Debugging procedure for firefox 3.0

[Alexander Sack]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:51:30PM +0530, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
>  I was looking at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs?action=show&redirect=DebuggingFirefox
> 
> Therein this command
> 
>  gdb /usr/lib/firefox-3*/firefox 2>&1 | tee /tmp/gdb-firefox.txt

what does 

 ls  /usr/lib/firefox-3*/firefox

give you?

> 
> gives me this :-
> 
> ./gdb: line 1: GNU: command not found
> ./gdb: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `C'
> ./gdb: line 2: `Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.'
> 
> Another thing, I wanted to see which libs there are in /usr/lib about firefox
> 
>  cd /usr/lib/firefox
> firefox/         firefox-3.0/     firefox-3.0b3/   firefox-addons/
> firefox-plugins/
> 
> This shows me there is a firefox-3.0b3 library which perhaps is not
> required anymore. How do I remove it?


try to do dpkg -S firefox-3.0b3 and i there is no hit, just remove
that directory manually. Please run a find /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/ and
post the output here though.


Thanks,

 - Alexander