Re: Re: Strange bug, help needed
I am getting the same problem and this is what I have found / done / etc.
-The bug does not occur when firefox is run as root
-The bug first appeared when I upgraded to firefox 3
-Because of that I backed out and returned to firefox 2.0.0.14 but the
bug remains for all users other than root
-I had copies of firefox 2.0.0.12 and firefox 2.0.0.4, both of which I
had upgraded from a while back.
-But, I get the same problem with all three versions that had run fine
before for about a year
-When I search google I find over 300,000 hits all reporting the same
problem and some reporting it with other programs as well
-there are numerous suggestions to recompile from source using different
malloc routines however it seems that this makes no difference
-there are instances where it is reported that the problem stopped but
always for unknown reasons
-Because firefox runs fine under root I made sure that everyone had root
privileges on all relevant files and that made no difference
-on a suggestion that the firefox profile might have become corrupted I
created new profiles for each user and again the problem did not go away
- however, using a new profile for root does not cause the problem -
root still runs fine
-on a suggestion that flash was the problem, I removed all instances of
it with no results
-on a suggestion that firefox add-ons caused the problem I removed them
and still the problem remains
-memtest is fine
-one user suggested that the problem is an old copy of ArchImage, but I
do not use it
-I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the firefox library and it makes no
difference
-some suggest that SCIM is the problem but I am not running it.
Now, any more suggestions? Thousands of firefox users would appreciate
the help.
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