Help Required after upgrade.

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 01:41:28 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 18:29 +0100, Kevin Izzet wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Need some help, I upgraded from 8.04 to 9.04 at the weekend using the 
> alternate cd,
> all appeared to have gone fine but I have hit on an issue which I can't 
> resolve.
> 
> Since the upgrade firefox no longer works.
> 
> If I start firefox from the command line after a couple of seconds I get 
> the following output and nothing else happens
> 
>  kimm :~$ 
> firefox                                                              
> expr: syntax 
> error                                                                
> expr: syntax 
> error                                                                
> expr: syntax 
> error                                                                
> expr: syntax 
> error                                                                
> expr: syntax 
> error                                                                
> expr: syntax error    
> 
> If I do a ps -ef and grep for firefox I get
> 
> kimm     21238  4850 10 18:20 pts/2    00:00:01 
> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.9/firefox
> 
> the expr: syntax error continues until I ctrl-c the session.
> 
> I have noticed a similar issue with Opera.
> Konqueror  is the only browser which currently works.

How did you install Firefox?? Ric

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