Mozilla crashes frequently after upgrading from RH9 to FC1

[Didier Casse]

On 09/02/04, at 00:48 -0600, Mike Klinke <lsomike at futzin.com> wrote:

> On Monday 09 February 2004 00:27, Didier Casse wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I just upgraded my whole system from RH9->FC1. I notice that
> > Mozilla crashes on entering some websites:
> >
> > e.g website www.rasterman.com
> >
> > I can't enter at all on this website. when I type the url in, as
> > soon as it loads the website mozilla crashes w/ no error messages
> > at all.
>  
> No problem here with this site and I'm running the same version of 
> mozilla as you are (upgraded from RH9 too) but I did run into a font 
> problem with the previous version of mozilla giving similar symptoms 
> and fiddled with my font directories as detailed here (just for 
> reference)
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109537
> 
> You can run 'strace mozilla' from a command line and perhaps you can 
> see what is failing.

Dear Mike,
           Thanks for the tip. I guess you guessed correctly. From my
output below, it seems that mozilla crashes because of this Japanese font
problems. Again many thanks. :-)

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lseek(18, 20480, SEEK_SET)              = 20480
write(18, "body {\n background-image: url(\"i"..., 3072) = 3072
gettimeofday({1076310901, 303361}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1076310901, 307027}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1076310901, 307622}, NULL) = 0
stat64("/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties",
0xbfefd59c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat64("/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties",
{st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=67, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/res/fonts/fontEncoding.properties",
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType/kochi-mincho.ttf", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType/kochi-mincho.ttf", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
unlink("/home/didier/.mozilla/default/8wk1k1zm.slt/lock") = 0
exit_group(11)                          = ?

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With kind regards,

Didier.

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