Hi Folks, I've been noticing a tendency for my Firefox-1.0 to segfault when accessing certain sites. It may not be Firefox of course, but a possible (e.g.) RAM weakness or something else hardware related. The message to the terminal is always run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 2894 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"} which is a line in the startup-script. One site which seems to trigger it every time is http://www.shop.bt.com If anyone else would like to try this and report results, I'd be obliged. With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 17-May-06 Time: 13:53:05 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:53:08PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
I've been noticing a tendency for my Firefox-1.0 to segfault when accessing certain sites.
Firefox 1.5 has been out for some time now, I'd suggest upgrading to that and seeing if the problem persists (and it's probably a good idea anyway, seeing as a lot of extensions no longer work in 1.0). Paul
Hi Ted On Wednesday 17 May 2006 13:53, Ted Harding wrote:
One site which seems to trigger it every time is
If anyone else would like to try this and report results, I'd be obliged.
mozilla-firefox (ver: 1.0.4-2sarge7) bombs out as soon as the page starts to load. Using firefox (ver: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0) on my iMac, the front page comes up without any problem. I do recall hearing bug reports about mozzilla & firefox segfaulting in a seemingly random pattern and of a bug fix applied to later builds. It may be worth your while using firefox from www.backports.org where you will find firefox-1.5 Regards, Paul.
(Ted Harding) wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've been noticing a tendency for my Firefox-1.0 to segfault when accessing certain sites.
[SNIP] Playing Devil's Advocate, the first thing any support person says to a request like that is: have you installed the latest version (1.5.0.3)? I recommend you do that (if for no other reason than the security fixes) and see what happens. Cheers, Laurie. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com --------------------------------------------------------------------
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