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On Saturday 09 Jul 2011 02:49:55 Dale wrote: |
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> OK. Back to the original thread. |
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> Here we go again. Everything seems to work EXCEPT Firefox. When I log |
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> into KDE, I can run Seamonkey, Kpat, Konqueror, Konsole, gkrellm and |
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> such but as soon as I start Firefox, it locks up tight. Tight enough |
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> that the kernel panics and it resets since Neil informed me how to set |
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> that up. Thanks Neil! |
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> On Firefox, I have unmerged both nspluginwrapper & adobe-flash. Still |
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> does the same. I also tried the unstable version of Firefox 3 and even |
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> the unstable Firefox 4. I don't think it is Firefox itself but |
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> something that Firefox accesses or loads up. Keep in mind, when I |
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> upgraded Firefox it also pulled in new xulrunner packages as well. Is |
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> there anything else I should unmerge? Keep in mind, I can't open |
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> Firefox. Should I try to run Firefox as root to see if it locks up then |
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> too? |
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Personally I would not run FF as root. It should run as plain user and be |
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able to access all that it needs to do its job. What you haven't told us is |
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if you have tried the stable FF version 3.6.17 and if you are also getting the |
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same problems with the www-client/firefox-bin? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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