Subject: Re: firefox-bin + xorg (was Re: Xorg vs XFree86)
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/10/2006 14:08:24
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:55:34AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20060110123306.GA18919@lori.ghen.be>, Geert Hendrickx writes:
> >On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:30:09AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >> In message <20060110080546.GA10899@lori.ghen.be>, Geert Hendrickx writes:
> >> >firefox-linux keeps segfaulting for me on xorg systems, although acroread
> >> >and other linux binaries work just fine. Anyone else having this problem?
> >>
> >> The segfaults are fixed by this technique...
> >
> >Not for me...
>
> Hmm -- that did solve it for me and at least one other person. You did run
>
> /usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/fc-cache --force
>
> (I forgot the --force option before....)
Yes, I did that (with --force).
Btw, other Linux binaries, like acroread7 and mozilla-bin, work just fine.
Also, the "import settings" dialog (showed at the first run after an rm
.mozilla/firefox) works. Only after that, or at any subsequent startup
(when the browser itself is launched), it segfaults.
Geert