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Description of problem: see my 2 uploaded packagelists. in one, firefox segfaults at startup. in the other it's fine. so clearly, at least one of the packages added to the latter packageset is needed by firefox, and should be a dependency. (you can see the packages added by comparing the two packagesets with diff.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-3.6.24-3.el6_1.x86_64 Steps to Reproduce: 1. install the "firefox-segfaults" packageset 2. launch vncserver with twm as window manager 3. launch firefox (inside vnc). it segfaults. 4. install additional packages in the "oknow" packageset. 3. launch firefox as before. it's ok now. i've no idea whether vnc and/or twm play a part or are irrelevant.
Created attachment 549480 [details] packageset in which firefox segfaults
Created attachment 549481 [details] packageset in which firefox works fine
Attempting to run Firefox remotely without any font package installed causes Firefox to segfault: $ ssh -X root.3.4 root.3.4's password: Last login: Wed Feb 22 10:55:04 2012 from 5.6.7.8 [root@hostname ~]# firefox (firefox:2889): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common' GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message) Segmentation fault (core dumped) Installing a font package solves the problem. Firefox packages should have a generic dependency requiring a font package.
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Which font packages are you missing? Do you mean: liberation-fonts-common liberation-sans-fonts I don't see any other font packages there.
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Added to git.
all i can tell you, as in the original post, is that if you merely "yum install firefox" it segfaults, and if a bunch more packages are added it works. see the failing and succeeding package lists. commentor#5 changed the title asserting a font package was what was relevant.
Should be fixed in RHSA-2012:1210.