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[John Ellson]

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Stephen J. Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Have you done the usual Technical Support questions?
>>     
>
> I believe so.  I have cleaned out all my extensions - actually, I even
> created a new, clean account with no configuration at all.  Same thing.
>
>   
>> Does a second user on the system have the same problem? [Creating a
>> second user and going to the website cause firefox to crap out on
>> x86-64?]
>>     
>
> Yes.
>
>   
>> Does the box have anything non-64 bit installed like flash like
>> plugins?
>>     
>
> Nope, none of that stuff.
>
> There was a question of what appears in /var/log/messages; there's one
> line:
>
> Jan  5 08:24:14 bike kernel: firefox-bin[17558] trap int3 rip:348d72c237 rsp:7fffff874f40 error:0
>   
Can you get any more clues about where it is dying by running it under 
strace with:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/firefox-1.5 strace 
/usr/lib64/firefox-1.5/firefox-bin

> I'll note that, as usual, I'm running a kernel.org kernel, but
> everything else on the system is plain rawhide.  I'm a day or two behind
> on updates, since yum gripes about a libgtop dependency in
> gnome-applets. 
>   
You can get past this by parallel installing both versions of libgtop:

    rpm -ivh libgtop2-2.13.2-1.x86_64.rpm
> Thanks,
>
> jon
>
> Jonathan Corbet
> Executive editor, LWN.net
> corbet at lwn.net
>
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