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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2006 09:11:33 -0500
From:      "Michael Johnson" <ahze@ahze.net>
To:        "Justin Smith" <jsmith@drexel.edu>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox crashes on startup
Message-ID:  <b2203fed0611080611k2fa13e81m3364c39f23f1f7d6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1162993508.7782.3.camel@vorpal.math.drexel.edu>
References:  <1162993508.7782.3.camel@vorpal.math.drexel.edu>

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On 11/8/06, Justin Smith <jsmith@drexel.edu> wrote:
> A very odd problem!
>
> On startup, firefox and thunderbird both produce the messages
>
> /home/jsmith/.gtkrc-2.0:2: Unable to find include file:
> ".gtkrc-2.0-scrollbar_cog"
>
> (Gecko:7801): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type
> `GConfClient'
>
> (Gecko:7801): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion
> `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
>
> (Gecko:7801): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>
> On the other hand, epiphany and mozilla both work perfectly! After
> deleting the .mozilla/firefox directory, firefox works ONCE (i.e., it
> works, but every time afterwards, it crashes). It's as if it can't
> tolerate the existence of a .mozilla/firefox directory or can't read or
> parse it.

Make sure you have nspr--4.6.3_1 installed, if not upgrade nspr and
everything should work. If not please email us back.

>
> uname -a
>
> FreeBSD vorpal.math.drexel.edu 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0:
> Wed Oct 11 11:09:36 EDT 2006
> jsmith@vorpal.math.drexel.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
>
> This problem first appeared after upgrading Gnome to 2.16. Oddly,
> another computer seemingly configured exactly the same doesn't have this
> problem.
>
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