Hi

Today, mdkapplet decided to update the above, among other things. Now,
when I start Firefox and go to news.bbc.co.uk, FF (2.0.0.15) crashes
with the following message:

/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.15/mozilla-firefox-bin: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-basic-plugin.so: undefined symbol:
g_content_type_get_description

Seems like a bug to me. Should this be reported, and if so where?
k

Keith wrote:
>
> Today, mdkapplet decided to update the above, among other things. Now,
> when I start Firefox and go to news.bbc.co.uk, FF (2.0.0.15) crashes
> with the following message:
>
> /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.15/mozilla-firefox-bin: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-basic-plugin.so: undefined symbol:
> g_content_type_get_description

Following up:

If I remove package totem-mozilla-gstreamer-2.22.0-4.2mdv2008.1, it then
works. If I reinstall the previous version
totem-mozilla-gstreamer-2.22.0-4.1mdv2008.1, it works.

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:03:35 +0100, Keith wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Today, mdkapplet decided to update the above, among other things. Now,
> when I start Firefox and go to news.bbc.co.uk, FF (2.0.0.15) crashes
> with the following message:
>
> /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.15/mozilla-firefox-bin: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-basic-plugin.so: undefined symbol:
> g_content_type_get_description
>
> Seems like a bug to me. Should this be reported, and if so where?
> k

Based on your followup, it would be https://qa.mandriva.com/enter_bug.cgi
because of the plugin.


For firefox errors it would be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi

Keith <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>Today, mdkapplet decided to update the above, among other things. Now,
>when I start Firefox and go to news.bbc.co.uk, FF (2.0.0.15) crashes
>with the following message: ...

Because some totem/gstreamer packages link directly to the Mozilla
libraries (and maybe to each other) you need to inspect their changelogs
and update those packages as necessary from the Mandriva Control Centre,
or they'll still be trying to link to FF 2.0.0.14. See thread "Firefox 3
video playing problem".

That said, I found FF 2.0.0.15 was troublesome even with everything
updated, and wouldn't play the video URL in the above thread, but when I
restored my system from backup to get FF 2.0.0.14 (because FF 2.0.0.14
has vanished from the repositories) then it played OK. It might have
simply been finger trouble on my part, but I couldn't be bothered to
investigate because I've overtopped my boredom threshold on FF troubles,
and I'm just glad to have a working system at the moment.

I've got a number of backdated packages on my system to fix regressions
so I've now completely de-installed mdkonline. Mandriva 2008 has given
about four times the trouble that Mandriva 2007 gave for my system, but
that's probably the luck of the draw.

--
Dave Farrance

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:34:41 GMT, Dave Farrance wrote:
>
> Because some totem/gstreamer packages link directly to the Mozilla
> libraries (and maybe to each other) you need to inspect their changelogs
> and update those packages as necessary from the Mandriva Control Centre,
> or they'll still be trying to link to FF 2.0.0.14. See thread "Firefox 3
> video playing problem".

Me thinks that plugin has other problems because when running it twice,
second time did not crash. Deleting .mozilla* would cause the crash to
come back.

> I've got a number of backdated packages on my system to fix regressions
> so I've now completely de-installed mdkonline. Mandriva 2008 has given
> about four times the trouble that Mandriva 2007 gave for my system, but
> that's probably the luck of the draw.

Guessing 2009.0 is going to be a bunch of fun with kde 4.x. :-(

Been playing with kde 4 on kubuntu, suse and Mandriva 2009.0 alpha 2.

I have been talking to $DEITY a whole lot.

On 2009.0a2, I can not hide "Task bar", change desktop background for
each desktop or create desktop shortcuts, yet.

FYI: kcontrol replaced by systemsettings.