On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:17:37 -0500 (CDT), James Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, JMS wrote: > > > It certainly shouldn't segfault - that's a pretty serious problem. What > > architecture is this on? > > > > You might try setting up a new user and seeing if it runs better then. > > Thanks for your reply, Jonathan. Someone contacted me offlist, saying > they'd had a similar problem and that running the program through strace > had revealed a fonts permission problem. I then ran Mozilla through > strace and, sure enough, right after a font permission problem is when the > segfault occurred. I had copied over some fonts from a Windows install, > and had not set proper permissions on them. Changing the fonts > permissions to the correct mode made the browser run pretty much normally. > So, the problem was resolved. Don't know why I never had these problems > on earlier versions of Mozilla: maybe they were more tolerant when > requested fonts were not available and defaulted to some other font with > the right permissions? Anyway, for anyone having this problem, strace is > a good way to find out where the problem area is. Adjusting font > permissions may well resolve it for you. >
I'd still file a bugreport over at mozilla.org. Something silly like this shouldn't break the browser... greets, Wim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
