Firefox, Chrome and Evolution email won't start

[tmort]

Recently Firefox, Chrome and Evolution won't start (Opera does work).

I've tried rebooting and looked for something running with system monitor but don't see anything.

I've been spending some very frustrating time with another hard drive that has windows installed. Maybe something is spilling over.

Any ideas?

---------- Post added at 08:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:13 PM ----------

I also tried to use yum or yumex to remove and reinstall. I get a segmentation fault for anything I try to do with yum and yumex won't start.

Originally Posted by tmort

Recently Firefox, Chrome and Evolution won't start (Opera does work).

I've tried rebooting and looked for something running with system monitor but don't see anything.

I've been spending some very frustrating time with another hard drive that has windows installed. Maybe something is spilling over.

Any ideas?

---------- Post added at 08:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:13 PM ----------

I also tried to use yum or yumex to remove and reinstall. I get a segmentation fault for anything I try to do with yum and yumex won't start.

have you tried running Chrome or firefox or Evolution in Full root by doing

su
password:
firefox and tell us the output

also when you start yum from CLI what is the output of the error you get

[tmort]

[root@localhost ~]# firefox
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge": libatk-bridge.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(firefox:863): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use
/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 863 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
[root@localhost ~]#

[root@localhost ~]# yum update
Segmentation fault
[root@localhost ~]#

instead of trying to run yum ,, run yumex in CLI

what Fedora release do you have btw?


also go to Terminal an do this, just a lil guess but im wondering if this file libatk-bridge.so exists where it should be what you can do is do from terminal

locate libatk-bridge.so

[tmort]

[root@localhost ~]# yumex
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge": libatk-bridge.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(yumex.pyc:895): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use
/usr/bin/yumex: line 5: 895 Segmentation fault /usr/bin/python /usr/share/yumex/yumex.pyc $*
[root@localhost ~]#

exactly what i thought.. as i edited my post above, try an locate that file

[tmort]

[root@localhost ~]# locate libatk-bridge.so
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/at-spi-corba/modules/libatk-bridge.so
[root@localhost ~]#

I'm running Fedora 14 and it is up to date.

I was using chrome and evolution earlier in the day and haven't done anything while running with the hard drive linux is installed on

what you need to do is load that Module. somehow it went into " sleep " mode.

what you can do is read through manpages on how to load that Module

man module

however try this before you do anything else

insmod libatk-bridge.so

[tmort]

[root@localhost ~]# insmod libatk-bridge.so
insmod: can't read 'libatk-bridge.so': No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]#

only other thing i can think of doing is. Probing that Module

modprobe mymodule.ko just an example

[tmort]

[root@localhost ~]# modprobe libatk-bridge.so
FATAL: Module libatk_bridge.so not found.
[root@localhost ~]#

I found at-spi-1.32.0-2.fc14.i686.rpm when I searched for libatk-bridge.so

I guess I'll try installing it.

goodluck but i would of thought you already had that

[tmort]

the install gets cancelled.

I get a backend didn't exit cleanly error

Originally Posted by tmort

the install gets cancelled.

I get a backend didn't exit cleanly error

how did you try and install it? what if you CD to the directory where you saved it an do a rpm -i install . you might always wanna try the --force command if the first way doesnt install

[tmort]

[root@localhost Download]# rpm -i at-spi-1.32.0-2.fc14.i686.rpm
Segmentation fault