https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336055#c18
--- Comment #18 from Paul Abrahams 2007-10-29 17:38:38 MST ---
Problem solved!!!
I removed the entire /opt/gnome directory and both firefox (the OpenSuSE
version) and emacs came back to life. I also discovered that /opt/gnome got
its files from the opt_gnome-compat package and I deleted that also. I guess
that I'll put it back if I ever run gnome instead of KDE.
Since your job is to fix bugs, not assist users (except in passing), the
interesting question for you is: what caused the errors and what in the
distribution needs to be changed? The problem as far as I can tell is that
there's a search path (which one?) that referred to something in /opt/gnome,
and /opt/gnome preceded the correct library directory in that search path. So
the installation, particularly for upgrades, needs to ensure that that path is
correct.
Now we know why I made no progress despite updating every package in sight.
Thanks for your help -- I hope that some good for the project came of this.
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