trasher

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I installed the Mandrake 10.1 yesterday.
I try to install firefox 1.01 but i have some error messages from the Konsole:

[root@d78221a firefox-installer]# ./firefox-installer
SCIM: im_module_init
free(): invalid pointer 0x81b9888!
free(): invalid pointer 0x81b9860!
./firefox-installer: line 56: 9108 Segmentation fault ./${BINNAME}-bin $@

please help...

titanium_geek

hmm.. I think you have to run firefox as a user (not root) so it can work. Try it. To install 1.01 on my mandrake (one user admitedly) I had the tar in my home folder. I untarred this using a gui (I just can't get the hang of the untar command) and then found the bashscript named firefox. I ran this in the konsole/terminal/whatever and it started the gui install of firefox. I hope this helps.

titanium_geek

trasher

[serhan@d78221a firefox-installer]$ ./firefox-installer
SCIM: im_module_init
free(): invalid pointer 0x81b5c48!
free(): invalid pointer 0x81b5c20!
./firefox-installer: line 56: 6956 Segmentation fault ./${BINNAME}-bin $@
[serhan@d78221a firefox-installer]$

I tried as a user, not su

the installation Gui appears but when i click the forward button konsole gives the error above.

trasher

By the way, what is segmantation fault?

titanium_geek

oops: I forgot: Welcome to LQ!

hmm... I think you may need to download another version of firefox. It might be a bad file.

What distro are you using? (it helps to fill out your profile )

titanium_geek

titanium_geek

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/s...ion-fault.html

should tell you what a segmentation fault is.

davcefai

You need to run the install script as root. Then, VERY IMPORTANT, run firefox as root so that it can set up some files. After that, run as a user.

Jiawen

I get the same error as trasher. I tried installing as root and had the same segfault problem.

I'm going to ask on the SCIM list; that might get more results. I'll post back here if I get something.

trasher

I think, i did not install some requirement.
According to mozzilla's site

Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher with the following libraries or packages:
glibc 2.3.2 or higher

XFree86-3.3.6 or higher

gtk+2.0 or higher

fontconfig (also known as xft)

libstdc++5

should be installed. I checked them and I realized that some packeages did not installed. Nowadays, i have some exams, i did not deal with Linux.

If I get something, i will inform you.
Thanks for your interest...

al5929

1. download the fire fox package and extract it

2. copy and paste the following into the console:

scim -f x11 -c simple -ns socket -d
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

3 run ./firefox installer

4 after install edit the "firefox" shell script with a text editor

5 paste the four line showen instage 2 under the opening comments and before "moz_pis_startstop_scripts()"
save and exit

now when you run the firefox shell script firefox should work normally

this method also works for thunderbird

Jiawen

Excellent! Thank you, al5929! It worked perfectly.

超好！謝謝，al5929! 都沒有問題！

trasher

Thanks for your interest, al5929.
I realized that my problem is c and c++ libraries problem, i uninstall them and reinstall them and installation of Firefox runs correctly.

I have some questions about the way you get rid of the problem.

scim -f x11 -c simple -ns socket -d
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

what these commands do, can you explain?(The reason i asked, simply i wanna learn Linux )

Thanks for your help again..

al5929

it was a freind that gave me this solution he told me that
if i have selected all the development tools during the mandrake installation
then a back ground service is also installed that can interfear with the operation of
many linux programs.

what the console commands do is to shutdown the service long enough
for the shell commands of certain programs to execute after a certain amount of time the service will
restart that is why it must be added to the console commands of all affected programs

programs that ihave found to be affected
firefox, thunderbird, netscape, real palyer(helix).

trasher

Thanks, al5929

Petrov Labitzke