--- Peter Teuben <teuben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Josh Coffman wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm having problems since updating the kernel to > > kernel 2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 and updating firefox to > > 1.0.7. Yesterday, I updated my system using yumex. > > > > Symptoms: > > - Firefox won't completely render any pages. IT > will > > show partials like some table border. The URL > isn't > > even visible although I can see the text selection > > highlight when I ctrl+L. > > - Epiphany won't start > > - GDM login reports a config error and shows a > > fall-back login screen, but users can login. > > > > Repos I used for the update: > > - fedora base > > - fedora updates-released > > - fedora extras > > - I was thinking I used dag also, but I see it > is > > not enabled. > > > > I tried changing the GDM theme to the default, but > > still have the same problem. > > > > For firefox, I tried > > remove/re-install/downgrade/update and it never > got > > better. > > > > I don't know where to begin, so help is > appreciated. > > did you try and use an older kernel to confirm it > was the > kernel. For a while i've had similar problem. I've > been > totally mystified. GAIM would show many processes > cloned, > which i initially thought was the cause of webpage > getting > locked up (btw, i did find simple pages always > works, but > the one that include various externally hosted ads > etc. would > lock it up). > > At some point when i thought all was well, i > upgraded firefox: > and poof, all bad again. Startted with a new > ~/.mozilla tree. > Still bad. > > Odd thing is that mozilla worked fine, but firefox > would lock > up. I did't try any of the other programs you > mentioned. > > I have stick to the 1398 kernel though, otherwise my > APM > doesn't work. In both the newer ones APM is shot, > and ACPI > isn't working for me (Dell Inspiron 8200) > The fix mentioned in the firefox font thread seems to fix my firefox problem. I currently booted on kernel 1447 and it still had the problem until I uncommented the settings mentioned in the other thread. I tried running epiphany from the command line and it said it can't find shared object libgtkembedmoz.so. There is a bugzilla bug that seems to describe the problem, but I'm confused about the solution: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120220 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
