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Subject:    [gentoo-amd64] Re: firefox-bin "Save Link As..." does not work
From:       "Daiajo Tibdixious" <daiajo () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-06-19 23:38:08
Message-ID: a4a9bfcb0606191638mc75f7b3n4ddd806546f77c58 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 6/20/06, Conway S. Smith <beolach@comcast.net> wrote:
> Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
> > firefox-bin still refuses to save links, but no longer crashes, but
> > after some time idling, it eats all CPU and has to be kill -9'd.
> firefox-bin; if I tried to browse to a different folder to save in it
> triggered a crash, but if I saved in the folder it started in it would
> work.
I noticed that as well during the first episode, I haven't tried it as konquerer
works fine for saving files.

>  I don't use firefox-bin much, only for those (few) flash sites I
> want to see, so I didn't really care much about this problem.  Anyway, I
I think I might do the same.

> just tried it again now, and it actually works fine for me now.  Not
> sure why it works now, but one possibile cause that I found & fixed
> yesterday, is that there was an old libc-2.3.4 in /emul/linux/x86/lib
> that was being found before the libc-2.4 in /lib32.  "Equery belongs"
I have
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-glibc-2.3.5 (/emul/linux/x86/lib/libc-2.3.5.so)
sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r3 (/lib32/libc-2.3.6.so)
there are quite a few duplicates with differing versions over the 2 directories.
I believe firefox uses the /emul/linux/x86/lib ones, as when I removed them it
stopped working altogether.
One thing I forgot to mention is that revdep-rebuid always complains
about firefox-bin:

broken /usr/local/firefox/components/libmozgnome.so (requires
libxpcom.so libxpcom_core.so libplds4.so libplc4.so libnspr4.so
libgconf-2.so.4 libORBit-2.so.0 liblinc.so.1 libgnomevfs-2.so.0
libbonobo-activation.so.4 libgnome-2.so.0 libbonobo-2.so.0)

broken /usr/local/firefox/components/libnkgnomevfs.so (requires
libxpcom.so libxpcom_core.so libplds4.so libplc4.so libnspr4.so
libgnomevfs-2.so.0 libbonobo-activation.so.4 libORBit-2.so.0
liblinc.so.1)

it only wants to re-emerge mozilla-firefox-bin, which is pointless for
a binary package,
so I've been ignoring it (same messages from when firefox was working).

> showed the old libc wasn't owned by any installed ebuild, so I moved it,
> and that resolved the problems (unrelated to firefox-bin) that had
> revealed the stale /emul/linux/x86/lib files in the first place.  Not
> sure if that's actually what had been causing my firefox-bin crash or
> not, but I think it's a reasonable possibility.
>
> Hope you getting it working,

Duncan has me scared now. The disk is <6 months old, a 200G WD and its
winter now,
but I have no backup strategy, so I'll get that in order and then come
back to firefox.
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