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ganlu

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From: ChongQing, China

Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 360

[SOLVED]firefox -52.0.1-2-x86_64 crashes and refuses to start

I updated firefox to -2 pkg, but after that firefox can't start and always reports crash with its own crash reporter.  I downgrade to -1 pkg, everything goes well again. Has anyone had the same issue? Thanks.
I tried to start firefox with a clean profile, but the same error occured.

[gl@mypc ~]$ firefox
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 1220
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
Bus error (core dumped)

Last edited by ganlu (2017-03-24 15:15:22)

ganlu

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From: ChongQing, China

Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 360

Re: [SOLVED]firefox -52.0.1-2-x86_64 crashes and refuses to start

After upgrading of today, Firefox works again, don't know why, since only thing upgraded is binutils.

kde35

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Registered: 2015-04-13

Posts: 71

Re: [SOLVED]firefox -52.0.1-2-x86_64 crashes and refuses to start

I don't know if I should open a new thread since this one is marked as solved, but I have the same problem with firefox-53.0.3-1-i686, and updating binutils
doesn't solve the problem.  Besides, I can't tell when the problem started as I don't use firefox very often on this machine, and an attempt to use downgraded
firefox leads to errors like

$ firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
libicui18n.so.58: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

(this one was with firefox-52.0.2-1, but with any other older version of firefox, I get a similar error with different version number of the
shared object file).  Any idea on how to fix this?