Today I decided to play a little with Current (32-bit, no multilibs). Everything is updated. I'm running insided VirtualBox.

I can't start Firefox 8.0.1. Running from a terminal window reveals a segmentation fault.

Running from within gdb reveals a possible connection to libgio:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb5b9715e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0

8.0.1 runs fine in 13.37 in VirtualBox.

Same results with safe mode.

Any ideas?

Here's an idea: run
there should be no output. To save hassle, I usually put the firefox dir in /etc/ld.so.conf and rerun ldconfig.

Yes, no output.

Running ldd in 13.37 and Current show the same results. Same version of glib2 is used in both versions.

have you firefox's path in ld.so.conf?

That ldd is actually a forked thing, btw. if you run
cd /usr/lib64/firefox*
ldd firefox-bin

It may pass, because the libs are in the same directory. But if you run
cd ~/
ldd /usr/lib/64/firefox-bin
it should show you any problems. Thak off the |grep found just to be sure - it should be shopwing you a pile of libs. check that at least some are from the firefox dir.

Not there in 13.37 --- so why is that needed in Current?

Made no difference anyway. Same segmentation fault.

Same results regardless of where I run ldd and same results as in 13.37.

If you did an upgrade vs an new installation did you run slackpkg install-new

Yes.

I'm having the same issue with FF 8, and also just tried the brand new FF 10.. going back to FF 4 works fine... Is there perhaps another package that needs to be upgraded as well?

basically if you upgraded to -Current, then all packages should be upgraded to -Current since there has been a basic toolchain that gets upgraded in the latest batch of update

You might had a bad upgrade. I did and end up reinstalling a,d,k,l,x,xap to fix several issues even though I was able to boot to the console. I probably didn't have to reinstall everything in each section but i did anyways.

As colorpurple21859 stated perhaps you had a bad -current upgrade. I am running slackware-current (32 bit) and FF 8.x ran just fine on it. Upgraded my -current boxes to FF 10.0 and all is well.

I was having the same problems trying to upgrade to FF10 on my Slackware 13.37 install. I took a hint from colorpurple, and used slackpkg. I ran the command "slackpkg search firefox" (after doing slackpkg update) and it told me there was what looked like a patch named mozilla-firefox-10.0.1-x86_64-1_slack13.37. I ran the command "slackpkg upgrade mozilla-firefox-10.0.1-x86_64-1_slack13.37", and it upgraded firefox, and apparently whatever other libs were missing, and now Firefox 10.0.1 is working for me.

Hope this helps someone.

Thanks, yeah, upgrading everything to current via slackpkg worked...