Frequent Mozilla crashes with SuSE 8.0
Firstly, I hope this is not the wrong list. If it is, could someone be so kind as to gently point me towards the correct one. To the actual problem, - SuSE 8.0 (German version, installed in English) - essentially no KDE 2., I only really have KDE 3.0 and X11 4.2 installed. - processor: Via 866 with a newish Via motherboard (256M DDR266 Ram) - the original Mozilla version that comes with this release (the updated one comes up with a totally blank screen as in unusable for me. This itself is an indication that something is horribly wrong) The old Mozilla that came with 7.3 was pretty stable. The new one dies very frequently under a range of circumstances, some reproducible (certain websites). The new Netscape 6.x often dies before it has even finished loading, the old one was less stable than Mozilla was but nothing like this. The most recent abort was: /usr/X11/bin/mozilla: Line 72: 3578 Segmentation fault $prog {$1+"$@"} Now, I program mainframes and not this stuff. What does this mean (apart from the obvious)? Is something missing that should be installed and how do I find out? Thanks for your patience.
The mozilla that comes with suse8 isnt a great version, but new binaries are available. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/1.0rc1-20020504/8.0/ (of course a mirror would be better) has them. Ewan On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 11:13, Andrew Williams wrote:
Firstly, I hope this is not the wrong list. If it is, could someone be so kind as to gently point me towards the correct one.
To the actual problem, - SuSE 8.0 (German version, installed in English) - essentially no KDE 2., I only really have KDE 3.0 and X11 4.2 installed. - processor: Via 866 with a newish Via motherboard (256M DDR266 Ram) - the original Mozilla version that comes with this release (the updated one comes up with a totally blank screen as in unusable for me. This itself is an indication that something is horribly wrong)
The old Mozilla that came with 7.3 was pretty stable. The new one dies very frequently under a range of circumstances, some reproducible (certain websites). The new Netscape 6.x often dies before it has even finished loading, the old one was less stable than Mozilla was but nothing like this.
The most recent abort was: /usr/X11/bin/mozilla: Line 72: 3578 Segmentation fault $prog {$1+"$@"}
Now, I program mainframes and not this stuff. What does this mean (apart from the obvious)? Is something missing that should be installed and how do I find out?
Thanks for your patience.
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Ewan Leith wrote:
The mozilla that comes with suse8 isnt a great version, but new binaries are available.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/1.0rc1-20020504/8.0/ (of course a mirror would be better) has them.
Ewan
On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 11:13, Andrew Williams wrote:
To the actual problem, - SuSE 8.0 (German version, installed in English) - essentially no KDE 2., I only really have KDE 3.0 and X11 4.2 installed. - processor: Via 866 with a newish Via motherboard (256M DDR266 Ram) - the original Mozilla version that comes with this release (the updated one comes up with a totally blank screen as in unusable for me. This itself is an indication that something is horribly wrong)
The old Mozilla that came with 7.3 was pretty stable. The new one dies very frequently under a range of circumstances, some reproducible (certain websites). The new Netscape 6.x often dies before it has even finished loading, the old one was less stable than Mozilla was but nothing like this.
Thanks - my original try (installing the newest Red Hat RPMs from mozilla.org) produced a rock-solid mozilla for around 60 minutes. Then it died with a Segmentation Fault and nothing could wake it up. Around 100MB of kde+mozilla downloads later from my nearest mirror, all was fine. How do people manage without DSL?
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From: "Ewan Leith"
The mozilla that comes with suse8 isnt a great version, but new binaries are available.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/1.0rc1-20020504/8.0/ (of course a mirror would be better) has them.
Ewan
mozilla1.0rc2 is out. You can get it from www.mozilla.org or the german version from www.kairo.at Michael
On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 10:13, Andrew Williams wrote:
Firstly, I hope this is not the wrong list. If it is, could someone be so kind as to gently point me towards the correct one.
[snip SuSE-Mozilla woes] Not all of SuSE's packages are as up-to-date or as well-formed as might be preferred, or may simply be not configured to your tastes, so you may prefer to get them from the original sources. Applications on my list that I always install myself are: OpenOffice (instead of StarOffice), Apache, Tomcat, Java, VMWare and Mozilla. :-) (In SuSE 7.3 I'd add Nedit, XChat, XMMS and plugins, and sometimes the libraries upon which they depend, like smpeg, SDL etc., Gnumeric, GnuCash, Mosfet-Liquid, the *whole* of GNOME if I felt like playing with that - as I am today for instance - and a few other things besides I've forgotten right now - but so far in using SuSE 8.0, it's still just OpenOffice, Apache, Tomcat, Java, VMWare and Mozilla. In the case of Mozilla, SuSE do keep a little-publicised directory of more recent builds in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla. Why not in supplementary I don't know, but never mind... However, I find it more satisfactory to just download it from Mozilla.org (http://www.mozilla.org). That way you'll get the latest version (1.0RC2 came out today) which installs perfectly happily on SuSE 7.3 and 8.0 at least. Tips though: For multiuser installs, run the installer as root and select /usr/local/mozilla (the default) as an installation directory. They suggest running a little script shown in the release notes to make multi-user work properly, and I do so, but it seems barely necessary. Then I put the following into a script in /etc/profile.d: #!/bin/sh MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/mozilla if test -z "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ; then LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MOZILLA_HOME else LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MOZILLA_HOME:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi PATH=$MOZILLA_HOME:$PATH export MOZILLA_HOME PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH This, after you next log in, puts Mozilla into your path. This seems a simple solution to me, simpler than what SuSE do which is have their own fairly large launcher script in /usr/X11R6/bin. If you prefer, you can for instance replace /usr/local/mozilla with /opt/mozilla - I tend not to, because there might be some reason why I'd want the SuSE Mozilla installed *as well*, (if I want to try the SuSE-packaged Galeon/Nautilus etc.) and that'll go into /opt/mozilla. For single-user installs, install it into your home directory, ie: ~/mozilla. This is necessary if, for instance, you want to install enigmail (http://enigmail.mozdev.org) and include the above script instead in your own ~/.profile with MOZILLA_HOME=$HOME/mozilla. Once that's done, you can use the netscape plugins installed from suse by just symlinking the files in /opt/netscape/plugins into ...mozilla/plugins (except libnullplugin.so of which Mozilla has its own version). If you want Java support, symlink in the plugin supplied with modern JVMs. As I install Java 1.4.0, for me I just do: ln -s /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so . while inside the Mozilla plugins directory. Something similar should work with the 1.3.1 JVM installed with SuSE by default, but I haven't tried it (only has the Netscape 6.0 plugin not 6.1, not sure how important that is on Moz). -- Rachel
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