Fire fox- thunderbird- synaptic crashes as soon as I mouse click on anything.

[rovernaut]

I've installed the last couple of updates over the last 2 days on Jaunty and now I have crashes.
Fire fox opens but as soon as I use my mouse to select something it crashes.
I opened it in konsole and it crashed but I managed to get this error report

"defaultusers@Kubuntu9:~$ firefox
firefox: /build/buildd/cairo-1.8.6/src/cairo-surface.c:861: cairo_surface_set_device_offset: Assertion `status == CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS' failed.
Aborted
defaultusers@Kubuntu9:~$"

and

With Thunderbird via Konsole I got this error

"defaultusers@Kubuntu9:~$ thunderbird
Illegal instruction
defaultusers@Kubuntu9:~$"

and synaptic gave this

"defaultusers@Kubuntu9:~$ synaptic
Illegal instruction
defaultusers@Kubuntu9:~$"
tried as root
got this
"defaultusers@Kubuntu9:~$ sudo synaptic
[sudo] password for defaultusers:
Illegal instruction
defaultusers@Kubuntu9:~$"
Also got this error
"defaultusers@Kubuntu9:~$ firefox
Segmentation fault"

Any ideas please?

[russlar]

Re: Fire fox- thunderbird- synaptic crashes as soon as I mouse click on anything.

those are all GTK apps... Do you have other GTK apps installed on your system (gedit, pidgin), and are those working?

[rovernaut]

Re: Fire fox- thunderbird- synaptic crashes as soon as I mouse click on anything.

those are all GTK apps... Do you have other GTK apps installed on your system (gedit, pidgin), and are those working?

No don't have pidgin or Gedit.
I've run firefox and thunderbird , synapatic for a while without problems.
I did install a deb package a couple of days ago named 'Bonager" a program that allows me to schedule a system check in advance to the default check after "x" amounts of boots. It installed a few dependencies which were GTK
I now cannot uninstall the damn thing. ( my fault for not using the repos I suppose >)
Uninstalling it via synaptic gave this error "E: bonager: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1"

In konsole it gave this error
"(Reading database ... 152470 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing bonager ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/bonager exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force)
dpkg: error processing bonager (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/bonager missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
System startup links for /etc/init.d/bonager already exist.
Errors were encountered while processing:
bonager
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:"

[ejt]

Re: Fire fox- thunderbird- synaptic crashes as soon as I mouse click on anything.

I realize this post is dated, but I have been experiencing the same problem, but I have not installed anything except software updates through kde control module or synaptic. The behavior almost feels like a virus! did this thread ever get resolved?