#9992 NORM 1.5-sof: Firefox fails to start on Gnome

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#9992: Firefox fails to start on Gnome
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           Reporter:  RafaelOrtiz       |       Owner:  cscott                           
               Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  1.5-software-later               
          Component:  firefox-activity  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:                    |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  reproduce         |    Verified:  0                                
Deployment_affected:                    |   Blockedby:                                   
           Blocking:                    |  
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Old description:

> Firefox is failling to start on os108
>

> {{{
> cant import cStringIO
> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/timemodule.so: undefined symbol:
> PyExc_ValueError
> }}

New description:

 Firefox is failing to start on os108:

 {{{
 cant import cStringIO
 /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/timemodule.so: undefined symbol:
 PyExc_ValueError
 }}}

 (Edit: Only occurs the first time Firefox is started, remove .mozilla
 directory to reproduce).

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Comment(by Quozl):

 I chanced upon a method to reproduce this ... I set the root password on
 the laptop and ran firefox displayed over SSH to another system:

 {{{
 % ssh -X root at laptop firefox
 Obtaining the module object from Python failed.

 Traceback (most recent call last):
 cant import cStringIO
 <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-
 dynload/timemodule.so: undefined symbol: PyExc_ValueError
 }}}

 The whole error is emitted three times.  It only happened once, as if it
 relates to the first run of Firefox.

 So I tried removing .mozilla directory ... that reproduces the error, both
 for root and the normal desktop user.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9992#comment:8>
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