I recently took the painful time to download Mozilla 0.9.7 onto my Linux machine which previously had had an earlier version on using an "Update Agent" provided by the distro (in this case Red Hat). After loading and updating the packages (which went fine apparently), the mozilla links and event he executable from both command line and icons just falls flat! The error is: Segmentation Fault When running: /usr/bin/mozilla or: mozilla Any ideas as to what may be the problem? I've tried rebuilding the RPM database etc, and that hasn't worked. Would it be worth reloading Mozilla or is this a permanent fixture now? Thanks in advance! Paul
Hi Paul (again :-), As you're no doubt aware, Mozilla is still in the days of development, but even so, I have had no problems with running the 0.9.7 version. A Segmentation fault, usually indicates that there is not enough memory to run your application, and thus the program "core" dumps (assuming that your umask value is not set to 000). How much free memory have you got?? Thus: free I'd also recommend you flush your buffer too: sync My first inclination would be to run the "strace" command on the mozilla binary, to see exactly where the program is producing the "seg fault". I seem to remember that the "/usr/bin/mozilla" file is a shell-script. Just check that it isn't (since you cannot run "strace" on a shell script....type: file /usr/bin/mozilla ). If it is a shell script, take a look at the file, and find the location of the binary. Then to log the strace output, type: strace -vfo /log_output.txt /usr/bin/mozilla *Hopefully* You should then get a nice file (and screen) full of commands. If you send that file to me, I can then help debug why you might be getting that error message (I help develop Mozilla). HTH, Thomas Adam --- Paul Munro <paul.munro1@btinternet.com> wrote: > I recently took the painful time to download Mozilla
0.9.7 onto my Linux machine which previously had had an earlier version on using an "Update Agent" provided by the distro (in this case Red Hat). After loading and updating the packages (which went fine apparently), the mozilla links and event he executable from both command line and icons just falls flat! The error is:
Segmentation Fault
When running:
/usr/bin/mozilla
or:
mozilla
Any ideas as to what may be the problem? I've tried rebuilding the RPM database etc, and that hasn't worked. Would it be worth reloading Mozilla or is this a permanent fixture now?
Thanks in advance!
Paul
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I used to have this problem all the time. Now Mozilla is my default browser and email client. My two top tips for getting Mozilla to run stably are: 1. Download and use the provided installer program rather than any rpms 2. Once you've installed and run this (so that it pulls down the rest of the package), run your new Mozilla once as root (ouch!) first If you are going to do step one anyway, you might as well get one of the 0.9.8 builds---out now! Quoting Paul Munro <paul.munro1@btinternet.com>:
I recently took the painful time to download Mozilla 0.9.7 onto my Linux
machine which previously had had an earlier version on using an "Update Agent" provided by the distro (in this case Red Hat). After loading and updating the packages (which went fine apparently), the mozilla links and event he executable from both command line and icons just falls flat! The error is:
Segmentation Fault
When running:
/usr/bin/mozilla
or:
mozilla
Any ideas as to what may be the problem? I've tried rebuilding the RPM database etc, and that hasn't worked. Would it be worth reloading Mozilla or is this a permanent fixture now?
Thanks in advance!
Paul
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