Firefox and Crome is not starting after update.

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#1

I have updated from OpenSuSE 11.3 to 11.4

When trying to start chrome or firefox I get:
server:~ # chromium
/usr/lib64/chromium/chromium: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_source_set_name

server:~ # firefox
/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_source_set_name

Please help!

#2

I have updated from OpenSuSE 11.3 to 11.4

When trying to start chrome or firefox I get:
server:~ # chromium
/usr/lib64/chromium/chromium: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_source_set_name

server:~ # firefox
/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_source_set_name

Please help!
You may have an option to downgrade Firefox to version 3.6 and get it to work. I have an article on the subject here:

How To Switch to Firefox 3.6 in openSUSE 11.4

Consider that if an upgrade goes bad, a clean install might be your next step if you want all of the new applications to work. If you maintained a seperate /home partition, doing a clean install is painless as all old settings are maintained. You will need to reload all of your old applications, but once loaded, you will find they still have your old settings as if by magic. To use an exitsing /home partition, just edit the suggested partition setup to use your old /home partition and do not set it to be formatted and it is done.

Thank You,

#3

Not sure if this will help Chrome, but it won’t hurt.

zypper in libpng12-0

This is from another thread. It got Chrome working for me and I had no messages to show me lipng12-0 was missing.

#4

Firefox is launched and work fine in root mode. I have tried it two ways.

  1. Start a session (KDE or Gnome) as root.
  2. In terminal # firefox. No problem. But, When it is launched from ordinary user, the matter is the same, it fails at start up and appears a screen, that offer to send report concerning the error.
#5

Sounds like a configuration file is messed up or not compatible with the new version.

I your home directory rename the ~/.mozzila folder ( it is hidden ie starts with a period)

If this works you can copy the various config files from the renamed directory to the new one one by one until you find the one that breaks things.

Also even as a test it is ill advised to log into any GUI as root

#6

Yes, you are right, by start up I receive notification about unability to reopen some previously (before upgrade to 11.4) opened tabs, and advise to start new session. But note rapidly disarrears, springs screen about error. There ware also some incompatible extensions. But I think tath they are disabled.
I am sorry I don’t understad what in what I must rename.
There is folder /root/.mozilla/ that has other conteint than /home/<user mane>/.mozilla. I Think, when Firefox is launched from “su”, it refers to first. May be simply accord the containt of the First to that of second.