Problem with FireFox3 on HP-UX11i

[Peter Robrish]

When I try to start the version of FFox3 I just downloaded and installed, I get the following:

(firefox-bin):GLib-GObject-WARNING **: specified class size for type 'PangoXftFontMap' is smaller than the parent type's 'PangFcFontMap' class size

(firefox-bin): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:file gobject.c: line 1053: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failded
/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh[36]: 8085 Bus error(coredump)

So, the question is what is missing from my installation? I have the latest PHSS patch required by the instructions (actually, it's most recent updated version). What am I missing?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You are probably missing the required gtk depot listed on http://www.hp.com/go/firefox or http://www.hp.com/go/mozilla that is needed to run the application.

Firefox unfortunately in my opinion will install without the pre-requisite application installed.

SEP

[Peter Robrish]

Thanks for the reply. SAM reports to me that I have GTK+ 2.6.8.00.00 installed. Is that a sufficiently advance version or is there a more recent version that might allow FFox3 to run.

[Peter Robrish]

Well, another data point. If I don't export the SHLIB_PATH environment variable pointing to /opt/gtk2.6, which contains the GTK2.6.8 bits swinstalled from the GTK2.6.8 depot that I got by following the links from www.hp.com/go/firefox, then FireFox3 complains about missing out on gtk stuff(not unexpected), but it does come up without crashing. So, clearly something is missing from either the depot I used to load GTK2.6.8, or its use depends on some other shared library that is out of date on my system. Any idea what that might be?

[TTr]

Try running firefox with the following two commands

export SHLIB_PATH=/usr/lib:/opt/firefox
/opt/firefox/firefox-bin

Take a look at these

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1352801

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1382547

[Peter Robrish]

Thanks for the reply. In particular the second of your pointers was interesting to me since the poster had exactly the problem that I am having. I have checked to see that GTK2.6.8 is installed on my machine. If I try running FFox3 with no SHLIB path exported, or the version that you suggest, the app runs without crashing, but is VERY slow, probably because the window from which it was started is VERY busy reporting errors due to the fact that it is trying to use the GTK2 libraries and could not find them. If I put the GTK2 libraries in the SHLIB path before running FF3, the app crashes. So, I still think some library that Glib depends on is not up to date. Any idea what recent 11.11 patches might address that issue?

[Peter Robrish]

So, with the unloading of FFox3 from my system, and the subsequent loading of FFox3.5.9, along with the suggested script from TTr for getting GTK2.6 out of the way of the code, as well as the info that setting X0screens DefaultVisual Depth to 24 rather than the default 8, the application now seems to run reasonably well.

Thanks for the help and the pointers to the other thread(that's where I got the info about the X0screens gotcha). Anyway, this is the end of this thread as far as I'm concerned.

[Peter Robrish]

The suggestion of TTr along with the loading of FFox 3.5.9 and the info found in the second thread from TTr's last reply that noted the gotcha associated with the DefaultVisual Depth reuired to be 24 for reasonable operation has solved the problem. Thanks to all.