Firefox 2.0 Crash Problem

[disappearedng]

Hi everyone,
I am currently using firefox 2, which is required by Eclipse's Apatana plugin.

Unfortunately, my firefox2 crashes on a regular basis with the following message:

disappearedng@192 /usr/home/disappearedng]$ firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/home/disappearedng/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object "libpthread.so.0" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]
NP_Initialize
New
SetWindow
SetWindow
SetWindow
New
SetWindow
SetWindow
SetWindow
New
SetWindow
SetWindow
SetWindow
NewStream
WriteReady
Write
decoding...
NewStream
WriteReady
Write
decoding...
WriteReady
Write
WriteReady
Write
WriteReady
Write
WriteReady
Write
DestroyStream
Destroy
DestroyStream
Destroy
Destroy
The program 'gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 89 error_code 179 request_code 147 minor_code 2)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Any idea what that means

[TerryP]

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/home/disappearedng/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object "libpthread.so.0" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]

it should really be as simple as that. It can't find the version of the posix threads library it is looking for, see $ ls /usr/lib | grep thread.

[disappearedng]

[disappearedng@192 /usr/home/disappearedng]$ ls /usr/lib | grep thread
libpthread.a
libpthread.so
libpthread_p.a
libthread_db.a
libthread_db.so
libthread_db.so.3
libthread_db_p.a

Unfortunately I have not been able to install flash under firefox in FreeBSD. What is this suppose to mean then? Is my firefox going to be unstable because it can't find the library of flash?

[ephemera]

libpthread.so.0 looks like a linux pthread library.

do you have ports/emulators/linux_base* installed, is linuxulator working?

[disappearedng]

Interestingly enough,

[disappearedng@192 /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4]$ pkg_info | grep linux_base
linux_base-fc-4_13  Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64)

Unless I have deinstalled it and reinstalled it. So I guess libthread.so.0 does not come with linux_base-fc4 ?

[anemos]

Actually it is libpthread.so.0.
Could you # find / -name "libpthread*" to see whether the lib does exist or not?
Which version of FreeBSD do you use?

[ephemera]

also, whats the o/p of: pkg_info -L linux_base-fc-4_13

[disappearedng]

Originally Posted by anemos

Actually it is libpthread.so.0.
Could you # find / -name "libpthread*" to see whether the lib does exist or not?
Which version of FreeBSD do you use?

[disappearedng@192 /usr/home/disappearedng]$ sudo  find / -name "libpthread*"
Password:
/usr/lib/libpthread.a
/usr/lib/libpthread.so
/usr/lib/libpthread_p.a
/usr/local/lib/pth/libpthread.a
/usr/local/lib/pth/libpthread.so
/usr/local/lib/pth/libpthread.so.20
/usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.2
/usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.1
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/libpthread_db.c
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/libpthread_db.h
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/arch/amd64/libpthread_md.c
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/arch/arm/libpthread_md.c
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/arch/i386/libpthread_md.c
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/arch/ia64/libpthread_md.c
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/arch/powerpc/libpthread_md.c
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/arch/sparc64/libpthread_md.c
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/libpthread_db.o
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/libpthread_md.o
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/libpthread_db.po
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/libpthread_md.po
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/libpthread_db.So
/usr/src/lib/libthread_db/libpthread_md.So
/usr/compat/linux/lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libpthread-0.10.so
/usr/compat/linux/lib/obsolete/linuxthreads/libpthread.so.0
/usr/compat/linux/lib/libpthread-2.3.6.so
/usr/compat/linux/lib/libpthread.so.0
/usr/ports/devel/libpthread-stubs
/var/tmp/instmp.yuPvvZ/lib/compat/libpthread.so.1

I am using FreeBSD 7.0

[disappearedng]

Originally Posted by ephemera

also, whats the o/p of: pkg_info -L linux_base-fc-4_13

The results are too long,
please check this pastebin:

[link]http://pastebin.com/m3aaf6cf0[/link]

[ephemera]

umm, is this the linux version of firefox or native?
if its native then i am not sure if its possible to use a linux library (/usr/home/disappearedng/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so) without some shim/hack.

i don't use firefox or flash on fbsd so others may be able to offer more pertinent advice.

have you checkedout this thread: http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2225?

[anemos]

Hi disappearedng,
could you also post # ls -l /usr/home/disappearedng/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Most probably, this must be a symlink.

[disappearedng]

Originally Posted by anemos

Hi disappearedng,
could you also post # ls -l /usr/home/disappearedng/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Most probably, this must be a symlink.

[disappearedng@192 /usr/home/disappearedng]$ sudo ls -l /usr/home/disappearedng/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Password:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 disappearedng  disappearedng  10017140 Oct 30 18:57 /usr/home/disappearedng/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

[disappearedng]

Originally Posted by ephemera

umm, is this the linux version of firefox or native?

Native (I guess). I added it via packages using pkg_add -r firefox2.

[anemos]

Hi again disappearedng,
In general, it is suggested installing firefox from source using ports. So maybe trying to pkg_delete it and re-install it from ports would solve the problem. However, I still believe that the problem is either a matter of a symlink or an entry into /etc/libmap.conf. A quick search on the internet showed some quite similar issues to have been solved.
So before trying to reinstall firefox, i suggest that you have a look - there are plenty of things you cat try out, mostly related with what already mentioned.
Good luck