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06-26-2010, 05:15 AM
#1
LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2006
Distribution: Slackware 14.1 64-bit
Posts: 28
Rep:
upgradepkg worked; now Firefox won't start
Edit: This problem started when I accidentally used a 64-bit package to upgrade my 32-bit system.
Hi, all. Thanks in advance for your help!
I upgraded Firefox, and now it won't start. I don't know where to find any relevant error messages. How do I figure out what's wrong?
I downloaded the Firefox update from
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar..._slack13.0.txz and installed it with the command
Code:
su -c "upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz"
The result was as follows:
Code:
+==============================================================================
| Upgrading mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-i686-1 package using ./mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-i686-1.txz
+==============================================================================
Pre-installing package mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-i686-1...
Removing package /var/log/packages/mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-i686-1-upgraded-2010-06-26,02:47:09...
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/.autoreg
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/README.txt
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/Throbber-small.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/application.ini
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/blocklist.xml
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/browserconfig.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/browser.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/browser.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/classic.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/classic.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/comm.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/comm.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/en-US.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/en-US.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/icons/default/default32.png
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/pippki.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/pippki.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/reporter.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/reporter.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/toolkit.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/toolkit.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/FeedConverter.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/FeedProcessor.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/FeedWriter.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/NetworkGeolocationProvider.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/WebContentConverter.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/aboutCertError.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/aboutPrivateBrowsing.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/aboutRights.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/aboutRobots.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/aboutSessionRestore.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/browser.xpt
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/fuelApplication.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/jsconsole-clhandler.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/libbrowsercomps.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/libbrowserdirprovider.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/libdbusservice.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/libimgicon.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/libmozgnome.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/libnkgnomevfs.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsAddonRepository.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsBadCertHandler.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsBlocklistService.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsBrowserGlue.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsContentDispatchChooser.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsContentPrefService.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsDefaultCLH.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsDownloadManagerUI.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsExtensionManager.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsFilePicker.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsHandlerService.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsHelperAppDlg.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsLivemarkService.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsLoginInfo.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsLoginManager.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsLoginManagerPrompter.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsMicrosummaryService.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsPlacesDBFlush.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsPlacesTransactionsService.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsPrivateBrowsingService.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsProxyAutoConfig.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsSafebrowsingApplication.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsSearchService.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsSearchSuggestions.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsSessionStartup.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsSessionStore.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsSetDefaultBrowser.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsSidebar.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsTaggingService.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsTryToClose.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsURLFormatter.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsUpdateService.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsUrlClassifierLib.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsUrlClassifierListManager.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/nsWebHandlerApp.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/pluginGlue.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/storage-Legacy.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/storage-mozStorage.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/components/txEXSLTRegExFunctions.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/crashreporter
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/crashreporter-override.ini
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/crashreporter.ini
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/pref/firefox-branding.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/pref/firefox-l10n.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/pref/firefox.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/pref/reporter.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/profile/bookmarks.html
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/profile/chrome/userChrome-example.css
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/profile/chrome/userContent-example.css
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/profile/localstore.rdf
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/profile/mimeTypes.rdf
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/profile/prefs.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries/en-US.aff
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries/en-US.dic
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/install.rdf
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox-bin
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/firefox.orig
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/greprefs/all.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/greprefs/security-prefs.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/greprefs/xpinstall.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/icons/document.png
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/icons/mozicon128.png
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/icons/mozicon16.xpm
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/icons/mozicon50.xpm
