Re: [SLE] firefox suddenly doesn't work

From: Patrick John Hays (public_at_elbubba.com)
Date: 07/25/05

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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:41:45 -0400

    On Mon July 25 2005 2:19 pm, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
    > On Monday 25 July 2005 13:35, Patrick John Hays wrote:
    > > firefox has abruptly quit working for me after months w/o problems.
    >
    > <snip>
    >
    > > > Could someone give me a nudge in the right direction to fix this?
    >
    > Hi Patrick,
    >
    > If I hadn't done anything to alter my installed programs or libraries and I
    > encountered an "abrupt" error like that, my first inclination would be to
    > boot into rescue mode and verify that my file system hadn't become
    > corrupted. Who knows? Could be a stray neutrino or something like that,
    > right? :-)
    >
    > Also, you didn't mention /how/ you did these installations, but if you're
    > running rpm on the command line, don't forget to run SuSEconfig and
    > ldconfig afterwards or you'll have similar kinds of problems (spoken from
    > experience.)
    >
    > Good luck & regards,
    >
    > - Carl
    >
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    While scanning through old postings to this list about firefox problems I came
    across someone whose symptoms were different but who was able to solve it by
    reinstalling gtk-qt-engine. Just for grins I tried it and guess what;
    problem seems to be all gone. I only wish I knew why...

    Patrick 

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