Suddenly, the Firestorm client keeps crashing at the end of the
"opening" sequence. It runs OK in Mint. I ran strace, and got 2
possible leads:

1. The program tries to call "http://Phoenix....." instead of "https://Phoenix" and fails, but this has never been a problem anywhere
else. I can't see where the old address comes from.

2. There is a line claiming that the "CA certificates" cannot be opened.
I had that happen with BOINC, so I copied the list into the BOINC
folder, where it could be found. But this time, I cannot find any list.

If both these are not the problem, I can send a crash report to
Firestorm, but I would like to exclude as many causes as I can, first.

TIA,

Doug.

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On 27/12/22 16:25, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

Suddenly, the Firestorm client keeps crashing at the end of the
"opening" sequence.  It runs OK in Mint.  I ran strace, and got 2
possible leads:

1. The program tries to call "http://Phoenix....." instead of "https://Phoenix" and fails, but this has never been a problem anywhere else.  I can't see where the old address comes from.

2. There is a line claiming that the "CA certificates" cannot be opened.
 I had that happen with BOINC, so I copied the list into the BOINC
folder, where it could be found.  But this time, I cannot find any list.

If both these are not the problem, I can send a crash report to
Firestorm, but I would like to exclude as many causes as I can, first.

TIA,

Doug.

On the second alternative, I installed an extra SSL RPM [apr-util-openssl-1.6.1-4.mga8]. This stopped the crashing, but now I
have a BlSOD. Progress, I suppose.

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On 28/12/22 22:03, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

On the second alternative, I installed an extra SSL RPM [apr-util-openssl-1.6.1-4.mga8]. This stopped the crashing, but now I
have a BlSOD.  Progress, I suppose.

No, it didn't stop the crashuing, The most common final message is:

"curl_easy_perform() failed: Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)"

This is a common and well-documented error, but nothing seems to work.
The certificates were accepted a very few weeks ago; no updates have
come down. There are two 32-bit libraries supplied, but since I
installed most of them with Crossover Office (another 32-bit app) I had assumed that they were already there. PclOS runs Firestorm O.K.; the
"fonts" issue seems to be a nuisance one. At the moment, I will simply
switch to PCL.

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