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/icons/updater.png
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libfreebl3.chk
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libfreebl3.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libmozjs.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libnspr4.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libnss3.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libnssckbi.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libnssdbm3.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libnssutil3.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libplc4.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libplds4.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libsmime3.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libsoftokn3.chk
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libsoftokn3.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libsqlite3.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libssl3.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libxpcom.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/libxul.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/DownloadLastDir.jsm
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/DownloadUtils.jsm
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/ISO8601DateUtils.jsm
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/Microformats.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/PlacesDBUtils.jsm
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/PluralForm.jsm
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/SpatialNavigation.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/WindowDraggingUtils.jsm
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/debug.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/distribution.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/utils.js
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/mozilla-xremote-client
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/old-homepage-default.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/platform.ini
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/plugins/libnullplugin.so
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/removed-files
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/EditorOverride.css
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/arrow.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/arrowd.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/broken-image.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/charsetData.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/charsetalias.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/contenteditable.css
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/designmode.css
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/dtd/mathml.dtd
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/dtd/xhtml11.dtd
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/fonts/mathfont.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/fonts/mathfontSTIXNonUnicode.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/fonts/mathfontSTIXSize1.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/fonts/mathfontStandardSymbolsL.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/fonts/mathfontUnicode.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/forms.css
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/grabber.gif
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--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/html/folder.png
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/langGroups.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/language.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/loading-image.gif
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--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/svg.css
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-add-column-after-active.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-add-column-after-hover.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-add-column-after.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-add-column-before-active.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-add-column-before-hover.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-add-column-before.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-add-row-after-active.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-add-row-after-hover.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-add-row-after.gif
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--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-add-row-before-hover.gif
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--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-remove-column-hover.gif
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--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-remove-row-hover.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/table-remove-row.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/ua.css
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/unixcharset.properties
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--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/run-mozilla.sh
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/searchplugins/amazondotcom.xml
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--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/searchplugins/yahoo.xml
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/update.locale
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/updater
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/updater.ini
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/updates/0/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/updates/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/searchplugins/
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--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/res/
WARNING: Unique directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/plugins/ contains new files
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/modules/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/icons/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/greprefs/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/extensions/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/dictionaries/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/profile/chrome/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/defaults/profile/
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--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/chrome/
WARNING: Unique directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.2/ contains new files
Verifying package mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-i686-1.txz.
Installing package mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-i686-1.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# mozilla-firefox (Mozilla Firefox Web browser)
#
# This project is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component written
# using the XUL user interface language. Firefox empowers you to
# browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other
# browser.
#
# Visit the Mozilla Firefox project online:
# http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
#
Executing install script for mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-i686-1.txz.
Package mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-i686-1.txz installed.
Package mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-i686-1 upgraded with new package ./mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-i686-1.txz.
I started up fluxbox and selected firefox from the menu, and there was no response. I have attached a capture of the command entered in xterm. Here is the output for
Code:
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:00 init
2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd
3 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
5 ? 00:00:00 migration/1
6 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/1
7 ? 00:00:00 events/0
8 ? 00:00:00 events/1
9 ? 00:00:00 work_on_cpu/0
10 ? 00:00:00 work_on_cpu/1
11 ? 00:00:00 khelper
183 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
184 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/1
186 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
