Re: Mozilla 1.3 about:plugins->crash
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:28:22PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>
>
> > I just installed mozilla 1.3.1-3, built from Debian source on a mostly
> > testing system with gcc3.3.
> >
> > Whenever I go to help about plug-ins, mozilla crashes. It seems to
> > work OK apart from that, though I haven't visited pages with plugins.
> >
> > I have installed http://jopa.studentenweb.org ./ j2re1.4 1.4.1-6,
> > after having installed the blackdown 1.4 (which I gather was built
> > with an earlier gcc).
> >
> > I also have some other plugins (e.g., realplayer) which I guess were
> > built with an earlier gcc (although realplayer seems to be at the most
> > current version):
> > $ ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
> > flash_linux javaplugin_oji.so libnullplugin.so raclass.zip
> > ShockwaveFlash.class flashplayer.xpt libflashplayer.so nppdf.so
> > rpnp.so
> >
> > raclass.zip and rpnp.so are symlinks pointing to themselves. I tried
> > deleting them; it didn't help.
> >
> > Is this expected behavior if some of the plugins are built with an
> > incompatible gcc, or is something else going on?
>
> I'm not sure, but it might be. Have you tried removing or moving aside all of
> the plugins-- e.g. mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins{,-hold} -- and seeing if Moz
> still crashes? If it doesn't, then you can restore the plugins one by one
> and see which one causes the crashes.
A good suggestion. It crashes with an empty plugin directory; it also
crashes with just libnullplugin.so in the directory.
I've looked in logs, and don't see anything associated with the
crash. My .xsession-errors gets quite a lot of chatter from Mozilla
starting up:
Invalid entry (missing '=') at /usr/bin/mozilla:38
Invalid entry (missing '=') at /usr/bin/mozilla:43
....
Invalid entry (missing ']') at /usr/bin/mozilla:65
...
Invalid entry (second locale!?) at /usr/bin/mozilla:194
...
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/bin/mozilla has no Name
but nothing when it crashes. The system logs show
Aug 3 21:47:30 wheat gconfd (ross-30737): starting (version 2.2.1), pid 30737 user 'ross'
Aug 3 21:47:30 wheat gconfd (ross-30737): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0
Aug 3 21:47:30 wheat gconfd (ross-30737): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/ross/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Aug 3 21:47:30 wheat gconfd (ross-30737): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2
Aug 3 21:49:30 wheat gconfd (ross-30737): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
The final message indicates awareness of the crash, but not much more.
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