> Changing profiles is a very general > diagnostic step, not specific to segfaults, and to my knowledge, we have > seen no cases where changing profiles solved a segfault.
OK, so it was just a lucky hunch that made you suggest that I should change profiles. Still, why not put it out there? You now have seen one case where it helps. (Before I deleted the profile, conkeror wouldn't even get started, whereas now I know the problem is outside conkeror, since it fails in exactly the same way as firefox.) > It sounds like something is corrupted somewhere. Reinstall > everything, try different versions of xulrunner (or firefox). That's what I did all day yesterday (see my original message, copied below). Today I also reinstalled firefox. Not sure what else would be covered under "everything". Thanks in any case. I'll post again if I figure it out. Silvio To: [email protected] Subject: Segmentation fault cc: [email protected] From: Silvio Levy <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:59:47 -0700 Sender: [email protected] So last night I inadvertently left my laptop unplugged and it shut down when the battery ran low. This morning I rebooted it and conkeror wouldn't run. More precisely, xulrunner /usr/local/src/conkeror/application.ini causes a Segmentation fault without any other messages. I've tried a lot of things during the course of the day, but no matter what I do, I still get the Segmentation fault. Here's what I tried: 1) Upgrading Conkeror, via cd /usr/local/src/conkeror; git fetch; git merge origin 2) upgrading Ubuntu (from 10.04 to 11.04 in two steps, via sudo do-release-upgrade) 3) Upgrading xulrunner, via sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xulrunner-2.0 xulrunner-2.0-dev xulrunner-2.0-gnome-support xulrunner-dev (The installed version is now Mozilla XULRunner 2.0 - 20110402003021 ) 4) Replacing Conkeror altogether, via rm -f -r /usr/local/src/conkeror; git clone git://repo.or.cz/conkeror.git 5) According to http://conkeror.org/InstallationDebian, "The easiest way to use Conkeror [under Ubuntu 11:04] is to add the PPA at https://launchpad.net/~xtaran/+archive/conkeror: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xtaran/conkeror" The page doesn't say what to next -- I assumed it would be "sudo apt-get install conkeror" but this replies with E: Unable to locate package conkeror Any ideas, either for identifying the cause of the Segmentation fault or for installing a fresh conkeror? Thanks, Silvio _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
