263668 - update 1.0pre failed, new 1.0pre downloaded on Oct. 10 fails to start.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Qingyou Meng]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: 1.0pre before Oct. 1

My installation of the first public release of firefox 1.0pre works well. 
Yesterday I updated pango to 1.4.1-1, then 1.0pre updating fails, and newly 
downloaded 1.0pre on 10 Oct. fails to start. os & arch: FC2 with AMD Athlon xp 
2500+ 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. updated pango to 1.4.1-1 on FC2 
2. update firefox 1.0pre failed, incompatibility reported. 
3. download the latest 1.0pre version with security fix, but after 
installation, can not start in console.  
 
stderr shows error:  
(QFA)Talkback error: Can't initialize. 
 
a small window with yellow background the title 
of "Gecko". Two lines of text draws in window center:  
 
      title="&mainWindow.title;" 
--------------------"  
 
. 
Actual Results:  
dear firefox, I miss you. 

Expected Results:  
doest it caused by newly updated pango?

Comment 1

[Qingyou Meng]

BTW, my env variables LANG and LC_ALL are both set as "zh_CN", after 
installation, the console says: 
 
./firefox-installer 
 
** (firefox-installer-bin:14773): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to 
pango_layout_set_text() 
 
** (firefox-installer-bin:14773): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to 
pango_layout_set_text() 
 
** (firefox-installer-bin:14773): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to 
pango_layout_set_text() 
 
** (firefox-installer-bin:14773): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to 
pango_layout_set_text() 
[mqy@woloo firefox-installer]$ *** loading the extensions datasource 
*** loading the extensions datasource 
 

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Qingyou, can you please uninstall Firefox, install Firefox 1.0 and try to update
that?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Qingyou Meng]

Sorry for my laziness. I've changed to FC3 for a long while. 
I did un-install firefox and install later version(s),
I can remember the "bug" disappeared.

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan]

No changes were made to the code base by this bug, worksforme.