Problems with XULrunner and Firefox 17.0 on RH5.6?
Is anyone else having problems with XULrunner and Firefox 17.0 on RH5.6?
Ever since RH put out the announcement that they had to go to FF17.0 to fix a vulnerabililty, it has broken xulrunner and ff for me.
Symptom:
After upgrade, clicking on FF icon causes the kernel to dump me back to the login screen.
Fix:
So far, I can only downgrade back to xulrunner 10.0.12 and ff 10.0.12 to get firefox to work.
Suggestions?
Responses
Hi Raymond, how are you?
Without the dump we only can have some suggestions but not complete sure about this incident.
- Do you have some Add-ons installed in this Firefox?
- You always face the problem when open the Firefox 17 or it is one or other time?
- Did you update the entire system to the last version or only the FF?
Can you please try to update it again and before running the FF, try to move .mozilla directory from your home to a safe place?
1 - Update the FF and the xulrunner
2 - move /home/<user>/.mozilla /root
3 - Run the FF 17
Let us know.
Regards,
Anderson Kaiser
Hi Raymond,
You told me you are running it as root. Do you have the same sympton when run it as normal user?
Can you please try to run it in safe mode using a terminal?
As root:
# firefox -safe-mode
As normal user:
$ firefox -safe-mode
Running it in a Terminal it will show you the error messages and algo any other issue.
Please let me know about the result and also the output from the both commands above.
Cheers
Anderson Kaiser
Ray,
Seems to be related with GDM not Firefox itself.
Are you using any video modules in this box? I mean, some NVidia or any other video drivers instead the built-in kernel modules from Red Hat?
Can you please set the Driver option in your "Device" Section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as follow:
Driver "vesa"
In my box:
<snip>
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection
</snip>
And then restart the machine?
You can also try to set the following parameter in [servers] section of /etc/gdm/custom.conf
0=Standard vt7Restar the machine again.
Let me know.
Regards,
Anderson Kaiser
<snip>
What does 0=standard vt7 do to my high resolution video cards?
</snip>
It will set gdm toopen all threads or process under a especific tty, in this case tty7.
In mostly cases gdm uses a randon tty search to open sub-process and other threads if available.
Regards,
Anderson Kaiser
Ray,
I am glad to hear from you that now you have no more problem in your machine.
I was looking in the Mozilla Forum also in the link you sent and seems to be a problem related with one function() called and how the NVidia answer the request.
Thank you for your patience and for using our Red Hat Groups community.
Best Regrads,
Anderson Kaiser
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