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Title: yahoo messenger not starting
Post by: shiva_godav_iitm on December 31, 2004, 03:46:52 PM
yahoo messenger is not starting in my fedora core3.....when i type ymessenger at the command prompt......it says segmentation fault......i installed fedora core 3 from the isos i downloaded from redhat.com.............................and md5sum also worked well with the downloads.........pls help me out.............
Title: yahoo messenger not starting
Post by: Ricky on January 01, 2005, 03:42:23 PM
See this http://www.linuxsolved.com/forums/ftopic150.html
and there was also another thread similar to that where people have posted few solutions for it.
Title: yahoo messenger not starting
Post by: gauravbajaj on January 06, 2005, 03:51:06 AM
hi buddies
i know how to solve this pb,please write step by step
first uninstall your messenger by:
#rpm -e ymessenger-version
                        (here version is ur versiion of yahoo messenger  )
then del these files  by using command:
#rm -rf  /opt/ymessenger
after that del these files also , this is very imp step , command is
#rm -rf .ymessenger
after that step install yahoo messenger rpm again, by command
#rpm -ivh yahoomessengerversion
after that type command
#ymessenger


 it definitly works,
bye
Title: yahoo messenger not starting
Post by: lady_core on September 24, 2005, 08:31:00 AM
Quote from: "gauravbajaj"
hi buddies
i know how to solve this pb,please write step by step
first uninstall your messenger by:
#rpm -e ymessenger-version
                        (here version is ur versiion of yahoo messenger  )
then del these files  by using command:
#rm -rf  /opt/ymessenger
after that del these files also , this is very imp step , command is
#rm -rf .ymessenger
after that step install yahoo messenger rpm again, by command
#rpm -ivh yahoomessengerversion
after that type command
#ymessenger


 it definitly works,
bye


I did it all...but ehan I type the instalation part it says:

/etc/security/selinux/file_contexts: No such file or directory
error: open of ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP. :cry: