266867 - Linux (SuSe 8.2) : Firefox installer crashes

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Rob Vijgenboom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: FireFox

SuSe Linux 8.2 : firefox-installer crashes with following error messages :
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: XDMauthorisation key matches an  existing client!

(firefox-bin:19376): Gtk-WARNING** : cannot open display

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. simply try to install it on SuSe Linux 8.2
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
see error report

Expected Results:  
install ? or give a (humanly) clear clue as to what might be wrong .....

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Did you read system requirements before trying?
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements.html Mozilla.org
public FF builds are xft/gtk2 builds, neither of which are included on my SuSE
8.2 box. Unfortunately, the homepage download link doesn't bother to mention
xft/gtk2. Even if it was to install you wouldn't like it unless you enabled
fontconfig and gtk2. You might try untarring the tar.gz download from ftp, then
try to run it from a shell prompt to see better error messages if it fails to start.

Comment 2

[Rob Vijgenboom]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Did you read system requirements before trying?
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements.html Mozilla.org
> public FF builds are xft/gtk2 builds, neither of which are included on my 
SuSE
> 8.2 box. Unfortunately, the homepage download link doesn't bother to mention
> xft/gtk2. Even if it was to install you wouldn't like it unless you enabled
> fontconfig and gtk2. You might try untarring the tar.gz download from ftp, 
then
> try to run it from a shell prompt to see better error messages if it fails 
to start.

Yes, I did.
I have installed both gtk2 and fontconfig (called xft on SuSe)..... same 
result.





(In reply to comment #1)
> Did you read system requirements before trying?
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements.html Mozilla.org
> public FF builds are xft/gtk2 builds, neither of which are included on my 
SuSE
> 8.2 box. Unfortunately, the homepage download link doesn't bother to mention
> xft/gtk2. Even if it was to install you wouldn't like it unless you enabled
> fontconfig and gtk2. You might try untarring the tar.gz download from ftp, 
then
> try to run it from a shell prompt to see better error messages if it fails 
to start.

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Where did you find xft? I opened yast2 in SuSE 8.2 and did a search for both
fontconfig and xft in name, summary, description, provides and requires, and it
found neither, as did grep in output of 'rpm -qa'.

Comment 4

[Rob Vijgenboom]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Where did you find xft? I opened yast2 in SuSE 8.2 and did a search for both
> fontconfig and xft in name, summary, description, provides and requires, and 
it
> found neither, as did grep in output of 'rpm -qa'.

Oeps ...... what I found and loaded was 'xftp' - this may not be quite the 
same as 'xft'............... Ýou're right - there is no fontconfig or xtf on 
SuSe 8.2.....

Comment 5

[Felix Miata]

SuSE 9.0 and up do have xft/fontconfig and gtk2, and probably have RPMs of FF
available. You can probably build from source without it. Since 8.2 doesn't have
xft/fontconfig -> invalid.