Browser not opening
 

Hello

My Aspire one has been ok for months but now I cannot open my browser. Saw an answer here but the Firefox file was not there to download.

I'm using Linpus Lite v1.0.13.E

Everything else seems ok but no browser, hence no gmail

Look forward to your replies.

Peter

Try running firefox from the terminal, and then post the output here if you can't work out what's wrong :)

Hi

I typed firefox and pressed enter at the prompt in Terminal, after a short while it went back to the prompt i.e. userLlocalhost ~ $ This keyboard doesn't seem to have square brackets.

If I type run firefox I get bash: run: command not found

Peter

It would just be "firefox" not "run firefox".

Firefox sometimes doesn't shut down properly, preventing it from opening again. This happens in Linux and Windows both.

Put this in the terminal and then try running firefox again.

Hi reed9

Tried that and got 'no process killed'

I've found that if I go into system information> Acer Support site I get a message telling me that 'Firefox is already running'

Hope that helps

Peter

The "already running" message is consistent with what I assumed the problem was. The above should have killed it but apparently not.

Can you post the output of

Right, tried that and got:-

user 9251 0.0 0.0 4192 748 pts/0 S+ 16:17 0.00 grep firefox

I take it that the zeros with a dot in are zeros

Peter

Hmm, well despite saying it's running there's no firefox process shown there. (The line returned is just the command you just entered.)

Try this
And try starting firefox. This is backing up all of your user configurations and local settings and, assuming firefox starts, it will be reset to all its defaults.

Hi

Did that just got the curser back

Peter

Now try starting firefox. There won't be any output from the command. You're just renaming the mozilla folder in your home directory.

Brilliant reed9 browser now working, it's asking me if I want to upgrade to Firefox 3.6

Do I or do I leave well alone?

Peter

No, you won't be able to upgrade that way on Linpus.

If you want to go up to Firefox 3.6, here is a guide.
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/i...spire-one.html

Hi Guys.
Had the same problem as above. This worked a couple of times, but has now stopped working. When try to replace -bak I get asked if I want to overwrite, if I say Y I am told that the the directory is empty.
Responses
1. killall -9 firefox-bin
'no process killed'
2. ps aux | grep firefox
user 4083 0.0 0.0 4188 744 pts/0 S+ 12:49 0:00 grep firefox
3. mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-bak
mv: overwrite '/home/user/.mozilla-bak/.'?
mv: canot move '/home/user/' to '/home/user/.mozilla-bak/.': Device or resource busy
mv: cannot stat 'mozilla': no such file or directory

thanks in advance for you help

Could you copy and paste the exact commands and error codes please? Often it's the little details which might indicate something is wrong :)

As didn't have firefox, couldn't c&P to anything and send it!

I have managed to correct situation by following instructions on another thread and installing 3.6

cheers all