On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:41:41PM +0100, E Taylor wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 6.0.2-1 > > I run testing/wheezy and upgraded to iceweasel 6.0.2 this weekend, > closing my running copy of iceweasel first. When I tried to load it > again, it got as far as loading all the windows and showing all of > the tabs, but before the pages had finished loading it crashed. > Upon reopening iceweasel, I was presented with the "Restore session" > page and could browse normally by opening new tabs, but when I told > it to restore my existing session, it crashed again at the same > point. I tried loading the session with images and JavaScript > turned off, and in safe mode, but nothing worked. > > Eventually I tried loading iceweasel from the command line and found > this message printed there: > > /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error: > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so: undefined symbol: > gconf_client_get_default > > By doing a web search for this, I found that users of another distro > had encountered the same problem: > > http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/429956-mozilla-firefox-seamonkey-unstable.html > > The suggested work around was to uninstall the package > gecko-mediaplayer and I did this, which fixed the problem. (When I > went to re-enable some of my settings, though, I experienced another > crash which turned out to be Debian bug 626076 but the work around > in comment #5 worked: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626076#5 > > and now I am using the browser normally). > > I'm guessing that the iceweasel package should at least be marked as > conflicting with the gecko-mediaplayer package, unless this can be > resolved some other way.
Surely, the gecko-mediaplayer issue is transient, so there's no point for iceweasel to conflict with it, but the gecko-mediaplayer issue does need to be fixed. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
