On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 07:41:03PM +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, fred smith wrote:

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To: centos@centos.org From: fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Subject: [CentOS] centos-5.5 VS Firefox 3.6.12

My firefox auto-installed an update from 3.6.11 to 3.6.12 this morning, after which it gives this upon a restart attempt:

Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error. 0x00123c47 in memset () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2

while I dig deeper, wondering if anyone else has seen it and/or can suggest a fix.

Thanks!

Not sure if this is relevant, but on Centos 5.5 when Firefox (or libraries it uses) gets updated, it seems like a reboot is necessary to get things in sync with each other.

Otherwise Firefox might be attempting to use wrong libraries.

Just my own thoughts here.

Anyone else noticed this behaviour using FF ?

well, I haven't re-booted (and haven't observed, or at least noticed, the behavior you mention), but I moved aside (renamed) the directory where my firefox installs, downloaded 3.6.12 and installed it, and it works fine. so I suppose it's possible we had a bad download, or as time has marched by some kind of cruft has accumulated in the former firefox directory. beats me.

at least it's working now.