Browser icon not responding on Acer Aspire One Netbook Linux Lite v1.0.13.E
 

Please can you help?
I have been using my Acer Aspire One Netbook, with Linux Lite v1.0.13.E as loaded on purchase, happily for a year or so.
Yesterday, when I clicked on the Browser picture to open up Firefox, nothing happened.
I can't find how to access anything which will let me check if the icon has lost a link.
I have looked on the File Manager and can see the .mozilla folder but don't know what to look for, nor what to do from here.
Many thanks


I have now managed to add the sub-menu which was linked to here:
http://www.laptopmag.com/advice/how-...#axzz1706pmTD3
as a way to Install apps.
I can now use this directory to try and open Firefox Web Browser - I then get the message "Failed to execute default web browser Input/output error.

What happens when you type

in the terminal?

Same Problem=Firefox won't start
 

I have exactly the same problem-same netbook roughly same age, worked fine until yesterday.

I am also looked for startup file but am incredibly rusty on any unix stuff(15- 20yrs ago!). Can see various startup info but am not sure what I am looking for. Everything else seems to be working fine on netbook. So I guess the startup is missing or corrupted.

Help please- with idiot level instructions would be greatly received!

I also have exactly the same problem, I get the loading mouse icon and then nothing. Email and messenger work fine so it cant be a problem with the internet.
Just tried writing firefox in the terminal, but nothing happens.
Strangely I've also had my netbook for just over a year

I have finally got the browser working again by following downloading firefox 3.6 again. I followed these instructions to the letter:

http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/i...spire-one.html

hope that helps!

Wow & Thanks
 

Dear Carla-Marie
Thank you so much - this solved my problem.
This is great.
Tristan Teacher

Error message
 

Have started to follow instructions but terminal working fine. Am following command lines get

Resolving download.mozilla.org.. failed:Temporary failure in name resolution

Seems to have failed to access Mozilla at all=tried both using both en-us and en-GB 3.6.12 version

Any ideas. Help please

We had the same problem the other evening.

Rather than upgrading, installing a new version etc, I first tried running firefox from the command prompt as root - worked fine :-)

So, as root still I ran :-

firefox -profilemanager

I then created a new profile, deleted the "default" profile, and renamed my new profile default.

All sorted :-)

Conclusion was the profile has somehow got screwed (but who knows).

Nige

This helped me immensely, ive pasted it below in case the page ever gets removed.

One thing the browswer is now superceded, I used instead
wget -N "ht tp://download.mozilla.or g/?product=firefox-3.6.13&os=linux&lang=en-GB"





Installing Firefox 3.6 on Aspire One Linux
Acer has interwoven Firefox 2 with the rest of the system, that's why a quite unusual approach is required to install the newest version. The benefit of using an official release is a working update feature, which is disabled in the version already installed on the system.

Press Alt+F2 to show the Run program window. Check Run in terminal, leave the input field blank, and click Run to open a terminal. If you're not familiar with the Linux command line just follow the instructions step by step. The easiest way is to simply paste the commands into the terminal with Ctrl+Shift+V. Most of them will only give feedback if an error occurs.

The first command uses wget to download Firefox 3.6 from an official mirror. You can edit the lang variable at the end, in this case en-US, if you'd like another language. All available languages are listed here, just hover over the download link to get the language code from the status bar.

wget -N "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.6&os=linux&lang=en-US"

The next step extracts the just downloaded file and modifies a link to point to it. In a few cases a connection refused error message may be triggered by sudo, which is not an error but a bug in sudo and can be safely ignored.

sudo tar -jxf firefox-3.6.tar.bz2 --directory /opt
sudo chown user -R /opt/firefox
sudo ln -fs /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

The next step links all plug-ins (not to be confused with extensions) to it.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/* /opt/firefox/plugins

Launch the profile manager using the command below. Create a new profile, name it anything you like and select it. If you want to keep your bookmarks export them via the bookmark manager first. You can then delete the old default profile.

firefox -profilemanager -no-remote

As a bonus you can also change the icon to the official Firefox icon.

sudo sed '/Icon/ s/acs_//' -i /usr/share/applications/linpus-web.desktop

Finally reboot the AA1 to make the desktop aware of the new icon and browser location.

Can I suggest trying a new profile, as I described above, is a little lower impact than installing new versions?

Takes about 3 minutes, and nothing lost if it doesn't fix your problem.

I'm not saying don't upgrade, just I don't believe you _have_ to upgrade if your Acer browser stops working.

Nige

Nigel - Resetting profile...
 

Nigel- Thanks I have been away and therefore just re-united with Linux netbook. Have tried your suggestion. Like you FIREFOX from command prompt did nothing but when I type
firefox -profilemanager. Create new user (took what came on screen) and just called it gillian user then clicked <run firefox> I got google toolbar info appear and sure enough I'm on internet. 3 windows try to open. Window 1= Error 404: Page not found (with fiorefox icon), Window 2=igoogle and Window 3=google toolbar installer Firefox showing. SO went back in and changed gillian user to default. However despite restarting I cannot start the browser from the browser icon on the netbook , but if I go via firefox -profilemananger and create a profile I can get the browser through a google page. Sorry if this is confusing but I think I nearly have a solution. Any ideas please? AT idiot level..

