by olemadsen » Sep 20th, '12, 02:08
Thanks for the reply. Herewith the info:
[annaie@localhost ~]$ firefox
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Segmentation fault
[annaie@localhost ~]$
[annaie@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox
firefox-10.0.7-1.mga2
[annaie@localhost ~]$
Interestingly, when I run the same rpm command on my 32 bit macchine, where firefox runs fine, I get the following:
[ole@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox
firefox-10.0.7-1.mga2
firefox-en_ZA-10.0.7-1.mga2
firefox-en_GB-10.0.7-1.mga2
[ole@localhost ~]$
Not sure what, if anything, that has to do with the problem.
As to why I put 32 bit software on a 64 bit machine, I had several reasons, not neccesarily good ones:
- my other machine is 32 bit, and I had a dvd with 32 bit software laying around.
- I had 32 bit Mandriva 2009PP running on the 64 bit machine before, and it worked fine.
- Old habit. 4 years ago, when the 64 bit machine was new, I was told that there were some small issues with the 64 bit Mandriva package, and that the 32 bit package would work just as well. But that was 4 years ago. I am sure the Mageia 64 bit package is fine.
What is the official word on 32 vs 64 bit. Bigger file sizes? Does it run faster?
Cheers
OM