Seamonkey/Firefox don't work after update

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Today I updated some applications via YaST as I did so often before,
but whether Firefox nor Seamonkey will work after updating these today.
I uninstalled Firefox completely, but I need Seamonkey as I use the Mail-function a lot.
Symptoms are: I start Seamonkey webbrowser from the menu, I get the window frame and at the moment, when it will display the starting page it closes.
I can start Seamonkey Mail, it downloads the messages, but when I will open a message the program closes.
I run openSUSE 11.0 with the Gnome desktop.

Any helpful hints?

Dickfell

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The version of Seamonkey is: 1.1.16-1.7 (x86-64).
Even a re-install didn’t help.

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Could you post the output of zypper sl -d , I heard reports of issues with the Mozilla repository today, mainly Firefox from there acting strangely (complaining about missing xulrunner version)

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Output after zypper sl -d:

| Alias | Name | Aktiviert | Auffrischen | Priorität | Typ | URI

—±-----------------------------------------------------------------±----------------------------------------±----------±------------±----------±---------±---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | openSUSE_BuildService_-XFCE | openSUSE BuildService - XFCE | Ja | Nein | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_11.0
2 | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0 | NVIDIA Repository | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0
3 | Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.0 | Packman Repository | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.0
4 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.0-Debug | Nein | Nein | 120 | NONE | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/debug
5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Oss | Ja | Nein | 120 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/oss
6 | openSUSE_BuildService-GNOME:Community | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Community | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_11.0
7 | Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0 | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0
8 | Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/ | VideoLan Repository | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/
9 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | openSUSE-DVD 11.0 | Ja | Nein | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr1,/dev/sr0
10 | EasyLinux | EasyLinux | Nein | Ja | 99 | plaindir | dir:///root/easylinux
11 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss | Ja | Ja | 120 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss
12 | openSUSE_BuildService-GNOME:STABLE | openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:STABLE | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/GNOME:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0
13 | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.0
14 | openSUSE_BuildService-_OpenOffice.org | openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org | Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0

I checked in YaST for the mentioned xulrunner versions:
mozilla-xulrunner181 1.8.1.19-1.4 (x86_64)
mozilla-xulrunner190 1.9.0.11-2.2 (x86_64)
mozilla-xulrunner190-gnomevfs 1.9.0.11-2.2 (x86_64)
mozilla-xulrunner190-translations 1.9.0.11-2.2 (x86_64)
are the currently installed packages on my system.

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I fixed the malfunction of the Mozilla-programs by a new-install of openSUSE 11.1

  • Seamonkey & Firefox are working well now, but I do have some other issues like printing, which I will publish in the appropriate section.

Dickfell

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What a pity - happiness lasted just 3 weeks.

Today I updated Seamonkey and Firefox and some dependencies again and:
Seamonkey will not work anymore, showing the same symptoms as mentioned before.
Firefox is still alive, I’m just using it.

As system I use openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 with Gnome-desktop.

What is the trick?

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I just saw that an update for seamonkey came through, on the heels of the Firefox update. Works fine AFAICT from a quick fire-up.

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This thing drove me mad. After half an hour of experiments and dozens of seamonkey crashes this is the combination that worked so far (from “repo-update”](http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/) ):

mozilla-xulrunner190 1.9.0.10-1.1.1
(all other xul deinstall)

MozillaFirefox-3.0.10-1.1.1

seamonkey-1.1.16-1.1.2

I really really hate when simple automatic update screws the things. No wonder my friends one by one go to that abomination of macosx…

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I experienced the same problems. First at my laptop Seamonkey stopped working after an update. I didn’t find the responsible update for this. Testing in a Konsole, I got a segmentation fault directly after viewing any website page. I didn’t care to much because I don’t use the laptop that often.

Today it happened on my main computer. That hurts more. So I have de-installed everyupdate from today. I found out that removing xulrunner 1.90 did the trick. Removing xulrunner 1.90 in Yast did give an install of xulrunner 1.81. Now Seamonkey is working again.

I did lose Firefox though, but I don’t care about Firefox.

As I did a lot of work to find out on my main computer (removing and installing several packages) I tested my theory also on my laptop with the broken seamonkey installation. I only removed xulrunner 190 and let Yast install xulrunner 1.81. And Seamonkey works also again on my laptop.

Hope it helps someone to fix his/hers Seamonkey.

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I tried xulrunner 1.9.0.10-1.1.1-i586 from the OpenSUSE-11.1-Update repository as nekodrugi suggested. That works for me with Seamonkey 1.1.17.