Browser problems

[cprivers]

I am running Puppy 5.11 with a full install and I am having trouble keeping a browser open. Chromium only stays open for about 8 seconds. Opera & Firefox stay open about a minute, then unceremoniously close. There are never any errors shown. Got any ideas?

[Edit] I ran Firefox in a terminal and got this when it closed:

/usr/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 29697 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Chrome gave this:

Segmentation fault

Opera shows this in the terminal after startup:

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Chuck

[looseSCREWorTWO]

What are the specs for your PC?
- Pentium 2, 3, 4, or what ?
- How much RAM ?
- How much Swap ?

[DaveS]

Hmm. That Opera error is Java related I think.....

[cprivers]

CPU: P4, 2.4gh
RAM: 1gig
Swap: 2.86gb

Ran Memtest86 for 10 hours with no errors, so doesn't appear to be a ram problem.

Opera is behaving so far today.

Chuck

[Béèm]

On what partition type did you do the full install?
Maybe boot from CD with puppy pfix=ram (enter this during the 5 second pause) and run in a console fsck /dev/xxx (where xxx is your partition)

[RetroTechGuy]

I am running Puppy 5.11 with a full install and I am having trouble keeping a browser open. Chromium only stays open for about 8 seconds. Opera & Firefox stay open about a minute, then unceremoniously close. There are never any errors shown. Got any ideas?

[Edit] I ran Firefox in a terminal and got this when it closed:

/usr/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 29697 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Chrome gave this:

Segmentation fault

Opera shows this in the terminal after startup:

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Chuck

The Firefox message from the command line looks like the infamous "I just upgraded Firefox, and it ran out of pupsave space during the upgrade and so the install barfed on me, corrupting my old Firefox, without installing the new one".

It is a known Firefox bug, as Firefox should first confirm that there is enough space to download and install, before installing partially and crashing -- leaving your system broken.

Clear some space, so you have say at least 70 or 80MB, then try re-installing Firefox, confirm that you still have 70 or 80 MB, then tell Firefox to upgrade to the latest. This has fixed it every time I tried it.

(yes, I believe that it corrupts the libraries, so other errors are likely as well)

[cprivers]

Thanks guys, I'll try those suggestions.

This is a full install with about 12gb available, so it's not a space problem.

Chuck

[looseSCREWorTWO]

If all else fails I would set up another partition, do a Frugal Install into the new partition, then amend Grub so you have a choice at bootup between Full and Frugal.

It's a long-shot, but sometimes one install method works when the other don't.

[cprivers]

The last time I used Firefox it closed with this error:

/usr/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 5678 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

I have Ubuntu on this box too, so I booted it up to run fsck. Here is what I got:

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Puppy-511: recovering journal
Clearing orphaned inode 8256 (uid=0, gid=0, mode=0100755, size=1335560)
Clearing orphaned inode 8238 (uid=0, gid=0, mode=0100755, size=113964)
Puppy-511: clean, 35001/820896 files, 476850/3337495 blocks

I guess that this means that there were errors that were fixed. I am going to re-install Firefox next if the problem continues.