firefox not displaying pages, konqueror and seamonkey fine
 

Hi again,

The subject line pretty much says it all. This is a vanilla slack 14.2 64bit system. Firefox was working fine until a day or so ago. I have tried a new profile with no luck. Pages seem to load but nothing is displayed. SeaMonkey works fine as does Konqueror. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Brian

So two inexplicable problems, both happening since a few days ago. What is your recollection of things you changed on that computer a few days ago (installed packages, changed configurations, ...)?

I see in this thread that you recently upgraded.

Maybe something was not done according to the upgrading instructions. Among the things to check:

• Did you install all new packages?
• Did you remove all obsolete ones?
• Did you take care of all the .new files installed in the upgrade process?

If you kept your old $HOME, create a new user and see if the issue persists with this one.

Thanks for the reply.

I did not upgrade/install anything new over the past couple of weeks. I did run an upgrade this morning to see if that would help but no dice. I have discovered some old packages which I am in the process of deleting but they were there when firefox was working.

Brian

Now the system is perfectly clean except for 5 SBO packages and two alien packages, and I'm still having the firefox problem.

Brian

- tried with new user, still failed
- removed and then reinstalled firefox, still failed
- no .new files

Weird, huh?

Did you create a new user?

I am not sure that the issue be related to your recent upgrade, but as an aside I find easier, faster and less error prone to backup all I want to keep and make a fresh installation of the new Slackware version then restore the backup than upgrading.

Rebooting seemed to solve it. What is this, windows ;-)

Thanks to Eric and Didier for your assistance.

Brian

BCarey --

I am curious ... do you boot to runlevel 3 or 4 ?

I boot to runlevel 3 myself and then invoke startx from the commandline to run KDE.

I am not sure all this was necessary but ...

I exited out of KDE back to the runlevel 3 commandline to install dbus-glib-0.106-x86_64-1 and dbus-glib-compat32-0.106-x86_64-1compat32

And then I rebooted because my /usr/bin/dbus-daemon processes pre-dated my new dbus-glib-0.106-x86_64-1 and dbus-glib-compat32-0.106-x86_64-1compat32 packages ...

Yes, Lennart won't be done with Linux until all my servers run the same as his personal Laptops :)

-- kjh

I boot to runlevel 3.

Another 'just curious' question ...

Are your KDE Icons back now that you've rebooted ?

-- kjh

I actually had already deleted my .kde directory and restarted it so I'm back to the default. Nothing has disappeared yet.

Brian