Darryl, On Tuesday 22 February 2005 13:00, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone else who is using Mozilla 1.7.5 been experiencing segmentation faults? The overt symptom is simply that Mozilla disappears. Depending on how you launch it (I use a desktop icon that I created manually to target a "manual" tarball-based installation of Mozilla), there will be a line in you ~/.xsession-errors file like this one:
/usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 15270 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
Actually, it's been doing this at least since 1.4.1, which is the version I am currently running in 9.0. It's also locking up on a seemingly random basis, requiring a "killall -KILL ..." to get rid of it.
I haven't encountered a seg fault entry in the X error file in quite some time, but mozilla is still crashing, regularly, frequently (which I define as once a day or more), and unpredictably. I also never did notice any relation between how mozilla was launched, and the presence/absence of such a line, though that doesn't mean there isn't one.
I just meant that there are ways to launch Mozilla that do not direct its standard error to ~/.xsession-error. If KDE does the launching, then unless the program itself redirects its standard out or error, it will end up there. But it's easy to get around this: % mozilla 2>/dev/null is the most trivial example.
FYI, $prog is always $MOZILLA_HOME/mozilla-bin.
Probably, but what I quoted was excerpted from my ~/.xsession-errors file. That's what you'll see there, so that's what I put in my mail.
I doubt this is a KDE problem, or indeed a problem anywhere but in mozilla.
Of course. I never suggested otherwise.
Did you compile with Talkback enabled? I'm running the SuSE-supplied version; they always seem to compile with Talkback disabled, so me reporting anything to mozilla.org isn't going to help.
As I said, I acquired the installation tarball from the Mozilla.org site. I did not compile it myself. Randall Schulz