Dapper - epiphany and firefox stopped working, segmentation fault.

[Scott J. Henson]

Sean Hammond wrote:
> I've just been informed that one of the Dapper machines in our cafe is
> having problems (though oddly the other one next to it is fine, maybe
> they are in different upgrade states). Epiphany and Firefox have
> stopped working, although everything else seems to work fine:
> 
> forest at hawthorn:~$ epiphany
> 
> (epiphany:4909): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Failed to create service browser:
> Bad state
> 
> forest at hawthorn:~$ firefox
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Anyone know what this might be?
> 

Thats probably bad.  Could be anything from bad hardware or
a botched upgrade to possibly a compromise if these are
public terminals.

Since this seems to be a cafe, I would say try a quick
reinstall as the cheapest form of diagnostic.  If it keeps
doing it, run memtest86 and then start doing hardware testing.

-- 
Scott Henson
LCSEE Systems Staff
WVU MAE Undergraduate
Ubuntu User