[gentoo-user] firefox dies on setting master password

[gentoo-user] firefox dies on setting master password

[William Kenworthy]

I am having some weird problems on a laptop after the latest X and gnome
2.26 upgrades.

Firefox is the most pressing - I cant set a master password.  It just
dissappears - no mesg in the terminal, no dmesg, no messages log, ...

Ive rebuilt firefox, and nss and used revdep-rebuild.

It was working for awhile - it is possibly related to trying to fix
mimetypes (I am missing some icons in Evolution and few other apps) but
cant see the connection.  Deleting .mozilla allows firefox to run -
until I try and set the master password again ...

BillK

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William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
Home in Perth!

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox dies on setting master password

[walt]

On 10/24/2009 02:51 AM, William Kenworthy wrote:
> I am having some weird problems on a laptop after the latest X and gnome
> 2.26 upgrades.
>
> Firefox is the most pressing - I cant set a master password.  It just
> dissappears - no mesg in the terminal, no dmesg, no messages log, ...
>
> Ive rebuilt firefox, and nss and used revdep-rebuild.
>
> It was working for awhile - it is possibly related to trying to fix
> mimetypes (I am missing some icons in Evolution and few other apps) but
> cant see the connection.  Deleting .mozilla allows firefox to run -
> until I try and set the master password again ...

You could start firefox with the -g flag to run it in gdb and see where
it crashes (if you're lucky).

I saw the missing icons too, but sadly I can't remember how I fixed it.
I think I re-installed gnome-mime-data and gnome-mime-info, but I can't
remember if that's what did it.  Sorry I can't be more helpful.