What is this telling me?

Harry Giles hg57
Mon May 16 10:42:44 PDT 2005


Net Llama! wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2005, Harry Giles wrote:
>  On Sunday 15 May 2005 07:01 pm, David Bandel wrote:
> 
>>>On 5/15/05, Harry Giles <hg57 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>./firefox.sh
>>>>MozPlugger: Failed to execute m4.
>>>>MozPlugger: Failed to execute m4.
>>>
>>>Did you uninstall m4?
>>>
>>>
>>>>(Gecko:8550): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1579
>>>>(g_object_unref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
>>>>./firefox.sh: line 254:  8550 Segmentation fault      $MOZ_PROGRAM
>>>>$MOZ_LANG
>>>
>>>Not good.  The seg fault is probably related to the m4 failure above.
>>>Could be something in your users configuration or system-wide (like a
>>>hosed m4 executable).
>>>
>>
>>I reinstalled m4, and now it reads:
>>
>>(Gecko:11729): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1579
>>(g_object_unref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
>>/usr/bin/firefox: line 254: 11729 Segmentation fault      $MOZ_PROGRAM
>>$MOZ_LANG
>>(Gecko:11729): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1579
>>(g_object_unref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
>>/usr/bin/firefox: line 254: 11729 Segmentation fault      $MOZ_PROGRAM
>>$MOZ_LANG
>>
>>
>>Where to go from here?
> 
> 
> Are you using SuSE"s firefox RPM, or some other?  It looks like your glib
> support is broken (badly).
> 

It is the one from the Firefox site.  Should I uninstall, then reinstall 
Suse's?  If done via Yast, it will check the dependecies.

Harry G



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