Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash
Hi John,
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Carline wrote:
> Brad Sawatzky wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Carline wrote:
> >>Since upgrading my Sid box (i386) last week, Mozilla 1.7 crashes on many
> >>websites and when attempting to open email that calls up data from the
> >>web. The strange part about it is that it only happens to regular users,
> >>it does not crash when running under root.
> >Wild guesses might include:
> > - problem with java, shockwave, or other plugin/extension that is
> > 'auto-loaded' for all profiles
> > - corrupt mime.types or mailcap files
>
> I'll take all the wild guesses I can get. Thanks Brad.
>
> I've tried turning off java, and the only plugin remaining is the
> default libnullplugin.co. Basically the user setup is identical to the
> root setup.
>
> Hmmmm... corrupt mime.types or mailcap files?
>
> I'm not really sure what I'm doing here, but I've deleted old ~.mailcap
> and ~/mime.types; and then ran update-mime and run-mailcap with no
> change. Is there anything else I can do here?
No, I don't think so. That was really a long shot anyway -- I was just
trying to think of 'global' stuff that mozilla might be choking on...
> Installed 1.6-7
> mozilla-browser
> mozilla-mailnews
> mozilla-psm
> libnss3
> libnspr4
>
> Hmmmmm... It's still the same.
>
> works fine on Debian and Slashdot and crashes on Freshmeat.
Does the order in which you visit the sites matter, or does Freshmeat
explode even if you visit it first?
Well, my last wild guess would involve a potential conflict between mozilla
and the new gdk/gnome libs that have been rolled into sid recently. I'm
not sure what Freshmeat would be doing that Slashdot isn't though...
(loading a 'bad' advert maybe?) And, like you say, any systematic bug
should really be hitting more users...
Quite a puzzle.
-- Brad
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Brad Sawatzky <bds9e@virginia.edu>
University of Virginia Physics Department
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