Andy Green wrote:
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
Acrobat works fine. Thanks to Andy Green's directions I have nailed down the
firefox problem to be due to a link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so plugin.
Changing the link to /usr/java/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
solved the problem. I found that it is thoroughly described in
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/manual_install_solaris.html
The thunderbird problem turned out to be missing dependency libstdc++.so.5 and
"yum install libstdc++.so.5" solved that problem. Actually libstdc++.so.6 was on
the system but thunderbird insists on using libstdc++.so.5 :-)
Thanks for the help and for teaching me the use of strace.
--
Erik.