187 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_notify
290 ? 00:00:00 ata/0
291 ? 00:00:00 ata/1
292 ? 00:00:00 ata_aux
293 ? 00:00:00 ksuspend_usbd
299 ? 00:00:00 khubd
302 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
330 ? 00:00:00 khpsbpkt
361 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
362 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
363 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
410 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
411 ? 00:00:00 aio/1
428 ? 00:00:00 nfsiod
437 ? 00:00:00 jfsIO
438 ? 00:00:00 jfsCommit
439 ? 00:00:00 jfsCommit
440 ? 00:00:00 jfsSync
447 ? 00:00:00 xfs_mru_cache
448 ? 00:00:00 xfslogd/0
449 ? 00:00:00 xfslogd/1
450 ? 00:00:00 xfsdatad/0
451 ? 00:00:00 xfsdatad/1
452 ? 00:00:00 glock_workqueue
453 ? 00:00:00 glock_workqueue
1191 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tgtd/0
1192 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tgtd/1
1206 ? 00:00:00 iscsi_eh
1215 ? 00:00:00 fc_rport_eq
1216 ? 00:00:00 fcoethread/0
1217 ? 00:00:00 fcoethread/1
1292 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
1295 ? 00:00:01 scsi_eh_3
1319 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_4
1322 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_5
1336 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_6
1341 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_7
1346 ? 00:00:00 exec-osm/0
1347 ? 00:00:00 exec-osm/1
1353 ? 00:00:00 block-osm/0
1354 ? 00:00:00 block-osm/1
1364 ? 00:00:00 knodemgrd_0
1408 ? 00:00:00 kstriped
1410 ? 00:00:00 ksnapd
1414 ? 00:00:00 hid_compat
1440 ? 00:00:00 rpciod/0
1441 ? 00:00:00 rpciod/1
1447 ? 00:00:00 kjournald2
1474 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_8
1475 ? 00:00:00 usb-storage
1512 ? 00:00:00 udevd
2796 ? 00:00:00 hd-audio0
2797 ? 00:00:00 phy0
3033 ? 00:00:00 kjournald2
3034 ? 00:00:00 kjournald2
3038 ? 00:00:00 mount.ntfs-3g
3081 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
3085 ? 00:00:00 klogd
3134 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd
3208 ? 00:00:00 inetd
3221 ? 00:00:00 sshd
3228 ? 00:00:00 acpid
3239 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
3244 ? 00:00:00 hald
3245 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
3273 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-inpu
3277 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
3278 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
3280 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
3282 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
3284 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
3294 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
3318 ? 00:00:00 crond
3320 ? 00:00:00 atd
3368 ? 00:00:00 gpm
3370 tty1 00:00:00 bash
3371 tty2 00:00:00 bash
3372 tty3 00:00:00 agetty
3373 tty4 00:00:00 agetty
3374 tty5 00:00:00 agetty
3375 tty6 00:00:00 agetty
3399 tty1 00:00:00 startx
3415 tty1 00:00:00 xinit
3416 tty7 00:01:19 X
3428 tty1 00:00:01 fluxbox
3474 ? 00:00:00 mozilla
3490 ? 00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh
3495 ? 00:03:38 seamonkey-bin
7615 tty2 00:00:00 ps
Last edited by BrutalMusic; 06-27-2010 at 03:51 AM .
Reason: Added the first line to better describe the problem.
06-26-2010, 06:28 AM
#2
LQ Veteran
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 7,803
I'm going to guess that something got hosed either on the download or the install. If I were in your shoes, I'd use removepkg to uninstall firefox and then install a newly downloaded version. Be sure to check the md5sum to see that the download didn't get garbled. By the way, you may want to consider using slackpkg to do your updates. It automatically checks that the download is good.
06-27-2010, 02:54 AM
#3
LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2006
Distribution: Slackware 14.1 64-bit
Posts: 28
Original Poster
Rep:
Thanks for your quick response, Hangdog.
Summary: I uninstalled the updated version, installed an older version, and I'm still having the same problem -- Firefox doesn't start.
Hopefully it's irrelevant, but before I updated Firefox, I also updated bind with the file at
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar..._slack13.0.txz
The details on what I've done since my last post:
I checked the md5sum on the aforementioned file
mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz as well as on the install file for a previous version, downloaded from
http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/sla...5.2-i686-1.txz . All the md5sums look good.
I used the command
su -c "removepkg mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz" and got the following output:
Code:
Removing package /var/log/packages/mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-i686-1...
Removing files:
--> Deleting symlink /usr/bin/firefox
--> Deleting symlink /usr/lib/firefox
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/.autoreg
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/LICENSE
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/README.txt
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/Throbber-small.gif
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/application.ini
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/blocklist.xml
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/browserconfig.properties
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/browser.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/browser.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/classic.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/classic.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/comm.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/comm.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/en-US.jar
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/en-US.manifest
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/icons/default/default32.png
--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
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--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/reporter.jar
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--> Deleting /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/dictionaries/en-US.aff
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--> /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/extensions/ no longer exists. Skipping.
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--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/icons/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/dictionaries/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/defaults/profile/chrome/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/defaults/profile/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/defaults/pref/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/defaults/autoconfig/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/defaults/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/components/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/icons/default/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/icons/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/chrome/
--> Deleting empty directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.4/
Then I used the command
su -c "installpkg mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-i686-1.txz" and got the following output:
Code:
Verifying package mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-i686-1.txz.
Installing package mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-i686-1.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# mozilla-firefox (Mozilla Firefox Web browser)
#
# This project is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component written
# using the XUL user interface language. Firefox empowers you to
# browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other
# browser.
#
# Visit the Mozilla Firefox project online:
# http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
#
Executing install script for mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-i686-1.txz.
Package mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-i686-1.txz installed.
I'm still getting the same lack of response when I try to start Firefox from within fluxbox. I've tried opening it in blackbox as well -- same lack of response.
06-27-2010, 03:04 AM
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Hmm, that's embarrassing, and likely how this mess started...
