[oS-en] Firefox suddenly requests to restart to apply an update.
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On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/38980520de1c
-- Cheers
Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast. -- Support Policy not Politicians.
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [06-18-23 14:57]:
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled.
check version of visible/runnine firefox then rpm -qi /usr/bin/firefox compare versions -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc
On 2023-06-18 21:01, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [06-18-23 14:57]:
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled.
check version of visible/runnine firefox then rpm -qi /usr/bin/firefox
compare versions
Laicolasse:~ # rpm -qi /usr/bin/firefox package /usr/bin/firefox is not installed Laicolasse:~ # which firefox /usr/bin/firefox Laicolasse:~ # rpm -qif /usr/bin/firefox Name : MozillaFirefox Version : 102.12.0 Release : 150200.152.90.1 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Thu Jun 15 13:57:44 2023 Group : Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers Size : 233097671 License : MPL-2.0 Signature : RSA/SHA256, Fri Jun 2 15:49:55 2023, Key ID 70af9e8139db7c82 Source RPM : MozillaFirefox-102.12.0-150200.152.90.1.src.rpm Build Date : Fri Jun 2 15:35:59 2023 Build Host : goat06 Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : https://www.suse.com/ Vendor : SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> URL : http://www.mozilla.org/ Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web Browser Description : Mozilla Firefox is a standalone web browser, designed for standards compliance and performance. Its functionality can be enhanced via a plethora of extensions. Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Laicolasse:~ # -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:06:55 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2023-06-18 21:01, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [06-18-23 14:57]:
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled.
check version of visible/runnine firefox then rpm -qi /usr/bin/firefox
compare versions
Laicolasse:~ # rpm -qi /usr/bin/firefox package /usr/bin/firefox is not installed Laicolasse:~ # which firefox /usr/bin/firefox Laicolasse:~ # rpm -qif /usr/bin/firefox Name : MozillaFirefox Version : 102.12.0 Release : 150200.152.90.1 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Thu Jun 15 13:57:44 2023 Group : Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers Size : 233097671 License : MPL-2.0 Signature : RSA/SHA256, Fri Jun 2 15:49:55 2023, Key ID 70af9e8139db7c82 Source RPM : MozillaFirefox-102.12.0-150200.152.90.1.src.rpm Build Date : Fri
err, how can you be running 102.11 if the original source is 102.12?
Jun 2 15:35:59 2023 Build Host : goat06 Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : https://www.suse.com/ Vendor : SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> URL : http://www.mozilla.org/ Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web Browser Description : Mozilla Firefox is a standalone web browser, designed for standards compliance and performance. Its functionality can be enhanced via a plethora of extensions. Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Laicolasse:~ #
On 2023-06-18 21:45, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:06:55 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2023-06-18 21:01, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [06-18-23 14:57]:
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled.
check version of visible/runnine firefox then rpm -qi /usr/bin/firefox
compare versions
Laicolasse:~ # rpm -qi /usr/bin/firefox package /usr/bin/firefox is not installed Laicolasse:~ # which firefox /usr/bin/firefox Laicolasse:~ # rpm -qif /usr/bin/firefox Name : MozillaFirefox Version : 102.12.0 Release : 150200.152.90.1 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Thu Jun 15 13:57:44 2023 Group : Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers Size : 233097671 License : MPL-2.0 Signature : RSA/SHA256, Fri Jun 2 15:49:55 2023, Key ID 70af9e8139db7c82 Source RPM : MozillaFirefox-102.12.0-150200.152.90.1.src.rpm Build Date : Fri
err, how can you be running 102.11 if the original source is 102.12?
Because zypper or yast had updated it 3 days ago (zypper ps and the logs showed this). Instead of power off I hibernated by mistake the machine, and today I did not remember that. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On 6/18/23 13:57, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled.
Well, guess what. It did upgrade. -- Support Policy not Politicians.
On 18.06.23 20:57, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled. Run yast2 online_update and check if "Automatic Online Update" is enabled. If so, probably a new version of firefox was pulled in in background by that automatic update
On 2023-06-18 21:29, Markus Koßmann wrote:
On 18.06.23 20:57, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled. Run yast2 online_update and check if "Automatic Online Update" is enabled. If so, probably a new version of firefox was pulled in in background by that automatic update
Where would that be? It wasn't enabled before upgrading to 15.5. If I try to configure online update, it asks to install "yast2-online-update.configuration", so it is not installed. But "zypper ps" does show in-use deleted files, included firefox. The journal shows there were updates days ago, on the 15th, and Firefox was indeed updated then. So, maybe I forgot to reboot or hibernated instead, and then forgot. Hugh :-( Well, mystery half solved. Thanks. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On 2023-06-18 13:57:01 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled.
But Firefox's internal update logic (or at least its Settings) doesn't necessarily know that it's disabled, and maybe during the previous update that setting reverted to auto-update, so it tried even though it can't. It's happened to me before; the Firefox Settings aren't immutable over updates. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)
On 2023-06-19 20:29, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2023-06-18 13:57:01 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-06-18 20:11, Bill Walsh wrote:
On 6/18/23 13:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Leap 15.5, using 102.11.0esr, on opening any new page, I get a page (see photo on link) saying to restart firefox to apply update. This whould be impossible, updates happened through YaST only.
Bug?
Have I been hacked?
Firefox can update itself. No need for Yast.
No, it can't in openSUSE, for over 20 years. It is intentionally disabled.
But Firefox's internal update logic (or at least its Settings) doesn't necessarily know that it's disabled, and maybe during the previous update that setting reverted to auto-update, so it tried even though it can't. It's happened to me before; the Firefox Settings aren't immutable over updates.
No, it wasn't that. I had updated the system normally, with YaST. It asked to reboot. I powered off, but by mistake, I told the machine to hibernate instead. Some days later, I had forgotten all that and started the machine. So the updates had been applied in the rpms, but not in ram. Running processes, including firefox, were running, on restore from hibernation, the old version, while the files on disk were updated. Firefox update logic detected this, but it was not the only one affected. zypper ps showed the issue, the logs confirmed when the rpms were updated. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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