Has Firefox suddenly stopped working for you folk?

[Bill Oliver]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 03/05/14 07:42, Bill Oliver wrote:
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>> I just did one of those 1000-pending updates on my Fedora 20 installation, and suddenly Firefox is no longer working.  It worked fine before.  When I run it from console, I see the error:
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>> (process:13166): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
>>
>>
>> This happens both with the installed firefox using yum, as well as when I remove firefox and download the binary from mozilla.com.
>>
>> A search on the internet suggests that the error message was benign and not related to the problem when it popped up in an ubuntu forum a couple of months ago.
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>> Does anybody know if this is a common problem?
>>
>
> Working fine here....
>
> firefox-27.0.1-1.fc20.x86_64
>
> I do get.....
>
> (process:15176): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
> (firefox:15176): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised
> (firefox:15176): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised
> (firefox:15176): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised
> (firefox:15176): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised
>
> When starting from console, so that error message seems unimportant....
>
>

Are you running Gnome or KDE?   I'm running the KDE scientific spin...


billo