firefox XML parsing error
Peter Flynn
peter at silmaril.ie
Tue Apr 20 11:00:01 UTC 2021
The location is presumably the one you originally posted in the original
error message.
P
On 20 April 2021 08:15:37 "Bob" <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> on Tue, 20 Apr 2021
> 07:59:11 +0100
>
>> (Apologies for top-posting: I'm on a phone)
>>
>> If there really is a 'k' in that end-tag, that is an XML well-formedness
>> error and can be fixed by removing the 'k'.
>>
>> Peter
>
> Probably. Tell me the name and location of that file.
>
>
>> On 20 April 2021 00:01:20 "Bob" <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
>>
>> > The computer that has this problem is basically a file and print server so I
>> > seldom logon to it. I tried to use firefox and get the following popup
>> message
>> > during firefox startup.
>> >
>> > XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </popupnotification>.
>> > Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml
>> > Line Number 1791, Column 7:
>> > </popupnotifkcation>
>> > ------^
>> >
>> > I deleted the current profile and recreated it. Same problem. I then
>> decided
>> > to try and update the system. That failed with the following message.
>> >
>> > Reading package lists... Error!
>> > E: Problem parsing dependency 21 of
>> > gcc-8-aarch64-linux-gnu:amd64=8.4.0-3ubuntu1cross1
>> > E: Error occurred while processing gcc-8-aarch64-linux-gnu (NewVersion2)
>> > E: Problem with MergeList
>> >
>> /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_groovy_universe_binary-amd64_Packages
>> > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>> >
>> > I then tried the magic incantation of
>> >
>> > pkg --configure -a
>> > apt install -f
>> > apt clean
>> > apt auto remove
>> > apt update
>> > apt full-upgrade -y
>> >
>> > which did not help. It failed at 'apt install -f' with the same error.
>> >
>> > After some searching of the internet I looked at
>> >
>> "https://askubuntu.com/questions/30072/how-do-i-fix-a-problem-with-mergelist-or-status-file-could-not-be-parsed-err"
>> > which fixed that problem with apt.
>> >
>> > After the upgrade firefox still gets the error popup,
>> >
>> > Anyone have a suggestion on how to recover from this error?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Robert Blair
>> >
>> >
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