Two Buggy Browsers
daniel mcfarland
daniel.mcfarland at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 18:05:17 UTC 2010
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Angus MacGyver <
macgyver at calibre-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 13:46 -0400, Nathan Bahn wrote:
> >
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> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:32 PM, daniel mcfarland
> > <daniel.mcfarland at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
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> >
> > Do that and post any output...
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > AM
> >
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> > A.M.--
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> >
> > 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$
> >
> >
> > A window keeps popping up saying that FF is already
> > running.....
> >
> >
> > --N.B.
> > --
> > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint
> > attachments.
> > See
> > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> > & http://www.openoffice.org (Nathan Bahn)
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> > Run this :
> >
> >
> > "ps -ef f | grep firefox | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' |
> > xargs kill ; firefox"
> >
> >
> > Then send us the result.
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> > kthxbye--
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> > nat at nat-desktop:~$ ps -ef f | grep firefox | grep -v grep | awk
> > '{print $2}' | xargs kill ; firefox
> > nat at nat-desktop:~$ ~/Firefox/firefox
> > NPP_GetValue 1
> > NPP_GetValue 2
> > Attempting to load the system libmoon
> > NPP_GetValue()
> > NPP_GetValue()
> > nat at nat-desktop:~$
> >
> >
> > I get a window saying that FF crashed.
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> DOH!!!!
> I missed something..
>
> And here is the thing..
>
> This appears to be not a "system" version of Firefox, but a stand-alone
> copy in your home directory..
>
> For a normal setup, firefox should be started from /usr/bin/firefox, not
> ~/Firefox/firefox (~ meaning *your* home directory - sorry if you know
> this, don't know how much you do, so putting anyway)
>
> macgyver at executor:/home/macgyver> which firefox
> /usr/bin/firefox
>
>
> Unless there is a really compelling reason to use one specifically in
> your own home directory, I would try to use the system one..
>
> Try running the "which firefox" command to make sure you get the
> same /usr/bin/firefox as myself (also a 10.04 LTS user)
>
> Try running that version, see what happens...
>
>
> If you don't get that, but something else, then the pathing may well be
> a bit broken, and a re-install of firefox from Synaptic might be the
> best course of action.
>
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This was blatantly obvious after he ran the commands from the command line
that I sent earlier.
the " ; firefox" should have launched a firefox process, however he ran an
additional command after
the commands I sent.
do a dpkg -l | grep firefox ; then if the output is nothing rm -rf
/home/whatever/Firefox ; apt-get install firefox
This really isn't that difficult.
What's the problem even?
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