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Willie Green

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Registered: 2009-06-12

Posts: 70

Browsers crash after update (SOLVED - sort of)

After pacman -Syu today, Midori and Epiphany both crash when I try to use the Google search bar.
Firefox seems to be working OK.
Is this happening to anybody else?
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Edit: This morning I had another update:

upgraded libwebkit (1.1.15.1-1 -> 1.1.15.2-1)

And now Midori and Epiphany don't bomb on me when I access Google.
So that must've been the one that had a problem of some kind.

Anyway, I'm back to "normal" again, so Thank-you very much to the mysterious forces who fixed this!

Last edited by Willie Green (2009-10-13 12:25:46)

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,577

Re: Browsers crash after update (SOLVED - sort of)

Find the exact package that caused the problem by selectively downgrading.  Probably libsoup, libsoup-gnome, libwebkit, something like that.

And Midori works fine for me after this latest batch of upgrades

Willie Green

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Registered: 2009-06-12

Posts: 70

Re: Browsers crash after update (SOLVED - sort of)

OK, I can try that...
Is there a way to list what the last upgrades were?
I remember that there were quite a few today, which surprised me because my last update was only yesterday.

BTW, it's not just the Google search bar. It seems to happen no matter which way I access Google. Other websites seem OK, but I really haven't browsed around much to really test it out.

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1LordAnubis

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Registered: 2008-10-10

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Re: Browsers crash after update (SOLVED - sort of)

Try looking in /var/log/pacman.log

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japetto

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From: Chicago, IL US

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Re: Browsers crash after update (SOLVED - sort of)

Same here and I just cleared my package cache,

Willie Green

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Registered: 2009-06-12

Posts: 70

Re: Browsers crash after update (SOLVED - sort of)

Thanks... pacman.log has all the info I need.
But there were 30 packages that were updated today...
Any suggestions how I can narrow the selection of which ones to selectively downgrade? Maybe somehow figuring out what dependencies Midori and Epiphany have in common, but not Firefox?

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Willie Green

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Registered: 2009-06-12

Posts: 70

Re: Browsers crash after update (SOLVED - sort of)

Might as well post my pacman.log for today, just so folks can see what I'm looking at.

[2009-10-12 18:02] synchronizing package lists
[2009-10-12 18:02] starting full system upgrade
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded glib2 (2.20.4-1 -> 2.22.2-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded atk (1.26.0-1 -> 1.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded conky (1.7.2-1 -> 1.7.2-2)
[2009-10-12 18:07] installed eggdbus (0.5-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] installed polkit (0.94-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded consolekit (0.3.0-5 -> 0.3.1-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded pango (1.24.5-1 -> 1.26.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded gtk2 (2.16.5-1 -> 2.18.2-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded libsoup (2.26.3-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded libwebkit (1.1.10-2 -> 1.1.15.1-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded gconf (2.26.2-3 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded gnome-keyring (2.26.3-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] installed libsoup-gnome (2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded epiphany (2.26.3-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded epiphany-extensions (2.26.1-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded gnome-desktop (2.26.3-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded gnome-icon-theme (2.26.0-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded pygobject (2.18.0-1 -> 2.20.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded pygtk (2.14.1-4 -> 2.16.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded libbonobo (2.24.1-1 -> 2.24.2-1)
[2009-10-12 18:07] upgraded gnome-vfs (2.24.1-2 -> 2.24.2-1)
[2009-10-12 18:08] upgraded libgnome (2.26.0-2 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:08] upgraded libbonoboui (2.24.1-1 -> 2.24.2-1)
[2009-10-12 18:08] upgraded libgnomeui (2.24.1-1 -> 2.24.2-1)
[2009-10-12 18:08] upgraded gnome-python (2.26.1-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:08] upgraded gnome-python-desktop (2.26.0-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:08] upgraded libgtop (2.26.1-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:08] upgraded libunique (1.0.8-1 -> 1.1.2-1)
[2009-10-12 18:08] upgraded libwnck (2.26.2-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-12 18:08] upgraded vte (0.20.5-1 -> 0.22.2-1)

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