Firefox3.0.10 Problems

[Pete Randall]

I noticed this morning that HP has finally made Firefox V3 available, so I downloaded and installed it.

My first attempt at running it blew up in my face, so I went back and made sure that all the pre-reqs were covered: the required HP patch (which has to do with excessive CPU utilization - not core dumping), the GTK libraries (that are only needed for Thunderbird, which I don't have), then tried it again. Same story.

Here's what I get:

# /opt/firefox/firefox

(firefox-bin:26942): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: specified class size for type `Pan
goXftFontMap' is smaller than the parent type's `PangoFcFontMap' class size

(firefox-bin:26942): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1053: assert
ion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh[36]: 26942 Bus error(coredump)

Any ideas?


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Pete:

I don't have any insight but you might want to add your OS and platform to this post :-)

Regards!

...JRF...

[Pete Randall]

Duhhh! Thanks, Jim.

# model
9000/785/C3000
# uname -a
HP-UX tsws1 B.11.11 U 9000/785 2006183676 unlimited-user license


Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Firefox needs those gtk libraries, you need to install them Pete.

SEP

[Pete Randall]

Steve,

Sorry, that's what I attempted to imply - that I had installed the GTK libs when I said "made sure that all the pre-reqs were covered". Granted I might have been able to make that clearer, but it doesn't get much clearer than what it says on the http://www.hp.com/go/firefox page:

" You must install the windowing toolkit before installing Thunderbird. It is not necessary to install the GTK+ 2.6.8 depot in order to run Mozilla."

In this case it says Mozilla rather than Firefox, but Firefox docs are loaded with these mis-references and, besides - I did install the depot.


Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

The web page is wrong.

Firefox requires gtk. I created the depots NDS Technologies uses for all its HP-UX sytems requiring a browser.

Mozilla and Firefox started out on the same code base and have a lot of common requirements.

Nice talking to you.

SEP

[Pete Randall]

In any case, they are installed and it still fails.


Pete

[Duncan Edmonstone]

installed and worked first time on my 11.11 workstation:

# swlist GTK FIREFOX
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "c3000"...
#
# Target: c3000:/
#

# FIREFOX A.3.0.10ar.00 Firefox for HP-UX
FIREFOX.Firefox A.3.0.10ar.00 Firefox 2.0
# GTK 2.6.8.00.00 GTK+ 2.6 The Gnome GUI Runtime Toolkit
GTK.Gtk 2.6.8.00.00 GTK+ 2.6 The Gnome GUI Runtime Toolkit


have you checked install went ok (swverify)

HTH

Duncan

[Pete Randall]

Looks good to me:



# swverify FIREFOX

======= 10/29/09 11:21:08 EDT BEGIN swverify SESSION
(non-interactive) (jobid=tsws1-0104)

* Session started for user "root@tsws1".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "tsws1:/".
* Software selections:
FIREFOX,r=A.3.0.10ar.00,a=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=HP
Firefox.FFOX-COM,l=/opt/firefox,r=A.3.0.10ar.00,a=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/
64,v=HP,fr=A.3.0.10ar.00,fa=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64
Firefox.FFOX-COM-DOC,l=/opt/firefox,r=A.3.0.10ar.00,a=HP-UX_B.11.11
_32/64,v=HP,fr=A.3.0.10ar.00,fa=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64
Firefox.FFOX-PA20,l=/opt/firefox,r=A.3.0.10ar.00,a=HP-UX_B.11.11_32
/64,v=HP,fr=A.3.0.10ar.00,fa=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64
* Selection succeeded.


* Beginning Analysis
* Session selections have been saved in the file
"/root/.sw/sessions/swverify.last".
* The analysis phase succeeded for "tsws1:/".
* Verification succeeded.


NOTE: More information may be found in the agent logfile using the
command "swjob -a log tsws1-0104 @ tsws1:/".

======= 10/29/09 11:21:39 EDT END swverify SESSION (non-interactive)
(jobid=tsws1-0104)



Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

swremove both gtk and firefox.

Then do one of the following:
1) Use swpackage or swcopy to create a single depot containing both products. Then swinstall the whole depot.
2) Install gtk depot, check the logs carefully for issues and then install firefox.

I ran into trouble when I did the firefox install, got the exact same error as you did and then did the gtk install.

It would not work after that until I ripped them both out and installed them in the correct order.

I also recall having to play around with the shared library path variable, but don't try that right away, I'm pretty sure the problem is firefox doesn't install correctly due to lacking build time requirements which of course are not in the depot.

SEP