Maurice Batey

Using 2008.0 PP's Firefox, if I select the File option 'Page
Preview', Firefox immediately exits instead of doing preview.

Can anyone throw any light on this, please?

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Bit Twister

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:16:04 +0000, Maurice Batey wrote:
> Using 2008.0 PP's Firefox,

Yeouch, Mandriva needs to get caught up on updates.
I just installed firefox-2.0.0.10.tar.gz

> if I select the File option 'Page
> Preview', Firefox immediately exits instead of doing preview.
>
> Can anyone throw any light on this, please?

Give us that p0rn url and we'll check for you. :-D

Just joking, but try a
locate index.html
and cut/paste one of those and see if it aborts the preview.

When you hit preview, the page's extension drives which app is to be
used to preview it. You might try clicking up a terminal,
firefox

and try again to see if you get a message.

Maurice Batey

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:36:25 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

> Yeouch, Mandriva needs to get caught up on updates.
> I just installed firefox-2.0.0.10.tar.gz

Yes, indeed. (Under 2007.0, I just got an auto-update to
2.0.0.10.)

>try a
> locate index.html
> and cut/paste one of those and see if it aborts the preview.

Did that with bookmarks.html. Page preview just flashed up
"Preparing" and then Firefox closed.

>You might try clicking up a terminal,
> firefox
>
> and try again to see if you get a message.

Did that with bookmarks.html. The message then given on
console was:

'Line 131 7102 Segmentation fault "Sprog" S{1+"S@"}'

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P.S. Page preview also fails on:

www.bbc.co.uk !
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Bit Twister

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:38:37 +0000, Maurice Batey wrote:
> P.S. Page preview also fails on:
>
> www.bbc.co.uk !

Hmmm, no idea on your error message. Also you keep
saying Page Preview, I have been hitting Print Preview.

Am I in the wrong window?

Robert M. Riches Jr.

On 2007-11-27, Maurice Batey <maurice@bcs.removethis.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:36:25 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:
>
>> Yeouch, Mandriva needs to get caught up on updates.
>> I just installed firefox-2.0.0.10.tar.gz
>
> Yes, indeed. (Under 2007.0, I just got an auto-update to
> 2.0.0.10.)
>
>>try a
>> locate index.html
>> and cut/paste one of those and see if it aborts the preview.
>
> Did that with bookmarks.html. Page preview just flashed up
> "Preparing" and then Firefox closed.
>
>>You might try clicking up a terminal,
>> firefox
>>
>> and try again to see if you get a message.
>
> Did that with bookmarks.html. The message then given on
> console was:
>
> 'Line 131 7102 Segmentation fault "Sprog" S{1+"S@"}'

That sounds like time to file a bug report.

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Maurice Batey

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:05:17 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

> Also you keep
> saying Page Preview, I have been hitting Print Preview.

Yikes, yes, of course it's PRINT review; apologies.
(Eye must have strayed to 'Page Setup' on line above...)

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Bit Twister

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:36:57 +0000, Maurice Batey wrote:

> Yikes, yes, of course it's PRINT review; apologies.
> (Eye must have strayed to 'Page Setup' on line above...)

Been there, done that.

I ran Firefox 2.0.0.8 Print Preview without problem.

Are you running Kde or Gnome?
And able to print preview from other apps?
Is this a clean install or an upgrade?
Have you installed cups?
Is this a 32 bit install or 64 bit install?

$ cat /etc/release
Mandriva Linux release 2008.0 (Official) for i586

Maurice Batey

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:39:45 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

> Are you running Kde or Gnome?

KDE

> And able to print preview from other apps?

Yes (KPDF, OpenOffice Writer)

> Is this a clean install or an upgrade?

Clean install

> Have you installed cups?

Yes

> Is this a 32 bit install or 64 bit install?

32 (but same problem with 64-bit on laptop)

> $ cat /etc/release
> Mandriva Linux release 2008.0 (Official) for i586

Ditto

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Bit Twister

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:52:37 +0000, Maurice Batey wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:39:45 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:
>
>> Are you running Kde or Gnome?
>
> KDE
>
>> And able to print preview from other apps?
>
> Yes (KPDF, OpenOffice Writer)
>
>> Is this a clean install or an upgrade?
>
> Clean install
>
>> Have you installed cups?
>
> Yes
>
>> Is this a 32 bit install or 64 bit install?
>
> 32 (but same problem with 64-bit on laptop)
>
>> $ cat /etc/release
>> Mandriva Linux release 2008.0 (Official) for i586
>
> Ditto

Well, that taps me out of what to look into.