Acer's one here in France as I do not have my setup CD and a total re-load and it isn't available from a really trusted free site so I've read. So ACer tell me to pay nearly 100euros to Acer and send the netbook to them which is both ridiculous and daylight robbery!

Hi Gillian

Did you run the stuff as root?

ie :-
sudo firefox -profilemanager

I then created a new profile, and left the profile manager.
Then, I went back in to profile manager :-
sudo firefox -profilemanager
deleted the "default" profile, and renamed my new profile default.

Now, from the command line it should work normally :-

firefox
should start the browser.

If that works, try clicking on the icon.

If just typing firefox on the command line doesn't work, the icon never will.
If the command line does work, but the icon doesn't, then you'll need to read back through this thread and fix the icon properties.

Hope this helps.

Nige

Thanks to you both
 

Thanks Nigel, your suggestion of creating a new profile and getting rid of the screwed one worked for me...and thanks gillian...i've started my lessons in linux from both of your conversation. I have added two you as my friend....please find my post regarding problem of downloading/updating/live update...titled "four questions..."
any suggestion?

How to create a profile manager?
 

Greetings,

I am in the terminal but do not know how to create a profile? I ran

sudo firefox -profilemanager

and after the text that appears what do I type in?

Thanks.

Well, what should happen after the sudo firefox command is a small window should appear.

It sounds like that didn't happen for you?

You'll need to give us a clue what the "text" says ...
(sounds like there's something else going on)

Nige

Thanks. I am trying to help a friend (living overseas) who has an Acer Aspire One (3 yrs old/ exact model not known) that has the the Acer linux 'light' OS.

I was able on my Acer One with Mint installed create a new Firefox account and delete the old one, but on my friend's netbook, when she types in

sudo firefox -profilemanager

a bunch of code apprears, not the Create New Account pop-up window.

I have asked my friend to send me the code and once I get it I will post it here.

By the way on my netbook

sudo firefox -profilemanager

asked me for a password --unknown--

but when I simply typed

firefox -profilemanager

the Create Account pop up window appeared.

THANKS!

Update on Acer Model Number
 

Greetings,

This is my friend's Acer model number.

Acer Aspire One AOA110-1113 Blue Intel Atom N270(1.60GHz) 8.9" 512MB (upgraded to 1GB) Memory 8GB SSD Netbook

It works great and is extremely fast... but no internet access through Firefox.

We are communicating via Skype. Skype is working fine.

Thanks again.

Waiting for code..
 

Greetings,

As soon as I get the text that appears on my friend's computer, I will post it here.

Thanks.

New Problem
 

For whatever reason, the terminal is locked. When my friend tries typing in the terminal, nothing happens. No text appears.

How does one unlock a terminal?

Somehow when she entered
sudo firefox -profilemanager

she may have typed something else or some other keys. Additionally, her webcam is no longer working... If she was in Windows, I would suspect a virus...

The OS is linpus linux. If everything else fails, we will install Ubuntu 10. The hard part will be to find an external DVD player...

THANKS!

One more problem
 

She noticed that if the changes the language to chinese, the characters/letters appear in the terminal, but if she changes the language to english, no characters/letters appear.

Help!

When you let us know what the "text" that appears was, and when you give us a clue what else she typed, we might stand a (slim) chance of being able to help.

Apart from that, I'd say wipe it and start again - that way you'll know the root password too.

Nige

Thanks for the reply
 

The most pressing problem right now is that when she types anything in the terminal, nothing happens. the rectangular cursor box does not move. No text is visible.

Interestingly, when she changes the language to Chinese, using the language options at the bottom right of the netbook, Chinese characters appear in the terminal window(vertical format). This, I assume, means that the terminal is not locked.

If she then changes the language back to English, once again, she can type nothing into the terminal.

As you suggested, our next option will be to reinstall the OS. She will probably install Ubuntu 10.4. (She has an Ubuntu CD.) Hopefully, Ubuntu can be installed with little or no problems. I have installed it on my laptop with no problems.

I have the original Linpus Linux installation disc here in the US but to send the CD and an external drive by 'safe' mail, e.g., Fedex, to Cebu, will cost a considerable amount of money.

If anybody known what's happening and how to resolve it, your assistance will be greatly appreciated.

THANKS!

Pat

firefox -profilemanager

does not seem to work on the newest version of firefox, I downgraded back to 3.6.16 and it works fine.

Is there an alternative cmd?

Same problem as previous users - no response on Browser icon. I have tried a new profile as per NigelBarker. Now from profile manager clicking "Start Firefox" works fine. But from the command line and from the icon I get an error message to the effect that Firefox is already running, so restart etc. Any ideas?

I found this fix from "tur_third" on thread "firefox browser is not responding or running".

Open 'File Manager'
Under 'view' tick show hidden files
Rename .mozilla to say .mozillaold
You should now be able to get on the internet via Firefox (however you will have lost your favourites)

Like he says the favourites are gone but small price to pay as the browser now works from the icon. Many thanks