On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:36, Lauri wrote: >> On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:51, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Sunday 23 April 2006 10:23, Stanton Finley wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 05:15 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> On Sunday 23 April 2006 04:58, Chris Lale wrote: >>>>>> Chris Lale wrote: >>>>>>> I cannot view PDFs using Firefox in Etch (Testing). I get: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "There was an error while loading the plugin - ewh.api. The >>>>>>> plugin failed to initialize." >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have these packages installed: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> acroread 7.0.5-0.0 >>>>>>> mozilla-acroread 7.0.5-0.0 >>>> >>>> As root do a "yum -y remove acroread mozilla-acroread" and then >>>> follow the instructions in the Adobe Reader section at >>>> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html. >>>> -- >>>> Stanton Finley >>>> http://stanton-finley.net/ >>> >>> And I forgot to note in the previous message that for some reason, >>> selinux is disabling acroread unless set for permissive. This >>> needs addressed also. I don't want to have to depend on a tail of >>> the log to tell me when things are going in the toilet. >> >> To add more details, I have now read the manpage for selinux, >> touched /.autorelabel and rebooted after setting selinux back to >> enforcing. It did re-run the autolabeling function on the reboot. >> >> No change, an attempt to run acroread from the icon fails, and from >> the cli, this message is output: >> >> [root@diablo ~]# acroread >> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error >> while loading shared >> libraries: >> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/libJP2K.so: cannot >> restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied >> >> I've investigated the system-config-securitylevel thing, which FWIW >> thought it was in the enforcing mode when /etc/selinux/config said >> otherwise, so thats obviously broken right there, and went thru the >> menu's looking for something to check or uncheck but didn't find any >> 'suspects' that might control the above. >> >> This subject has been noted, at some length now in this and similar >> threads, with no one offering a helpfull comment so far. Is this >> something that only the NSA can answer? Or is there an FM I haven't >> read because I don't know of its existance so I can do the RT >> portion? > ># chcon -t texrel_shlib_t >/usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/*.so > >Lauri Thank you very much Lauri, that worked like a champ. But why does it seem to be such a huge secret other than its ulitmately being usefull to the blackhats? I assume that this command line (the top line above) can be used against any other known good (we think) but similarly malfunctioning (the bottom line above) program? -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
