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Old 07-27-2017, 11:28 AM   #1
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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
 
Old 07-27-2017, 12:02 PM   #2
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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, ...)?
 
Old 07-27-2017, 12:40 PM   #3
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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.

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Old 07-27-2017, 12:49 PM   #4
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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
 
Old 07-27-2017, 12:53 PM   #5
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Now the system is perfectly clean except for 5 SBO packages and two alien packages, and I'm still having the firefox problem.

Brian
 
Old 07-27-2017, 01:00 PM   #6
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- tried with new user, still failed
- removed and then reinstalled firefox, still failed
- no .new files

Weird, huh?
 
Old 07-27-2017, 01:01 PM   #7
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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.

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Old 07-27-2017, 05:59 PM   #8
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Rebooting seemed to solve it. What is this, windows ;-)

Thanks to Eric and Didier for your assistance.

Brian
 
Old 07-28-2017, 06:17 AM   #9
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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

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Old 07-28-2017, 10:12 AM   #10
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I boot to runlevel 3.
 
Old 07-28-2017, 11:24 AM   #11
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Another 'just curious' question ...

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

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Old 07-29-2017, 11:01 AM   #12
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I actually had already deleted my .kde directory and restarted it so I'm back to the default. Nothing has disappeared yet.

Brian
 
  


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