Up untill an hour ago firefox was working well on my mandrake 10.1 system. then for some reason known only to experts it ceased to function. So I decided to reinstall the program and this is what I get

[root@tewaru fox]# cd /usr/local/fox
[root@tewaru fox]# tar -zxvf firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz
firefox-installer/
firefox-installer/xpi/
firefox-installer/xpi/adt.xpi
firefox-installer/xpi/browser.xpi

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Can anyone enlighten on what to do next Thanks
Tewaru

Looks like your download appears to be corrupt. Either download it again or use a Mandrake Firefox rpm.

Downloaded firefox again now i get this
root@tewaru firefox-installer]# ./firefox-installer
SCIM: im_module_init
free(): invalid pointer 0x8266078!
free(): invalid pointer 0x8266050!
./firefox-installer: line 56: 15722 Segmentation fault ./${BINNAME}-bin $@
where to now
thanks tewaru

I have the same problem. I'm using Mandrake 10.1. I uninstalled (deleted) everything, the firefox directory and the profile directory. I tried to re-install but I come across this message:

SCIM: im_module_init
free(): invalid pointer 0x81f55b8!
free(): invalid pointer 0x81f5590!
./firefox-installer: line 56: 12064 Segmentation fault ./${BINNAME}-bin $@

I am stuck. Help.

I am afraid that in the end i waited and with no replies. I refreshed mandrake 10.1 by reinstalling over the original and I still got the same message. So I bit the bullet, cleared the hard drive and done a complete install of mandrake 10.1 and everything is working fine now. This is the first time that I have had to this and I have been running from mandrake 7.1. I installed mandrake 10.1 over mandrake 10 and I must admit things were not as stable as usual, I have had up till now a nice run with mandrake linux.
I hope someone can solve your problem before you have to do anything drastic
cheers Tewaru

I have been point in the direction of this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/262899

It might help. I will report back after I have had a go.