Two Buggy Browsers

[Angus MacGyver]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 10:32 -0700, daniel mcfarland wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Angus MacGyver
>         <macgyver at calibre-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
>                 [...]
>                 As to the firefox..
>                 
>                 Have you tried to execute it from the command line ?
>                 
>                 
>                 Quoting PeteVG
>                 2)  Try running Firefox from the command line by
>                 opening a terminal,
>                 typing "firefox", and hitting Enter.  Watch the
>                 terminal output, as it
>                 may give you hints as to why Firefox is crashing.
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 Do that and post any output...
>                 
>                 Cheers
>                 
>                 AM
>                 
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>         
>         A.M.--
>         
>         
>         nat at nat-desktop:~$ ls ~/
>         AdbeRdr9.3.3-1_i486linux_enu.bin  examples.desktop
>         Podcasts
>         Adobe                             Firefox
>          Public
>         AdobeReader.desktop               Firefox_wallpaper.png
>          Templates
>         Azureus Downloads                 hs_err_pid25054.log
>          troubleshoot.txt
>         bin                               hs_err_pid25604.log
>          Videos
>         Desktop                           Music
>         Documents                         Pictures
>         nat at nat-desktop:~$ cd ~/Firefox
>         nat at nat-desktop:~/Firefox$ ls
>         application.ini             libfreebl3.so    LICENSE
>         blocklist.xml               libmozjs.so      modules
>         browserconfig.properties    libnspr4.so
>          mozilla-xremote-client
>         chrome                      libnss3.so       platform.ini
>         components                  libnssckbi.so    plugin-container
>         crashreporter               libnssdbm3.chk   plugins
>         crashreporter.ini           libnssdbm3.so    README.txt
>         crashreporter-override.ini  libnssutil3.so   removed-files
>         defaults                    libplc4.so       res
>         dependentlibs.list          libplds4.so      run-mozilla.sh
>         dictionaries                libsmime3.so     searchplugins
>         extensions                  libsoftokn3.chk
>          Throbber-small.gif
>         firefox                     libsoftokn3.so   update.locale
>         firefox-bin                 libsqlite3.so    updater
>         greprefs                    libssl3.so       updater.ini
>         icons                       libxpcom.so
>         libfreebl3.chk              libxul.so
>         nat at nat-desktop:~/Firefox$ firefox
>         nat at nat-desktop:~/Firefox$ 


Agree with kthxbye (tho bottom post.. :-)  )
Moved for clarity.. 

> 
> 
> 
>   Run this :
> 
> 
>   "ps -ef f | grep firefox | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs
> kill ; firefox"
> 
> 
>   Then send us the result.
> 
> 
>   kthxbye




I'd chance at saying a file called .parentlock exists in your Firefox
directory.

from Terminal

cd
cd .mozilla
cd firefox
ls -al

Should see something like..

macgyver at executor:/home/macgyver/.mozilla/firefox> ls -al
total 308
drwx------ 3 macgyver macgyver     24 2010-04-21 18:48 .
drwx------ 5 macgyver macgyver     24 2010-04-22 19:44 ..
drwx------ 7 macgyver macgyver 303104 2010-08-11 18:46 1cj2njxb.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 macgyver macgyver     94 2010-04-21 18:48 profiles.ini


cd to whatever the "*default" is..
in my case ...

cd 1cj2njxb.default

ls -al..

~ <list snipped>
-rw-r--r-- 1 macgyver macgyver        0 2010-08-07 09:26 .parentlock
~


do a ...

rm .parentlock


then try run firefox again.


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AM