Firefox 3 is disappearing every now and then, for no discernable
reason. The error message showing up in .xsession-errors that
seems pertinent is:

/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-basic-plugin.so: undefined
symbol: g_content_type_get_description
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3

Firefox 3 version:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061913
Mandriva/3.0-3mdv2008.1 (2008.1) Firefox/3.0
Installed from rpm package firefox-3.0-3mdv2008.1

System:
Linux localhost 2.6.24.5-desktop-2mnb #1 SMP Thu Jun 12 15:15:19 EDT
2008 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ GNU/Linux

The OS is Mandriva Linux 2008.1.
Desktop is KDE 3.5.9, but the same happens under GNOME 2.22.0.

Complicating matters, but I think not the problem (tell me if I
am wrong), I have Firefox 2.0.0.16 installed on the system (until
recently that was 2.0.,0.15), because it is used by Gnome desktop
apps. Now and then it gets launched, but then closed down and
Firefox 3 started (which crashes the first time and then recovers
and works thereafter).

Any ideas on what to do about this?

Cheers!

jim b.

Jim Beard wrote:
> /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-basic-plugin.so: undefined
> symbol: g_content_type_get_description

See this bug at Mandriva Bugzilla:
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42017

Summary: Firefox crashes because Totem plug-in

Hope this helps.

--
Alex K.

Alex K. wrote:
> Jim Beard wrote:
>> /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error:
>> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-basic-plugin.so: undefined
>> symbol: g_content_type_get_description
>
> See this bug at Mandriva Bugzilla:
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42017
>
> Summary: Firefox crashes because Totem plug-in
>
> Hope this helps.

It does. I removed the totem-mozilla package, and Firefox no
longer crashes (at least so far). Loss of functionality will
have to be tolerated until a new version that fixes the bug
comes out.

Many thanks!

jim b.