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neok

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From: Cyprus

Registered: 2003-12-14

Posts: 190

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Firefox, thunderbird and elinks fail to start

Hi all,

After trying out a USB bootable version of Feather Linux I found that firefox, thunderbird and elinks fail to start. This is what I get in xterm: (nothing from firefox, just doesn't start).

5b4az tmp # elinks
Segmentation fault

5b4az tmp # mozilla-thunderbird
*** global extensions startup!
*** profile extensions startup
/opt/mozilla-thunderbird/lib/thunderbird-0.6/run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 743 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
 
5b4az tmp # mozilla-firefox     
5b4az tmp #

Other browsers I tried (links, lynx) work OK and so do other Internet apps (pacman, xmms etc).

I have the impression that this is a GUI problem since links and lynx are purely text based while elinks has graphical support. In this case the fault could be some file|lib|resource common to the failing apps.

I run a simple desktop: aewm++ wm with fspanel and ROX filer with it panel. No gnome/kde installed.

Surely any tips/ideas will be warmly welcomed!

Thanks in advance.

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Regards

Neoklis ... Ham Radio Call: 5B4AZ

zeppelin

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 807

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Re: Firefox, thunderbird and elinks fail to start

the Best-First search (for solution) algorithm proposes something like:

pacman -Rs mozilla-thunderbird, mozilla-firefox, elinks
pacman -Sy mozilla-thunderbird, mozilla-firefox, elinks

GoodLuck buddy
bestFS terminated.

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neok

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From: Cyprus

Registered: 2003-12-14

Posts: 190

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Re: Firefox, thunderbird and elinks fail to start

the Best-First search (for solution) algorithm proposes something like:

pacman -Rs mozilla-thunderbird, mozilla-firefox, elinks
pacman -Sy mozilla-thunderbird, mozilla-firefox, elinks

Thanks for this tip! In order to find out just what went wrong I did a pacman -Sy on each of the common dependencies and found that openssl was the problem. Re-installing got everything working but still don't know why running a linux distro from a bootable USB corrupted openssl on the hd or how this caused segfaults in these apps.

Still, very happy that the problem is fixed!

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Regards

Neoklis ... Ham Radio Call: 5B4AZ

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