From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N1iZw-0007BL-Dl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:30:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC1FAE07CC; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA444E07CC for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A96A66EDC for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:30:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.181 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.181 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.582, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id A5FsD2pKh7YQ for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:30:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BB366D12 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:30:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N1iZa-0006iM-Tt for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:30:30 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-187-231.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.187.231]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:30:30 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-187-231.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:30:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox dies on setting master password Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:30:13 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1256377872.19685.149.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-187-231.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091024 Shredder/3.1a1pre In-Reply-To: <1256377872.19685.149.camel@rattus> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: c0a24942-2367-474d-ad9e-02418adbd41f X-Archives-Hash: 76fbbb3c28804c688bdb9a7c6369b3c2 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.