Hi,

thunderbird and firefox are really unstable in SL5 at the moment.

I spent sometime to find out the difference between SL5 and RHEL5 in regard to firefox and thunderbird, but I 
haven't found anything.

My guess is that also on RHEL5 the problems are not yet fixed, see

Firefox: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432386
Thunderbird: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432702

At least for firefox it seems to be a gtk2 issue, see
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11589&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&start=20

Updating gtk2-2.10.4-19.el5 to gtk2-2.10.13-1.fc6 seem to fix some/most of the problems. However this is not 
an option if you want to stay with RHEL5. Nevertheless I will try to update gtk2.

At the moment it's really frustrating.

	Urs







Troy Dawson wrote:
 > Hi,
 > This is the output of the same ldd command you gave, on a RHEL 4 32 bit
 > machine.  As far as I can see they are the same other than the hex
 > number at the end.
 >
 > # rpm -qi firefox
 > Name        : firefox                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
 > Version     : 1.5.0.12                          Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
 > Release     : 0.10.el4                      Build Date: Fri 01 Feb 2008
 > 07:51:56 AM CST
 > Install Date: Tue 04 Mar 2008 01:16:12 PM CST      Build Host:
 > hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com
 > Group       : Applications/Internet         Source RPM:
 > firefox-1.5.0.12-0.10.el4.src.rpm
 > Size        : 31919449                         License: MPL/LGPL
 > Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 04 Feb 2008 01:28:04 PM CST, Key ID
 > 219180cddb42a60e
 > Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
 > URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
 > Summary     : Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
 > Description :
 > Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
 > compliance, performance and portability.
 >
 > I have no idea how stable this RHEL firefox it, because I don't use the
 > machine for web browsing.  I can point it at a URL or two if there are
 > specific web pages that usually crash your firefox.
 >
 > Troy
 >
 > Alex Owen wrote:
 >> Attached is the output from "ldd /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/firefox-bin"
 >> and "rpm -q -a" made on an SL4.5 machine where firefox keeps crashing.
 >>
 >> I am highly motivated to help solve this problem ASAP!
 >> (My boss likes firefox to work apparently!)
 >>
 >> I do not have access to RHEL4 machine to check versions of libraries
 >> etc... perhaps someone else can help ?
 >>
 >> Regards
 >> Alex Owen
 >>
 >>
 >
 >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >>>
 >>>     libmozjs.so => not found
 >>>     libxpcom.so => not found
 >>>     libxpcom_core.so => not found
 >>>     libplds4.so => /usr/lib/libplds4.so (0x006d6000)
 >>>     libplc4.so => /usr/lib/libplc4.so (0x006d0000)
 >>>     libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/libnspr4.so (0x00a09000)
 >>>     libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x005c4000)
 >>>     libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x004bb000)
 >>>     libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x03a21000)
 >>>     libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00920000)
 >>>     libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x00c83000)
 >>>     libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
 >>> (0x008ca000)
 >>>     libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x005f2000)
 >>>     libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x005b4000)
 >>>     libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00c4b000)
 >>>     libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00875000)
 >>>     libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00870000)
 >>>     libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00706000)
 >>>     libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x004c1000)
 >>>     libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00496000)
 >>>     libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00783000)
 >>>     libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x006fa000)
 >>>     libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00368000)
 >>>     /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0034e000)
 >>>     libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00dc2000)
 >>>     libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x00692000)
 >>>     libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x00d99000)
 >>>     libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x006bc000)
 >>>     libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x005fd000)
 >>>     libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x0066a000)
 >>>     libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x001e0000)
 >>>     libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x00d8f000)
 >>>     libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00d74000)
 >>>     libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x008f8000)
 >>>     libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x0069c000)
 >>>     libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x005a2000)
 >>>
 >
 >
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > 	libmozjs.so => not found
 > 	libxpcom.so => not found
 > 	libxpcom_core.so => not found
 > 	libplds4.so => /usr/lib/libplds4.so (0x00107000)
 > 	libplc4.so => /usr/lib/libplc4.so (0x00101000)
 > 	libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/libnspr4.so (0x03fbf000)
 > 	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x004fd000)
 > 	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x003f4000)
 > 	libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x0091d000)
 > 	libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x008af000)
 > 	libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x00826000)
 > 	libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x00805000)
 > 	libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x0087a000)
 > 	libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x005ce000)
 > 	libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00842000)
 > 	libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x007af000)
 > 	libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x007aa000)
 > 	libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x0061f000)
 > 	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x003fa000)
 > 	libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x003cf000)
 > 	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x006dd000)
 > 	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0069c000)
 > 	libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x002a1000)
 > 	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00283000)
 > 	libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x005a8000)
 > 	libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x0081c000)
 > 	libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x005a3000)
 > 	libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x00606000)
 > 	libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00536000)
 > 	libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x005de000)
 > 	libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x0052a000)
 > 	libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x00520000)
 > 	libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x004db000)
 > 	libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00887000)
 > 	libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x005ad000)
 > 	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x004eb000)