fails because it tries to
> > install to the system-wide plugins directory. So I hack the permissions
> > to allow that, then get a supposedly completed install, logout and
> > restart firefox... but then firefox still says it's missing a plugin for
> > "application/x-smdvv". I thought it might be java since I didn't have
> > it installed, but installing it didn't change anything. A google search
> > for "x-smdvv" returns only two hits, one being an unanswered post to
> > this very list about someone with the same error :-(
> > (this is a x86_64 workstation, but with an i386 firefox)
> 
> I just saw that all this has generated selinux messages, so I tried
> "setenforce 0" and tried running the "Console" again... now I get a
> nice "Aborted" message from firefox, crashing miserably.

Solution :
- rpm -e firefox.i386
- rpm -Uvh mozilla-1.7.12-5.i386.rpm   #(taken from FC5...)
- sudo chown myuid: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/plugins
- mozilla

And the "Console" works. But this is definitely not an acceptable
production solution, merely okay for emergencies...

Matthias

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