Help Required after upgrade.

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

Did you try google ??

The first hit I get for "firefox expr: syntax" is for FC6, but seems  
related ...

Chris

On 28 Apr 2009, at 7:44PM, Kevin Izzet wrote:

> Hi Ric,
>
> Firefox was already installed via apt, I have tried remove /
> re-installing and also
> moved the .mozilla directory and started it in -safe-mode but it still
> fails.
>
> Kev
>
> Ric Moore wrote:
>> 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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