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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Richard Alexander Owen Physicist/Programmer Queen Mary, University of London Tel: 0207 882 5054 Physics Department Email: [log in to unmask] 327 Mile End Road London E1 4NS, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Urs Beyerle wrote: > Jon Peatfield wrote: >> Today while checking something else I noticed that on the 15th TUV released >> 'firefox stability update' and 'thunderbird stability update' packages. >> >> Reading the announcements (and bugzilla entries) I see the following >> statements: >> >> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0147.html >> >> A stability bug was found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Firefox >> packages released in RHSA-2008:0103. These packages were linked against >> an incorrect version of a library which would cause Firefox to randomly >> crash while the browser was in use. >> >> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0148.html >> >> A stability bug was found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Thunderbird >> packages released in RHSA-2008:0105. These packages were linked against >> an incorrect version of a library which would cause Thunderbird to >> randomly crash while in use. >> >> Now in both cases the updated srpm includes an additional patch but no >> *obvious* changes to the libraries that the code will link against. >> >> The only explanation I have managed to come up with is that they have >> changed their build-environment in some way - different default packages in >> their brewbuilder setup perhaps. Does this seem at all likely? >> >> Does anyone have a better explanation of what the incorrect-library linking >> issue might actually be? >> >> Now we have users complaining (some quite bitterly) about random crashes of >> both firefox and thunderbird and this *seems* to have got noticably worse >> about 2 months ago - at least judging by the number of reports we get via >> our help-desk. Personally I've not seen any problems but then I mostly >> still use the seamonkey on SL3x and don't touch tbird except to check that >> it runs :-) >> >> Anyway tomorrow I'm going to try building ffox/tbird from the updated srpms >> in the hope that either my rpm build-environment (I've not got anything >> fancy yet) is good-enough or the extra patches help in some way. >> > > We have also a lot of complains since a few weeks here. I observed many > crashes of firefox and thunderbird recently on my system. It would be nice, > if somebody could compare firefox/thunderbird rebuild from srpms with these > "new" firefox/thunderbird running on a RHEL5 system. >