[xubuntu-users] xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 211, Issue 5

Sun Oct 20 13:31:36 UTC 2024

I saw the same message after installing Ubuntu 24.10.  After a reboot it
went away. This was on my Dell Inspirin 15-3555.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 5:00 AM <xubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>    1. Re:  Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start (jeff at cjsa.com)
>    2. Re:  Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start (Liam Proven)
>    3. Re:  Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start (jeff at cjsa.com)
>    4. Re:  Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start (Cody Smith)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 09:40:45 -0700
> From: jeff at cjsa.com
> To: jeff at cjsa.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general
>         discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc: Mailing Lists <xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start
> Message-ID: <8c7c39df428ca4377e67f6f2b5eac76f at cjsa.com>
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> On 18.10.2024 11:09, Jeffery Small wrote:
> > Firefox was working fine on Xubuntu 22.04. The OS upgrade completely
> > failed and I am now rebuilding a new Xubuntu 24.04.1 system. I
> > uninstalled the snap package and installed the latest version of
> > Firefox from the mozillateam ppa
> > (131.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~mt1). Any attempt to start
> > /usr/bin/firefox results in the pop-up message:
> >
> > "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or
> > inaccessible."
> >
> > This is not true. The same profiles exist in ~/.mozilla/firefox and
> > even attempting to specify a specific profile with -P fails. This
> > problem seems commonly reported on other versions of Linux but not
> > Ubuntu. I tried removing the entire ~/.mozilla directory but that did
> > nothing. I tried starting in safe mode, but same results. However,
> > there are also other start-up messages:
> >
> >> 17-> /usr/bin/firefox
> >> [Parent 29355, Main Thread] WARNING: Failed to parse
> >> /u/jeff/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini: Permission denied: 'glib
> >> warning', file
> >>
> >
> /build/firefox-E8vObn/firefox-131.0.2+build1/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187
> >>
> >> (firefox:29355): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:37:42.425: Failed to parse
> >> /u/jeff/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini: Permission denied
> >> [Parent 29355, Main Thread] WARNING: Theme parsing error:
> >> gtk.css:1:0: Failed to import: Error opening file
> >> /u/jeff/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css: Permission denied: 'glib warning',
> >> file
> >>
> >
> /build/firefox-E8vObn/firefox-131.0.2+build1/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187
> >>
> >> (firefox:29355): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:37:42.426: Theme parsing error:
> >> gtk.css:1:0: Failed to import: Error opening file
> >> /u/jeff/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css: Permission denied
> >> [Parent 29355, Unnamed thread 74eea8386ca0] WARNING: Failed to get
> >> cache content /u/jeff/.cache/gtk-3.0/compose/8bedc2de.cache: Failed
> >> to open file “/u/jeff/.cache/gtk-3.0/compose/8bedc2de.cache”:
> >> Permission denied: 'glib warning', file
> >>
> >
> /build/firefox-E8vObn/firefox-131.0.2+build1/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187
> >>
> >> (firefox:29355): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:37:42.732: Failed to get cache
> >> content /u/jeff/.cache/gtk-3.0/compose/8bedc2de.cache: Failed to
> >> open file “/u/jeff/.cache/gtk-3.0/compose/8bedc2de.cache”:
> >> Permission denied
> >> [Parent 29355, Unnamed thread 74eea8386ca0] WARNING: Failed to open
> >> file “/u/jeff/.XCompose”: Permission denied: 'glib warning',
> >> file
> >>
> >
> /build/firefox-E8vObn/firefox-131.0.2+build1/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187
> >
> >> firefox:29355): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:37:42.732: Failed to open file
> >> “/u/jeff/.XCompose”: Permission denied
> >
> > None of this makes sense as all these files exist and are readable.
> > This may be an underlying gtk problem.
> >
> > Has anyone else run across this and any suggestions as to what needs
> > to be done.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.  The problem was not due to any
> residual snap package, my home directory location, or file/directory
> permissions.
>
> I did solve the problem -- sort of.  In previous versions of the OS I
> had
> been using an old tarball installation of Firefox which has been
> updating
> itself over the years.  I copied this installation over to my
> usr/local/lib
> directory and the tried to run that version of Firefox and it started up
> immediately without any problems.
>
> So there does seem to be a GTK library problem with the mozillateam
> build,
> At least with this installation of the OS.  I've reported the bug and
> hopefully the Mozilla engineers will be able to track it down.
>
> I appreciate the input from everyone here.
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:09:29 +0100
> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> To: Xubuntu Support and User Discussions
>         <xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>,  "Ubuntu user technical
> support, not
>         for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start
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> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 19:11, Jeffery Small <jeff at cjsa.com> wrote:
>
> > installed the latest version of Firefox from the mozillateam ppa
>
> Why? It's available straight from Mozilla. The closer to the source,
> the better, surely?
>
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:34:01 -0700
> From: jeff at cjsa.com
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start
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> On 19.10.2024 12:09, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 19:11, Jeffery Small <jeff at cjsa.com> wrote:
> >
> >> installed the latest version of Firefox from the mozillateam ppa
> >
> > Why? It's available straight from Mozilla. The closer to the source,
> > the better, surely?
> >
> >
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended
> >
> > --
> > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven
> > Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven at gmail.com
> > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven
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> Liam:
>
> I agree. Using the ubuntuteam ppa was the first article I ran across to
> replace the snap package.  I was just about to remove it and install
> directly from Mozilla itself when I had this idea to try the old tarball
> installation, which worked.  Had that failed, I would have done exactly
> what you suggested, but no need at this point.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Jeffery Small
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:27:00 +0000
> From: Cody Smith <cody.smith at ubuntu.com>
> To: Xubuntu Support and User Discussions
>         <xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start
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> installing from a tarball, it's up to you to keep up to date, not the
> package manager, it's also up to you to keep up with any updated
> dependencies. It's generally easier to stick with even a PPA and just let
> the package manager do the work.
>
> You're one step removed from slackware with the route you went.
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 10:34 PM <jeff at cjsa.com> wrote:
>
> > On 19.10.2024 12:09, Liam Proven wrote:
> > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 19:11, Jeffery Small <jeff at cjsa.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> installed the latest version of Firefox from the mozillateam ppa
> > >
> > > Why? It's available straight from Mozilla. The closer to the source,
> > > the better, surely?
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended
> > >
> > > --
> > > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven
> > > Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven at gmail.com
> > > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven
> > > IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884
> > > Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
> >
> > Liam:
> >
> > I agree. Using the ubuntuteam ppa was the first article I ran across to
> > replace the snap package.  I was just about to remove it and install
> > directly from Mozilla itself when I had this idea to try the old tarball
> > installation, which worked.  Had that failed, I would have done exactly
> > what you suggested, but no need at this point.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Jeffery Small
> >
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