I’m writing about Eee PC right now, and after updating a clean install (no added repositories) was surprised to find Firefox failing with a segmentation fault. Clicking the Firefox icon did nothing. Running from a console got this:<\/p>\n
\n\/opt\/firefox\/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: nnnn Segmentation fault<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Reinstalling Firefox and deleting the profile did not work, nor did safe mode. I found the answer here<\/a>. Open a console (Control-Alt-T) and type:<\/p>\n
\nsudo apt-get install eeepc-updatepack-20071126<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
What does this package do? <\/p>\n
\nThis update pack fixes SCIM for applications which were provided to ASUS as binaries. This includes Firefox, Thunderbird, Adobe Acrobat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
SCIM is the Smart Common Input Method<\/a> platform. <\/p>\n
All is now well, but I’m not impressed. Running apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade should not break important applications. Nor is it obvious how to fix the problem. This kind of thing will put new users off Linux; not good if Asus really wants to make the Eee a mass-market device. <\/p>\n
Incidentally, if you are stuck without Firefox on the Eee and need to browse the web, typing konqueror from a console will fire up the KDE web browser.<\/p>\n
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