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.
> >
> >
> >
> >                         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 :
> >
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> >           "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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