Firefox Problems

rshol · 02-09-2005, 12:56 PM

I'm running Mepis 3.3 Test 2. Firefox crashes with the message "Bus error" when I attempt to run it from a terminal session (it won't start at all otherwise). The firefox version is 1.0+dfsg.1-5 as reported by kpackage.

Matir · 02-09-2005, 02:33 PM

Bus error in an otherwise stable program often means bad hardware. Have you tried a different version of firefox? Do you see any other similar errors with other programs?

rshol · 02-09-2005, 04:49 PM

No problems with other software noted. I've been using the machine all day and it seems stable (I'm browsing using konq). I had some locale errors crop up but I generated new locales and the that went away. I've uninstalled firefox and reinstalled the deb package using apt-get. I'll try and download the firefox installer and see how that goes. For obvious reasons (like I'm lazy) I'd rather stick with the apt-get process. But if I must, I must.