Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:02 AM, András Csányi <sayusi.ando@×××××.com>wrote:

> On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András
> > Csányi did opine thusly:
> >
> >> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> > Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less
> >> > stable.
> >> >
> >> > I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons
> (xmarks,
> >> > AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing.  Seg fault
> >> > sometimes.  I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does
> >> > not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla)  and re-emerge.
> >> > Grrrrrr.
> >>
> >> Use Chrome/Chromium. At my gentoo the fox won't even start. I don't
> >> know why, I won't to know why... I'm tired about Firefox. :S
> >
> >
> > If you run Firefox from a terminal, do you get an error about xpcom?
> >
> > If so, you need revdep-rebuild and possibly re-merge nss.
> > It's all in the build elogs.
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I have tried to start from terminal, but no message. I have tried to
> run after revdep-rebuild but nothing. I have installed binary version
> but the result was the same.
> After these I have tried strace and if I remenber correctly it stopped
> with segmentation fault. Unfortunately I can't reproduce this problem
> because few days ago I changed my system from 32 bit to 64 bit. Here
> everything is working fine according firefox.
>
>  I know I should have report it but, that time, I was really tired
> emotionally. :(
>

Yeah, me too.  I teach at a university and classes start tomorrow. I've had
the fox not starting as someone else did, then on upgrade it was sort of
working, then not.  The last bug I submitted led to the instruction to start
with a clean profile.  Sounds sensible, but that means none of my bookmarks,
ad blocks, noscript, cookies or anything.  I tried it anyway with 3.6.9 and
Xmarks only (really need those bookmarks).  It died before I could get near
to the original problem.  That's when I started this thread.  I've got other
more urgent things to do with my time.

Like my laptop's Ubuntu which suddenly decided it didn't know anything about
its network adapters, and I could not figure out the config tools that seem
to want me to know the MAC address of all that stuff.  No clue, don't know
how to find out, but at least I can back up my home directories.  But I need
this thing for class _tomorrow_ and I've got a lot of stuff to print and get
on the web -- these things have cost me about a week.

I'm writing this on Opera.  I'll try chrome if it's easy to figure out.  I
don't expect to see the fox on gentoo again any time soon.  I'm sad because
I used to like it.  Good luck.

++ kevin

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD