Mint 13: Firefox 39.0 crashes right on startup
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Mint 13 32-bit: Firefox 39.0 crashes right on startup
with the error message printed twice:
" [NPAPI 8734] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/
This affects the Firefox package Firefox 39.0-build5-
The problematic file in the firefox package seems to be the file libxul.so. This is where the crash actually occurs.
Note:
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This crash seems to happen on any 32-bit version of Linux Mint 13.
It does not seem, however, to affect Ubuntu 12.04.x 32-bit, on which Mint 13 32-bit is based.
The file libxul.so installed as part of Firefox 39.0-build5-
The file libxul.so that comes as part of the genuine Mozilla tarball has got the date 01-Jul-2015 02:49.
Replacing the libxul.so installed through the PPA by the genuine Mozilla file solves the isse, as far as I can test and tell.
For more details, please, see this report in the Linux Mint forum:
http://
It would be greatly appreciated if this problem could by investigated and hopefully solved before Firefox 39.0 will be made available on the normal Ubuntu repos, because this is where Mint13, too, like Ubuntu 12.0.4x, fetches most of it software from.
And up to Firefox 38.0, the Ubuntu provided Firefox has always run perfectly fine on Mint 13, too.
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Requested details:
(1) ~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Release: 13
~$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="12.04.5 LTS, Precise Pangolin"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu precise (12.04.5 LTS)"
VERSION_ID="12.04"
~$
(2) ~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
Installiert: 39.0+build5-
Kandidat: 39.0+build5-
Versionstabelle:
*** 39.0+build5-
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
38.
500 http://
500 http://
11.
500 http://
(3) Firefox 39 should start up as Firefox 38 did
(4) Yet, instead it crashes on startup
all you can do is decide to send a bug report or not. No chance of using Firefox 39.
tags: | added: third-party-packages |
This bug affects me as well. In my case FF is starting but all actions like opening a new tab or requesting a web address are refering to an app crash.
Solution up to now: Downgrading to FF 38.0
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Linux Mint 13 - 32Bit, kernel 3.2.0-87, nvidia 304 graphics driver