Slackware 13.1 first batch of updates

sljunkie · 06-28-2010, 02:35 PM

Well, that's about it - the firefox and thunderbird packages included on the first batch of official 13.1 updates keep crashing when I try to print a web page or an e-mail. Seamonkey, updated as well, can print as usual.

Any thoughts?

rweaver · 06-28-2010, 02:38 PM

start a session from the console and then see if any errors get displayed, check your logs and see if they're providing additional details.

sljunkie · 06-28-2010, 03:03 PM

No error output on console.

Here's the crash report, I tried to print the default start page:

Add-ons: {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.6.6
BuildID: 20100625222733
CrashTime: 1277755222
EMCheckCompatibility: true
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0dea000
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1277752415
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 1022
StartupTime: 1277755215
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
URL: http://www.google.com.br/firefox?cli...en-US:official
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.6.6

rpedrica · 06-28-2010, 03:11 PM

Same here except it seems it's any mozilla apps including Seamonkey ...

Started from the console I get the following error when printing:

bash-4.1$ seamonkey
/usr/lib64/seamonkey-2.0.5/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 4782 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Have removed all plugins and disabled most of my extensions but no go ...

sljunkie · 06-29-2010, 10:30 AM

And for the worst part, when I tried to downgrade firefox, thunderbird, and seamonkey (ie, reinstalling the packages on the DVD) the problem persists! How come...?

mlangdn · 06-29-2010, 10:41 AM

I just printed a web page and an email without incident. Did you upgrade both cups and ghostscript as well?

sljunkie · 06-29-2010, 10:53 AM

mlangdn,

Yes, I did upgrade cups and ghostscript, and I can print from within seamonkey. Ah, I'm on a 32-bit machine.

gapan · 06-29-2010, 11:07 AM

Same problem here on a 64-bit system.

edit: Tried the latest nightly binary distributed from mozilla.org, that one crashes on printing too.

samac · 06-29-2010, 01:06 PM

Prints OK from both on Slackware64-13.1 (multi-lib).

samac

sljunkie · 06-29-2010, 03:39 PM

I think I found the problem - I had gnome-vfs 2.24.3 installed, removed it and the printing issues were over.

Does anybody else who's had this problem has a gnome-vfs installed too?

gapan · 06-29-2010, 03:50 PM

You're right, I had gnome-vfs 2.24.2 installed and after removing it, it works.

rpedrica · 06-29-2010, 04:41 PM

Wow sljunkie, worked for me too - how'd you find that out?

sljunkie · 06-29-2010, 08:46 PM

Hey rpedrica,

I created a new account to test how firefox would behave, and the console complained something about ~/.gnome and gnome-vfs... that was the clue I needed

I believe that the real problem is that firefox and thunderbird are distributed as static binaries.

lynnwood · 06-29-2010, 09:17 PM

This problem does not exist on my Slackware 13.0 box with FF 3.6.6 and gnome-vfs-2.24.1.

/hoping to get a patch to apply to my slack 13.1 system soon

gapan · 06-30-2010, 02:24 AM

No problem in my 13.0 installation with gnome-vfs 2.24.1 either. It's only a problem with 13.1 for some reason.