Hi,
After updating to 1.5.0.7-1.fc5 (on a rather pristine FC5 installation) I got the wildly reported error when trying to access a site over HTTPS:
Unexpected response from server Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server. * Check to make sure your system has the Personal Security Manager installed.
After much googling, grumbling and yumming, I finally got it working with these updates (I'm not sure if the openssl was necessary):
yum list firefox nss openssl mod_ssl
firefox.i386 1.5.0.7-1.fc5 mod_ssl.i386 1:2.2.2-1.2 nss.i386 3.11.3-0.5.fc5 openssl.i686 0.9.8a-5.3
My question is now, why are these packages not updated by yum as dependencies of firefox? Surely, accessing https sites is a rather common task. Even my mom needs this.
Unfortunately, I've not had the time to check if this has changed in FC6 Test 3.
Regards,
Havard
Havard Rast Blok wrote:
After much googling, grumbling and yumming, I finally got it working with these updates (I'm not sure if the openssl was necessary):
yum list firefox nss openssl mod_ssl
firefox.i386 1.5.0.7-1.fc5 mod_ssl.i386 1:2.2.2-1.2 nss.i386 3.11.3-0.5.fc5 openssl.i686 0.9.8a-5.3
My question is now, why are these packages not updated by yum as dependencies of firefox?
There *is* a dependancy on nss, but you probably just had an older (non-functioning) version. Updating it to the latest (probably) is what fixed it.
-- Rex
On 9/26/06, Havard Rast Blok newsmail1@hblok.net wrote:
After updating to 1.5.0.7-1.fc5 (on a rather pristine FC5 installation) I got the wildly reported error when trying to access a site over HTTPS:
Unexpected response from server Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with the server. * Check to make sure your system has the Personal Security Manager installed.
After much googling, grumbling and yumming, I finally got it working with these updates (I'm not sure if the openssl was necessary):
yum list firefox nss openssl mod_ssl
firefox.i386 1.5.0.7-1.fc5 mod_ssl.i386 1:2.2.2-1.2 nss.i386 3.11.3-0.5.fc5 openssl.i686 0.9.8a-5.3
My question is now, why are these packages not updated by yum as dependencies of firefox? Surely, accessing https sites is a rather common task. Even my mom needs this.
My impression is that there is an unstated dependency between firefox and the exact version of nss that it was built against. The new firefox needs the new nss to work correctly. "yum update firefox" will only update its depdencies if there is a depdency between the versions. Updating just firefox causes a failure. Most people didn't see a problem because they did "yum update" and updated them together.
- Ian