Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:06:40 +0100 From: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GTK filedialog crashes Firefox/Thunderbird Message-ID: <46041730.6040708@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200703231344.09310.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <4603EC16.10909@gmx.net> <200703231344.09310.lists@jnielsen.net>
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John Nielsen wrote: > On Friday 23 March 2007 11:02:46 am Frank Staals wrote: > >> It seems that I'm having problems (again) with the GTK filedialog in >> Firefox/Thunderbird. It happens when saving or opening a file in Firefox >> or thunderbird resulting in a crash. What to do: >> >> - Open Firefox >> - Save a file, the save-file dialog comes up, Save or cancel it. >> - Save a file, when the file dialog comes up, file dialog hangs and >> after a second or something firefox crashes >> >> Same thing happens when trying to open a file using the file dialog a >> second time, and same for thunderbird: The second time the GTK file >> dialog comes up it seems to crash firefox or thunderbird. >> >> When I was running firefox-1.5 there was the exact same problem which >> was fixed in one of the developement releases and when first running >> Fx-2 I didn't have any problems with it either. I checked in the gimp >> and geany if there were problems with the file dialog but it worked fine >> in those programs. Has anyone else problems with this ? >> > > I'm seeing the same behavior. I searched around on the web a while ago and saw > a report (on a firefox bug issue or mailinglist I think) from another FreeBSD > user about this. He later followed up to his own post saying that the problem > went away after he recompiled ALL of his ports. The thing that was > interesting is that he only saw the bad behavior under xfce (what WM are you > using, btw?). I'm running xfce 4.4.0 and have the problem, but I haven't > gotten around to recompiling everything yet. I may or may not wait for the > modularXorg stuff to be committed before I do so... > > JN > > Hmm I wondered if I should have added what WM I was running but I guess so: Running xfce-4.4.0 on xorg-7.2rc3. Fixed by recompiling all my ports seems a lot of work to fix something with GTK :S but well I'm planning on reinstalling FreeBSD not that long from now ( want to switch disc setup ) hope that will fix the problem then. Allthough there ougth to be an better/more specific solution then just recompiling everything .... -- -Frank Staals
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