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    Firefox does not start on 64bit live or VM.

    I have tried three times to install a VM in Virtualbox 4.3.8 with a live .iso from the daily image site, downloaded 25 Feb using zsync, so I know the image file is fine. There have been no updatsd to the image since then to attempt a newer install.

    Almost everything works but Firefox (version 25) will not load giving an error in terminal. This is actually copied from a live system running in VBox, but the installed VM gave exactly the same error, except for a different process pid. I am about to try running the live system on real hardware instead of in VBox so will report back shortly if things are any different in that situation.
    Code:
    lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ firefox
    
    (process:3200): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size ==0' failed
    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
    The 64bit Xubuntu daily, fully updated, works fine and is running in a VM as I speak, as does the 32 bit Lubuntu daily.

    Any thoughts, or is it just a glitch of that particular day's Lubuntu 64 image?

    EDIT:
    I have just used the same daily Lubuntu 64 iso as a live system on real hardware in stead of on VBox, as I said I was about to, and the problem is exactly the same; Firefox is simply refusing to run with exactly the same error message.
    Last edited by ajgreeny; February 27th, 2014 at 05:06 PM.

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    Re: Firefox does not start on 64bit live or VM.


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    Re: Firefox does not start on 64bit live or VM.

    Thanks sudodus. I had already found a bug report a while after posting here, but it's only in Lubuntu that it has happened to me, not Xubuntu 64bit, and only the 64bit version; the i386 Lubuntu is fine.

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    Re: Firefox does not start on 64bit live or VM.

    Yes, it is a strange bug.

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