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)