segmentation fault with firefox 3
 

So I managed to get a copy of athene and I think it's just fabulous albeit a little outdated.

SO, I tried to get a copy of firefox 3 to run. Success! by following these instructions:

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikewilli.../of_firefox_3/

as well as installing dbus libraries.

Well, firefox 3.5 didn't work but firefox 3.0 did. But I wanted to get flash to work.

Installing flash plugin I get an error that I need glibc 2.4. OK. SO compiled glibc to prefix /usr/local/me (where I installed the other libraries as per instructions from link).

Now I get a segmentation fault when I try to run firefox. What gives?

Any ideas?

Welcome to LQ.

Glibc-2.4 may be corrupt ?
Did the 'make check' pass the tests ? ?

A possible solution : Use a 'flash-player'
meant for Suse 10 ( If that is your OS.)

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat...0-1.1.i586.rpm
> > flash-player-9.0.48.0-1.1.i586.rpm
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First of all, thanks for responding.

I'm not sure what "make check" does or how/when to run it. All I know is ./configure, make, make install. Can you elaborate on this.

For building a working Glibc, please use the
instructions in LFS, e.g. version 6.3
ftp://ftp.eenet.ee/pub/gentoo/distfi...3-HTML.tar.bz2
Glibc : Sections 5.6 and 6.9
... or book-6.2
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/6.2/
./configure --<option> --<option> && make && make check &&
make install .
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But why not give an older flash player a try ?
Building a usable glibc isn't necessarily easy.
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