Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Archaic wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:44:24PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> A step on the way to tracking repeatable segfaults is to install gdb (a >>straight configure, make, make install), then something like >> >>gdb firefox >>at the prompt, 'run', >>then when it segfaults 'bt' to get a b

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Information on Install-Log can be found here: http://install-log.sourceforge.net/ The whole discussion makes this sound like a great tool, especially for a minimal Linux system like LFS. Does anyone know if there is an nALFS profile that integrates install-log? I

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Dan McGhee skrev: Kristian, where can I find more info on install-log? Thank you both for the help and the thought-provoking input. Regards, Dan Hi Dan. Information on Install-Log can be found here: http://install-log.sourceforge.net/ Kind Regards, Kristian Thank you

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Dan McGhee skrev: Kristian, where can I find more info on install-log? Thank you both for the help and the thought-provoking input. Regards, Dan Hi Dan. Information on Install-Log can be found here: http://install-log.sourceforge.net/ Kind Regards, Kristian -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/

SOLVED: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

The problem was apparently the way that fontconfig was installed. I re-installed it as root, not a package-user, and both Thunderbird and Firefox ran without a hitch. In fact, I'm in my new, shiny BLFS build now. I would, however, like to continue the discussion about tracking installed files

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Dan McGhee wrote: I don't know if you'd call this security or not, but the un{,der}privileged users in this case are grand kids. I discovered the hard way that little fingers can do great things to boxes of all sorts. :) My experience with my kids has been that the power of root is a wonderful

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:44:24PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > A step on the way to tracking repeatable segfaults is to install gdb (a > straight configure, make, make install), then something like > > gdb firefox > at the prompt, 'run', > then when it segfaults 'bt' to get a back trace You kn

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Randy McMurchy skrev: Dan McGhee wrote these words on 04/29/05 14:55 CST: There's a general synopsis of it in the "Package Management" section of BLFS 6.0. and there's a complete run-down in the hint "More Control and Mackage Management using Package Users." T

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Randy McMurchy skrev: Dan McGhee wrote these words on 04/29/05 14:55 CST: There's a general synopsis of it in the "Package Management" section of BLFS 6.0. and there's a complete run-down in the hint "More Control and Mackage Management using Package Users." This is what I wanted to avoi

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Randy McMurchy wrote: Dan McGhee wrote these words on 04/29/05 14:55 CST: For example, shadow wants to install su, chage, chfn,chsh, expiry, gpasswd, newgrp and passwd as SUID. I chose only su. Bummer. And just exactly how does the unprivileged user change his password? Is it a security t

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Dan McGhee wrote these words on 04/29/05 14:55 CST: > For example, shadow wants to install > su, chage, chfn,chsh, expiry, gpasswd, newgrp and passwd as SUID. I > chose only su. Bummer. And just exactly how does the unprivileged user change his password? Is it a security thing why you don't wa

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Dan McGhee wrote these words on 04/29/05 14:55 CST: > There's a general synopsis of it in the "Package Management" section of > BLFS 6.0. and there's a complete run-down in the hint "More Control and > Mackage Management using Package Users." This is what I wanted to avoid. :-) I have no inter

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Dan McGhee wrote: > > Number one I don't know how to track down segmentations faults. The > only thing that I can say here is that both applications built and > installed without errors. A step on the way to tracking repeatable segfaults is to install gdb (a straight config

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Randy McMurchy wrote: Dan McGhee wrote these words on 04/29/05 13:53 CST: Number one I don't know how to track down segmentations faults. The only thing that I can say here is that both applications built and installed without errors. Just to see if I could, since BLFS 6.0 doesn't indicate tha

Re: Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Dan McGhee wrote these words on 04/29/05 13:53 CST: > Number one I don't know how to track down segmentations faults. The > only thing that I can say here is that both applications built and > installed without errors. Just to see if I could, since BLFS 6.0 > doesn't indicate that X is a require

Both Thunderbird and Firefox Throw Segmentation Faults

Obviously I'm trying to get Firefox and Thunderbird running. I'm using Xorg and fluxbox. Each application throws a similar message when I try to start it using xterm: nsExtensionManager::disableObsoleteExtensions -failure, catching extension so finalize window can close /usr/lib/{thu