When I run firefox 0.93 or mozilla 1.7.2-r1 from bash and access www.ebay.de I receive error messages. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open firefox or mozilla from bash 2. open the URL www.ebay.de 3. look what gets printed in the bash Actual Results: (Gecko:2071): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file gnome-vfs-mime-info.c: line 916 (get_value_real): assertion `!does_string_contain_caps (mime_type)' failed (Gecko:2071): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file gnome-vfs-mime-info.c: line 916 (get_value_real): assertion `!does_string_contain_caps (mime_type)' failed (Gecko:2071): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file gnome-vfs-mime-info.c: line 916 (get_value_real): assertion `!does_string_contain_caps (mime_type)' failed (Gecko:2071): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file gnome-vfs-mime-info.c: line 916 (get_value_real): assertion `!does_string_contain_caps (mime_type)' failed (Gecko:2071): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file gnome-vfs-mime-info.c: line 916 (get_value_real): assertion `!does_string_contain_caps (mime_type)' failed Expected Results: Don't display these messages. It seems to me that there is something broken. bash-2.05b# emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25-gentoo-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r4 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
The same goes for * net-www/galeon : [ I] 1.3.17 (0)
still a problem with mozilla-firefox-1.0-r2?
Now that I look at the error messages, they're coming from gnome-vfs and aren't affecting your browsing experience. Nothing here we're going to fix; the gnome upstream will fix it on their own.