The file I used for the initial upgradepkg was mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-x86_64 -1_slack13.0.txz . I'm running on 32-bit Slackware 13.0.
06-27-2010, 04:18 AM
#5
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I tried updating Firefox with slackpkg . The upgrade command found that I had "a broken /var/log/packages - with two versions of the same package " -- I had two versions of Adobe acrobat installed. After removing the older version, slackpkg updated firefox.
Firefox still doesn't open.
06-27-2010, 06:20 AM
#6
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Location: Maryland
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Quote:
The file I used for the initial upgradepkg was mozilla-firefox-3.6.4-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz. I'm running on 32-bit Slackware 13.0.
Well, that would certainly would explain why Firefox wasn't running.
Quote:
I tried updating Firefox with slackpkg. The upgrade command found that I had "a broken /var/log/packages - with two versions of the same package" -- I had two versions of Adobe acrobat installed. After removing the older version, slackpkg updated firefox.
Firefox still doesn't open.
I'd take a look at your packages and make sure you don't have any other 64 bit packages installed by mistake (ls /var/log/packages | grep 64). I'd also try starting firefox from the command line and see if it complains about anything.
06-27-2010, 07:38 AM
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That's odd. I believe you should get some kind of error when you tried to run a 64bit program on a 32bit system. I'm sure I recall correctly, but I tried something similar and thought I got some executable error of some sort.
06-27-2010, 01:48 PM
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Dinithion:
I guess it's subject to the package one is installing. I'm happy to hear that at least some of the packages warn about this. But I expect I won't have the chance to make the same mistake if I use
slackpkg from here on out.
Hangdog:
That's the only 64-bit package that I've installed.
ls /var/log/packages|grep 64 yielded only
xf86-video-mach64-6.8.2-i486-1 .
I tried the commands
firefox and
/usr/bin/firefox in an xterm window within fluxbox, with no response. I have attached a screencap of that. Afterward, I typed
ps -e , which shows that there aren't any instances of firefox running as a result:
Code:
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:00 init
2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd
3 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
5 ? 00:00:00 migration/1
6 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/1
7 ? 00:00:00 events/0
8 ? 00:00:00 events/1
9 ? 00:00:00 work_on_cpu/0
10 ? 00:00:00 work_on_cpu/1
11 ? 00:00:00 khelper
183 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
184 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/1
186 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
187 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_notify
290 ? 00:00:00 ata/0
291 ? 00:00:00 ata/1
292 ? 00:00:00 ata_aux
293 ? 00:00:00 ksuspend_usbd
299 ? 00:00:00 khubd
302 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
330 ? 00:00:00 khpsbpkt
361 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
362 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
363 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
410 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
411 ? 00:00:00 aio/1
428 ? 00:00:00 nfsiod
437 ? 00:00:00 jfsIO
438 ? 00:00:00 jfsCommit
439 ? 00:00:00 jfsCommit
440 ? 00:00:00 jfsSync
447 ? 00:00:00 xfs_mru_cache
448 ? 00:00:00 xfslogd/0
449 ? 00:00:00 xfslogd/1
450 ? 00:00:00 xfsdatad/0
451 ? 00:00:00 xfsdatad/1
452 ? 00:00:00 glock_workqueue
453 ? 00:00:00 glock_workqueue
1191 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tgtd/0
1192 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tgtd/1
1206 ? 00:00:00 iscsi_eh
1215 ? 00:00:00 fc_rport_eq
1216 ? 00:00:00 fcoethread/0
1217 ? 00:00:00 fcoethread/1
1292 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
1295 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_3
1319 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_4
1322 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_5
1336 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_6
1341 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_7
1346 ? 00:00:00 exec-osm/0
1347 ? 00:00:00 exec-osm/1
1353 ? 00:00:00 block-osm/0
1354 ? 00:00:00 block-osm/1
1364 ? 00:00:00 knodemgrd_0
1408 ? 00:00:00 kstriped
1410 ? 00:00:00 ksnapd
1414 ? 00:00:00 hid_compat
1440 ? 00:00:00 rpciod/0
1441 ? 00:00:00 rpciod/1
1447 ? 00:00:00 kjournald2
1474 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_8
1475 ? 00:00:00 usb-storage
