Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so and >> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_nscp_gcc29.so or >> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so in my >> working strace. I would consider mv-ing the contents of those dirs >> somewhere else as a test and see if the problem changes. > > I have renamed the .../lib/... and .../plugin/... directories and bingo > now I can again run firefox. Is the jre installed (jre.i586) broken? I > can see there is another jre (jrefactory) is that preferrable? Well that's good news, I think you need to move one of the dirs back though to pin it on the right culprit... I'm not sure that /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so is coming out of the jre since it sounds like an Acrobat plugin, so the problem could still be coming from either direction. I have that version of the jre installed here and firefox is working okay, BUT it is not listed in the about:plugins FWIW, I guess I didn't install the plugin. However I don't have Acrobat or the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so file either... in recent versions kpdf has become a perfectly acceptable replacement except for the massive pixmap leaking needing it closing and restarting after any amount of scrolling :-O -Andy
