Mandrake 10.1 and firefox.

[P2501]

I have scoured the net for something to point me in the right direction on this one, and have come up blank. Note that i am not a c programmer in the following!

i have a laptop with 10.1 on it, got madwifi working with no problems, and had firefox installed and working for several days. i updated my packages online using the update utility, and firefox (+ thunderbird) quit working. i removed the folders, and attempted to reinstall it. i have redownloaded it and attempted to reinstall it several times, using both the installer method and the plain old tar.gz file sans the installer. i get three lines of errors when i try it either way. something to the effect of invalid pointers and hex addresses. i tried updating to the newest bash, newest gcc, etc, and no luck.

anybody have any ideas? thanks in advance!

[sarumont]

Can you run one of them (preferably Firefox) from a terminal and post the error(s) that it spews into stdout?

[jeremy1701]

Also, can you run ff as a different user?

Jeremy

[P2501]

sure thing. the three lines i get using the non GUI installer:
SCIM: im_module_init
free(): invalid pointer 0x8a9ebd0!
free(): invalid pointer 0x8a9eba8!

i then have to ctrl-c out to get back to a prompt. i have waited for up to 20 minutes before to see if it would spit out more info and return me to a prompt, but it seems like it is hung.

when i run the installer version (gui) i get :
SCIM: im_module_init
free(): invalid pointer 0x820f160!
free(): invalid pointer 0x820f138!
./firefox-installer: line 56: 4551 segmentation fault (core dumped) ./${BINNAME}-bin $@

this one returns me to the prompt after getting the errors.

Jeremy : i have tried running it both under root and under my user name. i get the same errors.

thankyou both for the quick replies and thank you for the help!

[hal]

i finaly got it working. the way i did it may not be suitable for everybody, specially if you realy need to use SCIM:
1. unistall SCIM: $urpme scim
2. add the following line to your $HOME/.bashrc: export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
3. type bash and start fox.

this will make xim the default input method so scim won't cause any more troubles.