On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:34:02PM +0100, David Ramsden wrote:
> David Ramsden wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> > Can maybe other people try to mv /usr/share/mime/mime.cache out of the
> > way and see if it fixes the problem? Does anyone know how to "rebuild"
> > this file in case it is corruption (although I doubt it is)?
> 
> OK, so it's not that mime.cache is "corrupt". If you mv it out of the
> way and then "dpkg-reconfigure shared-mime-info" it will recreate the
> file. After doing this, firefox still exits with a SIGBUS.
> 
> For some reason the Debian build of firefox simply can't handle
> /usr/share/mime/mime.cache.
> 
> With mime.cache mv'd out of the way, I can confirm that the following
> will work again:
>       * File -> Open
>       * File -> Save Page As
>       * Right click an image and Save as.
>       * Browse for a file via a HTML form.
>       * ...probably anything else mentioned in this bug report.
Does it also work (with mime.cache existing) if you start firefox with
  FIREFOX_DSP=none firefox
?


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