-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > I had a weird situation on my computer, which ended with a panic, and > during that firefox-bin would not save target files consistently, and > would actually crash. I'll detail this situation first, > in case its relevant. I run stable CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" > > Firstly rtorrent crashed with a segment fault. It restarted and worked. > The next day firefox-bin would not "save link as", I could navigate > to a directory, and on pushing "save" either nothing would happen or > firefox would crash. > > I emerged the latest mozilla-firefox-bin without any trouble, but > almost every package in world failed MD5 verification on the tarball. > <snip> > > 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. > > I'm getting by with Konqueror, however Google Mail is not very nice in > this browser. > So not a big problem, just worried that it might be symptomatic of > something serious.
Up until recently I've been seeing the same (or very similar; mine only ever crashed, never hung hogging CPU) problem downloading files in 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 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 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" 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, Conway S. Smith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFElwC+GL3AU+cCPDERAkeKAJ4l/HkCqR21C6AKppFAinPj7mDzlACfbW9U 6auhk/faHzchf1yfQe+SAeE= =ZoJR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
