[Bug 476370] [NEW] Firefox in Jaunty made messy upgrade to Karmic

[Duncan Lithgow]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

I wanted to report a bug in Firefox (3.5.4) but I can't vis 'Help >
Report a Problem'. It goes through the motion but never opens a new tab
for me to use. When I start firefox from the cli I get the following
output:

(firefox:2258): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead [repeated more than I have space for in the cli]
(firefox:2258): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead
Warning: The options -p/-P are deprecated, please do not use them.  See /usr/bin/ubuntu-bug --help
Error showing url: Failed to execute child process "/home/duncan/bin/firefox/firefox" (No such file or directory)
Error showing url: Failed to execute child process "/home/duncan/bin/firefox/firefox" (No such file or directory)

Probably the core problem here is that I installed Firefox 3.5 in Jaunty
manually and the upgrade to karmic has messed things up. The reason
there is an error with the URL is that there is no longer a
/home/duncan/bin on my system, although that's where I had installed 3.5
under Jaunty. I deleted that bin directory after the upgrade to Karmic
as I assumed that I had a clean new copy of Firefox.

So, Ubuntu needs to find a cleaner way to upgrade when an application
has been manually installed somewhere non-standard.

If someone can tell me where to find the files generated by apport
before they are overwritten I will happily upload them.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: jaunty karmic upgrade

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Firefox in Jaunty made messy upgrade to Karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476370
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