Segmentation faults in various applications, e.g. firefox, thunderbird and others

[bychan]

Hi
I am encountering serious problems at the moment.
I am using SuSe 10.1, but it looks as if the problem is not necessarily distribution depended, as I found some messages about my error in Ubuntu forums as well.
So, my problem is, when I try to start firefox and thunderbird, I receive the following error message:
in the case of thunderbird:
/opt/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 6637 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
and with firefox
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 6701 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Can anybody help me, please?

Bernard

[rong]

Have you tried removing and reinstalling these apps? As you may know this fault has to do with memory allocation issues. Are these the only two apps that have the problem? Can you run another browser or email client successfully?

[bychan]

Yesterday evening, I installed hundreds of new fonts. I never thought that this might effect some applications in such a way. One font was the culprit, it's "Amabile". So, don't trust such lovely names
Taking it out of the fonts pool and starting the following two commands again fixed everything:
fc-cache -f -v /usr/share/fonts
fonts-config