[SOLVED] Firefox 3.5 Not Loading

willysr · 07-12-2009, 12:31 AM

i know, i'm downloading it now

i will start testing it

willysr · 07-12-2009, 12:46 AM

Nope, this issue still a problem with Firefox 3.5 from -Current and when libsafe is installed.
If i comment the libsafe entry in /etc/ld.so.preload, the Firefox will work as it is

shadowsnipes · 07-12-2009, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by willysr

Nope, this issue still a problem with Firefox 3.5 from -Current and when libsafe is installed.
If i comment the libsafe entry in /etc/ld.so.preload, the Firefox will work as it is

I expected this. Have you reported this issue directly to Pat or one of the Slackware team members? This is especially important now that FF3.5 is in -current.

grissiom · 07-12-2009, 04:39 AM

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Originally Posted by shadowsnipes

I expected this. Have you reported this issue directly to Pat or one of the Slackware team members? This is especially important now that FF3.5 is in -current.

I wonder whether Pat and his team are responsible for this as libsafe is not included in official slackware distribution. I think you should report it to mozilla instead.

shadowsnipes · 07-12-2009, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by grissiom

I wonder whether Pat and his team are responsible for this as libsafe is not included in official slackware distribution. I think you should report it to mozilla instead.

Good eye on that one. Agreed.

Also, it might be worth checking out if one of the distros that have libsafe (maybe Fedora?) have any work arounds for FF 3.5 in place.

willysr · 07-12-2009, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by shadowsnipes

I expected this. Have you reported this issue directly to Pat or one of the Slackware team members? This is especially important now that FF3.5 is in -current.

I have reported this to Eric, but at that time Firefox 3.5 wasn't included in -Current, so i stopped bothering him

I did have reported this to Pat this morning, and i'm sure he (or one of the crews) will come out with a solution in the following days

willysr · 07-12-2009, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by grissiom

I wonder whether Pat and his team are responsible for this as libsafe is not included in official slackware distribution. I think you should report it to mozilla instead.

libsafe does included. In /extra though.

I did have reported to Mozilla, but they didn't give any clear solution yet.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501573

willysr · 07-12-2009, 10:48 AM

here's another report on Arch Linux
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503206

sahko · 07-12-2009, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by willysr

libsafe does included. In /extra though.

Only in 32bit

willysr · 07-12-2009, 11:13 AM

yes, since libsafe is no longer updated again (AFAIK), thus it may not work on 64 bit

sahko · 07-12-2009, 11:23 AM

Sorry i misread what you said above. The problem is having libsafe installed, & not if its absent.

willysr · 07-12-2009, 01:27 PM

indeed. It only occurred when libsafe is installed.
But this works on 3.0.11 but not in 3.5 and it happened on a default configuration (in this case libsafe is installed intentionally by the users with some expectation that it would give them better protection to some security problems with other applications)

grissiom · 07-12-2009, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by willysr

libsafe does included. In /extra though.

Sorry, I only "find -iname '*safe*'" in 64-current mirror but not in 32bit ;( I hope you can get some idea from Pat...

Bruce Hill · 07-13-2009, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by grissiom

Sorry, I only "find -iname '*safe*'" in 32-current mirror but not in 64bit ;( I hope you can get some idea from Pat...

That's probably because the last release of libsafe was May 21 2002,
and it's 32-bit, iirc. Alien Bob was building everything in -current
for Slackware for x86_64, and probably skipped such software as that.

willysr · 07-13-2009, 12:48 AM

it's also possible it won't build on x86_64, so it's not included in Slackware64 repository