| Summary: | Despite reinstalling several times, Firefox still doesn't work | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Bill Dumke <bill> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad> |
| Status: | RESOLVED OLD | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | critical | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | marja11, nic, thierry.vignaud |
| Version: | 5 | Keywords: | NEEDINFO |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1075079 | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Source RPM: | firefox | CVE: | |
| Status comment: | |||
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Description
Bill Dumke
2016-02-29 12:10:55 CET
Bill Dumke
2016-03-01 05:46:03 CET
Component:
RPM Packages =>
Installer (In reply to Bill Dumke from comment #0) > [root@localhost ~]# firefox -v > > (process:3990): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion > 'sys_page_size == 0' failed > Mozilla Firefox 31.7.0 > [root@localhost ~]# See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1075079 Please try whether moving your .mozilla to .mozillaOLD before starting Firefox, fixes the issue. Keywords:
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UPSTREAM *** Bug 17844 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Side note: in bug 17844 Bill told that he still had this problem after updating Firefox. @ Bill Please give the output of: rpm -qa | grep firefox Hi Bill I am trying to reproduce this report and I don't understand the issue. Are you concerned about the message 'GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed' If so there are many bugs reports about this, here are 2: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1075079 It seems to affect both Firefox and Thunderbird and there appears to be no agreement that it is a bug. Some suggest it is an information message that does not need fixing. In any case I don't think we have any chance of fixing this. CC:
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nic Op 02-03-16 om 03:33 schreef Bill Dumke:
>
> My e-mails are bouncing to the bug list, so I am sending this directly
> to you.
>
> [billspiro@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep firefox
> firefox-en-ZA-38.6.1-1.mga5
> firefox-en-GB-38.6.1-1.mga5
> firefox-38.6.1-1.mga5
> [billspiro@localhost ~]$
>
Hi Bill,
It is impossible to reply to the Bugzilla mailing list, but only possible to reply in the Bug Report itself. Please do that next time ;-)
When reading Nic's reply, I became aware that I had _assumed_ that you ran "firefox -v" because you couldn't successfully start firefox. However, you never said that.
Does Firefox start fine and is this indeed only about the error message?
Pasting Bill's e-mail reply. If he can't use Firefox, then it is hard to reply in Bugzilla Op 02-03-16 om 10:45 schreef Bill Dumke: > The reason why I submitted the firefox -v result to the bug list is > that I was having a lot of trouble getting Firefox to work at all. I > reinstalled I would guess about 5 times. That is a serious problem > Since then I found that my > install DVD was corrupted. I created a new install disk and now things > work better. But I still get weird error messages that only appear for > very short periods of time, and so are for the most part unreadable. > Some at boot up and some at installation of different programs and > Firefox add-ons. The Firefox add-ons messages can be related, for any other problems: please ask for help in the forums https://forums.mageia.org/en/ > The installation is on a 30GB USB stick. I don't have > my e-mail setup yet on the USB stick, so I have had to hand copy the > test results to Windows 7 Thunderbird , which has been difficult and > time consuming. This has all been very frustrating and time consuming to > me. Sorry to read that. > And now you are telling me this is a non-problem??? Why didn't > you say that to start with? I'm not sure I understand. I only know there's been confusion about whether your report implied that you could not use Firefox, which you didn't tell us before, or only about an error message while Firefox worked fine. It seems you missed the request in Comment 1 to move .mozilla to .mozillaOLD and then start Firefox, to see whether it fixes the problem. You can do that by opening a terminal/konsole, making sure you're in your personal /home directory by typing cd ~ and then typing: mv .mozilla .mozillaOLD Regards, Marja
Thierry Vignaud
2016-06-17 11:56:35 CEST
CC:
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thierry.vignaud (In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #6) > Pasting Bill's e-mail reply. If he can't use Firefox, then it is hard to > reply in Bugzilla > > > Op 02-03-16 om 10:45 schreef Bill Dumke: > > The reason why I submitted the firefox -v result to the bug list is > > that I was having a lot of trouble getting Firefox to work at all. I > > reinstalled I would guess about 5 times. > Changing the summary of this report accordingly > > It seems you missed the request in Comment 1 to move .mozilla to .mozillaOLD > and then start Firefox, to see whether it fixes the problem. > > You can do that by opening a terminal/konsole, making sure you're in your > personal /home directory by typing > > cd ~ > > and then typing: > > mv .mozilla .mozillaOLD > > Did that help, does firefox work now, Bill? Summary:
Firefox -v error after Mageia installation on USB =>
Despite reinstalling several times, Firefox still doesn't work Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as OLD. Resolution:
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