Re: external protocols crashing

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:56, Conrad Lloyd-Knight wrote:
> 
> On a related note... 
> 
> I'm having an issue with some (most?) protocols being "broken" in
> galeon. If I visit any web page with a "news:", "telnet:" or anything
> other than "http:" or "mailto:", galeon seg faults on me before even
> rendering the page. It all works fine in mozilla, so that's not where
> the problem is. I'm guessing the problem lies with whatever galeon
> hands off "other" protocols to. Even the "mailto:" links no longer
> function at all.
> 
> "mailto:"s used to open an xterm for me, running mutt. Now they do
> absolutely nothing when clicked on. I've checked the gnome-handler
> settings and set those to use do the appropriate thing, but that
> didn't help. I didn't really expect it to, as I never had to do that
> before when it used to work (probably because I don't use gnome).
> 
> Can anyone suggest how to track down exactly what is causing the
> crash? I've tried using strace, but because galeon starts up so many
> different processes, I haven't been able to make any sense of the output.

If you install bug-buddy it'll let you display the stack trace when
galeon crashes.  It should have all the information you need, assuming
debugging symbols are not stripped from the binaries.

What comes to the crashing, I don't know what's happening.  Upgrade
maybe? ;)


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Tommi Komulainen                                 [email protected]
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