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Old 02-16-2006, 02:00 AM   #1
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Question Firefox 1.5 does not work in my Mandriva 2006


I downloaded a *.tar.gz file, use tar zxvf to unpack it, go to the folder created, run ./firefox, it just hanged.
One row of message that i don't understand appeared.
Why?
 
Old 02-16-2006, 02:01 AM   #2
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*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08c3ce20 ***
 
Old 02-16-2006, 04:29 AM   #3
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The RPM`s work, and are kept up-to-date with current releases
 
Old 02-16-2006, 05:00 AM   #4
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That's only one line of the messages that it displayed?
If yes put all the other messages.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 10:03 AM   #5
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Tiger: I *think* that it is a consequence of moving to the new gcc compiler. I have experienced similar problems compiling other source tarballs I have downloaded. But I have found what I need on the easyurpmi repositories, so I have "worked around" the problem.
 
Old 05-11-2006, 02:09 AM   #6
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Ok I found a fix for this here

http://www.penguinpusher.org/2005/12...-mandriva-2006

I just created a bash script like the following in my /usr/bin directory called /usr/bin/firefox

#! /bin/bash

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim /usr/lib/firefox/firefox


My firefox is installed at /usr/lib/firefox/ so change your script above accordingly.

don't forget to chmod +x /usr/bin/firefox

Last edited by xnomad; 05-11-2006 at 02:21 AM.
 
Old 05-12-2006, 11:01 PM   #7
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similar problems

i have almost the same problem he has.But i came up with a different error message:

./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

im not kidding about my sig either :/
 
Old 05-14-2006, 04:15 PM   #8
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You need to install the libstdc++5 package.
 
  


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