What is this telling me?

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Harry Giles wrote:

> 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.

At this point, i'd suggest testing the oficial SuSE version.  That will at
least shed some light on whether your OS is broken, or if the official
firefox builds just aren't compatible with SuSE.

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