Hello!

After upgrading the version 3.0, the following error occurs
bash-3.1$ firefox
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0/crashreporter: error while loading shared
libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory

Someone, managed to solve this problem?

On 23 Jul., 20:11, brusso <bru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After upgrading the version 3.0, the following error occurs
> bash-3.1$ firefox
> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/crashreporter: error while loading shared
> libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
>
> Someone, managed to solve this problem?

Well... GConf is part of the GNOME desktop. Since Pat uses the
official binary that means that the official binary was compiled on a
machine that had GConf installed. GConf is used to store configuration
settings on a Windows-registry-like "database" (even if it works
different...)

Since i have GNOME installed i do not get that problem, FF3 works more
or less good. That means if you can get the GConf library installed on
your desktop you should also get FF3 to work. But i'm not sure if that
is all worth it since i had a few problems with FF3 on Windows and on
Slackware...

What i don't understand is that if you have used the package from
slackware-current... why did Pat not get into trouble himself? Maybe
he is still using 2.0.0.x...

Markus

I just reinstalled Slackware 12.1 and used the package from -current.
I do not get that gconf issue here.

Where did you get the firefox3 package from?

On 2008-07-23, brusso <brusso@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> After upgrading the version 3.0, the following error occurs
> bash-3.1$ firefox
> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/crashreporter: error while loading shared
> libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
>
> Someone, managed to solve this problem?


That's not Firefox, that's the Firefox crash reporting tool.
Is firefox actually working for you? If not, then it's crashing
for some reason (which is the *real* problem), and then when it
tries to load the crash reporting tool, you're seeing (correctly,
might I add) that the crash reporting tool requires gconf to work.
This means that the crashreport tool doesn't work in Slackware,
but Firefox itself is fine (except perhaps on your system, but
I'm speaking in general).

-RW

Robby Workman wrote:

> That's not Firefox, that's the Firefox crash reporting tool.
> Is firefox actually working for you? If not, then it's crashing
> for some reason (which is the *real* problem), and then when it
> tries to load the crash reporting tool, you're seeing (correctly,
> might I add) that the crash reporting tool requires gconf to work.
> This means that the crashreport tool doesn't work in Slackware,
> but Firefox itself is fine (except perhaps on your system, but
> I'm speaking in general).

So gconf is a Firefox 3 dependency?

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On 2008-07-24, Peter Chant <REMpeteOVE@CAPpetezilla.ITALSco.uk> wrote:
> Robby Workman wrote:
>
>> That's not Firefox, that's the Firefox crash reporting tool.
>> Is firefox actually working for you? If not, then it's crashing
>> for some reason (which is the *real* problem), and then when it
>> tries to load the crash reporting tool, you're seeing (correctly,
>> might I add) that the crash reporting tool requires gconf to work.
>> This means that the crashreport tool doesn't work in Slackware,
>> but Firefox itself is fine (except perhaps on your system, but
>> I'm speaking in general).
>
> So gconf is a Firefox 3 dependency?

No, gconf is a dependency of the crash reporting tool in FF3.

-RW

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:03:44 +0000, Robby Workman
<newsgroups@rlworkman.net> wrote:

>On 2008-07-24, Peter Chant <REMpeteOVE@CAPpetezilla.ITALSco.uk> wrote:
>> Robby Workman wrote:
>>
>>> That's not Firefox, that's the Firefox crash reporting tool.
>>> Is firefox actually working for you? If not, then it's crashing
>>> for some reason (which is the *real* problem), and then when it
>>> tries to load the crash reporting tool, you're seeing (correctly,
>>> might I add) that the crash reporting tool requires gconf to work.
>>> This means that the crashreport tool doesn't work in Slackware,
>>> but Firefox itself is fine (except perhaps on your system, but
>>> I'm speaking in general).
>>
>> So gconf is a Firefox 3 dependency?
>
>No, gconf is a dependency of the crash reporting tool in FF3.
>
>-RW

I had no issues deleting /usr/lib/firefox/crash* from FF3.0/3.0.1.on
Slackware 12.0

After that, starting FF from command prompt to look for errors: not a
single error.

Crashreporter is not needed to run FF.

Before FF3, Crashreporter was an extension in
/usr/lib/firefox/extensions, which I always deleted after once
Crashreporter popped up, and wanted me to dend report to Mozilla
without offering an option to cancel, or to quit. Only option was to
send report.

I don't like that kind of behaviour, so I delete that stuff always.

Manuel