Firefox not running - conflict

[Geoffrey Bays]

GK:

I just got FF 3.07 through an Adept update, and when I tried to run
it, it did not launch.
Check to see what FF processes are running and stop them all and try
again, or as I did,
reboot your system. After reboot, FF 3.07 worked just fine.

Geoffrey Bays

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Georgi Kourtev <gkourtev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I had on my computer Firefox 3.0.6 downloaded from Mozila and installed
> manually. As the update of this version was rather difficult for me (always
> through terminal), I decided to get a normal kubuntu installation with
> Adept.
>
> I did remove the version with
> sudo rm /usr/bin/firefox
> sudo dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/bin/firefox
> sudo rm -r /opt/firefox
>
> Then installed it with Adept.
>
> Now after running the new version (which is 3.0.7) I have Firefox window
> half open, then nothing. If I run firefox from terminal I got the following
> message
>
> *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.7/firefox: double free or
> corruption (fasttop): 0x0a74f748 ***
>
> followed by a long list with backtrace.
>
> Any ideas how to make it work? Thanks.
> gk
>
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