1512 ? 00:00:00 udevd
2814 ? 00:00:00 hd-audio0
2818 ? 00:00:00 phy0
3052 ? 00:00:00 kjournald2
3053 ? 00:00:00 kjournald2
3057 ? 00:00:00 mount.ntfs-3g
3100 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
3104 ? 00:00:00 klogd
3153 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd
3227 ? 00:00:00 inetd
3241 ? 00:00:00 sshd
3248 ? 00:00:00 acpid
3259 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
3264 ? 00:00:00 hald
3265 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
3293 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-inpu
3297 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
3298 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
3300 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
3302 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
3304 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
3314 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
3338 ? 00:00:00 crond
3340 ? 00:00:00 atd
3384 ? 00:00:00 gpm
3386 tty1 00:00:00 bash
3387 tty2 00:00:00 agetty
3388 tty3 00:00:00 agetty
3389 tty4 00:00:00 agetty
3390 tty5 00:00:00 agetty
3391 tty6 00:00:00 agetty
3419 tty1 00:00:00 startx
3435 tty1 00:00:00 xinit
3436 tty7 00:00:11 X
3448 tty1 00:00:00 fluxbox
3473 ? 00:00:00 mozilla
3489 ? 00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh
3494 ? 00:00:39 seamonkey-bin
3507 ? 00:00:00 xterm
3509 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
3601 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
I tried typing
firefox into the terminal, and it didn't complain, either. No "Error: no display specified" or anything.
Thanks so much for the help you've already given!
I've been playing with
slackpkg to see if updating the system might help.
First, I blacklisted
kernel-modules ,
kernel-modules-smp ,
kernel-source ,
kernel-headers ,
kernel-generic ,
kernel-generic-smp ,
kernel-huge ,
kernel-huge-smp ,
openoffice.org , and
lyx .
Then I used the command
slackpkg remove firefox .
Then I used the command
slackpkg clean-system , which didn't find anything to remove.
Then I ran
slackpkg upgrade-all and chose to overwrite the old configuration files with the new ones.
Then I used
slackpkg install-new , which installed Firefox.
Firefox still doesn't work, though.
Last edited by BrutalMusic; 06-27-2010 at 01:52 PM .
Reason: Added info about typing firefox into terminal
06-28-2010, 06:51 AM
#9
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Location: Maryland
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 7,803
Quote:
That's the only 64-bit package that I've installed. ls /var/log/packages|grep 64 yielded only xf86-video-mach64-6.8.2-i486-1.
That isn't a 64 bit package, it just has 64 in the name. All of Slackware's 64 bit packages have x86_64 at the end of the package name.
Hm. Time to do a little fishing.
Look in ~/.mozilla/firefox and see if there are any crash reports.
In fact, you might just move or delete ~/.mozilla and see if that helps. It could be trying to start 64 bit firefox hosed something up. Be aware this would affect the customizations you did on all mozilla programs, so maybe renaming it is the safest thing for now.
If you enter
which firefo x in the console, what is returned?
If you start firefox by using that path (so use /path/to/firefox instead of just firefox) does anything change?
Did you do a full install of Slackware? Was it a clean install or an upgrade?
Is /usr/lib64 a directory on your system? If so, delete it and try again.
06-28-2010, 02:01 PM
#10
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Distribution: Slackware 14.1 64-bit
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Ha! Success! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Hangdog!
In case anyone else makes this silly mistake, here's what fixed it:
I used userdel to delete a user account I don't use and deleted that account's folder from /home/ . There is now only one user account remaining that I created on my system.
slocate shows that the only occurrence of '.mozilla/firefox ' is within my user account.
I renamed ~/.mozilla/firefox/ to ~/.mozilla/firefox.bak/
I typed slackpkg remove firefox , then slackpkg update , then slackpkg install firefox , which installed version 3.6.6 (rather than 3.6.5, which was the current version a few days ago).
And in case anyone's interested, here are the answers to the other questions Hangdog posed:
The CrashReports folder offered up a txt file with a cryptic number. which firefox returned /usr/bin/firefox , and typing that into xterm got the usual lack of response. It was a full, clean install of Slackware 13.0, and I have not upgraded the kernel. /usr/lib64 was not on my system.
Last edited by BrutalMusic; 06-28-2010 at 02:06 PM .
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