[CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

[fred smith]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:19:10PM +0100, James Pearson wrote:
> fred smith wrote:
> > 
> > Other info, I don't know what would be helpful. I'll paste in here the
> > contents of the X.org log file from which the backtrace above came,
> > in case that might be helpful. Or, ask any specific question and I'll
> > try to answer.
> 
> > 	(EE) Oct 17 20:49:08 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
> > 	(EE) Oct 17 20:49:08 NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
> > 	(EE) Oct 17 20:49:08 NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.  If
> > 	(EE) Oct 17 20:49:08 NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
> > 	(EE) Oct 17 20:49:08 NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
> 
> That doesn't look good ...

No, it doesn't. Perhaps I need to reinstall the Nvidia driver.
but it's weird that everything seems to just work except for FF 16.0.1.

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