Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade

[Towncat <towncat.towncat@gmail.com>]

On dec. 31, 00:30, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es>
wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:46:02 -0800, Towncat wrote:
> > As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded
> > it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since then:
>
> > towncat@murandy:~$ firefox
> > /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has
> > different size in shared object, consider re-linking
>
> I see this message as well (Sid, iceweasel 2.0.0.11-1), but my iceweasel
> seems to run normally otherwise. This is probably harmless.
>
> > (gecko:14849): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font,
> > expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Serif 12.798828125'
> > Segmentation fault
>
> Try this:
>
> $ export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO="true"
> $ iceweasel -safe-mode
>
> If it still does not work try the same from a pristine user account.
>
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Thanks, it did help. Actually, I didn't even need the -safe-mode
switch.

So what does (or does not, as the case is) pango do?

Tc.