Firefox no longer starts in Slackware 12 after doing updates

AceofSpades19 · 01-29-2008, 12:01 AM

Hi, I'm working on my friends old AMD K6 with 156 mb and a 4 gb harddrive. I installed Slackware 12 on it, because windows 98 stopped working and it works flawlessly with xfce. So I updated it and now firefox no longer works. When I try to start firefox up it comes up with this error
./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 27580 Illegal instruction "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
it doesn't matter what version I use, the original version or the new one or the one from mozilla.com. Does anyone have a solution to this?

shadowsnipes · 01-29-2008, 12:23 AM

How did you update it?

Ideally the new version should be installed to /usr/lib/firefox-VERSION with the symlink at /usr/lib/firefox pointing to that folder.

/usr/bin/firefox should be the output of 'which firefox' and /usr/bin/firefox should be a symlink pointing to /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.

Of course perms are important for these directories.

Try cd'ing to the firefox directory and running it from there (./firefox).

You can also test if there is a problem with your profile by creating another one using the profile manager (run firefox with '-P' switch).

The easiest way to update Firefox in Slackware would be to simply download the newest Slackware package and upgradepkg. I also created a short script to copy over the plugins from the previous installation.

Edit: Here is a link for the newest Slackware Firefox Package as of today

AceofSpades19 · 01-29-2008, 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadowsnipes

How did you update it?

Ideally the new version should be installed to /usr/lib/firefox-VERSION with the symlink at /usr/lib/firefox pointing to that folder.

/usr/bin/firefox should be the output of 'which firefox' and /usr/bin/firefox should be a symlink pointing to /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.

Of course perms are important for these directories.

Try cd'ing to the firefox directory and running it from there (./firefox).

You can also test if there is a problem with your profile by creating another one using the profile manager (run firefox with '-P' switch).

The easiest way to update Firefox in Slackware would be to simply download the newest Slackware package and upgradepkg. I also created a short script to copy over the plugins from the previous installation.

Edit: Here is a link for the newest Slackware Firefox Package as of today

I updated via upgradepkg command in slackware, I have tried it in multiple users. Also I tried downloading the one from mozilla.com and executing that in its untarred directory in one of the users home folders

shadowsnipes · 01-29-2008, 01:03 AM

Are you doing anything unusual in your environment that would cause the shell script to have errors?

"$prog" is set to $MOZ_PROGRAM which should be firefox-bin.

For the untarred firefox in the home directory you ran ./firefox from that directory, right?

AceofSpades19 · 01-29-2008, 01:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadowsnipes

Are you doing anything unusual in your environment that would cause the shell script to have errors?

"$prog" is set to $MOZ_PROGRAM which should be firefox-bin.

For the untarred firefox in the home directory you ran ./firefox from that directory, right?

Well I installed abiword and its dependencies. After that firefox was complaining about no gconf and this present error, so I installed gconf and now I'm stuck on this error
as for your second question yes, I ran ./firefox from that directory

Alien_Hominid · 01-29-2008, 01:31 AM

That's why people who use current need to update whole distro and not separate packages. Can you start /usr/lib/firefox/firefox without using the wrapper in bin?

j-ray · 01-29-2008, 02:17 AM

here's another source of info
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...irefox-153830/

AceofSpades19 · 01-29-2008, 02:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien_Hominid

That's why people who use current need to update whole distro and not separate packages. Can you start /usr/lib/firefox/firefox without using the wrapper in bin?

I'm actually not using current, I updated all the packages that I was supposed to. I'm just trying to make a working system for my friend that just does web browsing, instant messsaging and some word processing that will work for hopefully as long as he has the computer
I tried that command, and it comes up with the same error

AceofSpades19 · 01-29-2008, 02:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j-ray

here's another source of info
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...irefox-153830/

thanks, the odd thing is it was working properly before I did any updates or installed abiword and its depenedencies

AceofSpades19 · 01-29-2008, 11:35 AM

I'm going to try Seamonkey and see if that works, if it does, then I will probably stick with that

AceofSpades19 · 01-29-2008, 12:50 PM

It seems that even Seamonkey won't work, I'm going to try Opera, that should work, if it doesn't I guess I'm back to square one

shadowsnipes · 01-29-2008, 01:38 PM

Did you try using strace as it says to in the thread j-ray linked to?

How did you install abiword, its dependencies, and gconf? Perhaps you should try building and installing them using the slackbuilds at slackbuilds.org.

GCONF slackbuild
abiword slackbuild
The abiword and gconf dependencies are listed on those pages. You can find them by searching slackbuilds.org.

AceofSpades19 · 01-29-2008, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadowsnipes

Did you try using strace as it says to in the thread j-ray linked to?

How did you install abiword, its dependencies, and gconf? Perhaps you should try building and installing them using the slackbuilds at slackbuilds.org.

GCONF slackbuild
abiword slackbuild
The abiword and gconf dependencies are listed on those pages. You can find them by searching slackbuilds.org.

I don't have strace installed on the k6 as of yet. I just installed abiword via the package at linuxpackages.net and I got the dependencies via rpm.pbone.net(used rpm2tgz) and linuxpackages.net, it probably wasn't the best or easiest way but it worked, eventually. I installed gconfd from the dropline gnome packages(I think)
Opera works on it, but I would like to try to get firefox to work on it, I'll install strace and try running it and see what happens

AceofSpades19 · 01-29-2008, 02:19 PM

Ok, I ran strace on it and here is the last bit of the output from it

Code:

waitpid(-1, 0xbfb7408c, WNOHANG)        = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x807b8d0, [], 0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
read(255, "exitcode=$?\n\n## Stop addon scrip"..., 5286) = 91
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
open("/home/kyle/.mozilla/firefox/init.d/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("firefox/init.d/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
stat64("/home/kyle/.mozilla/firefox/init.d/K*", 0xbfb737e4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
stat64("firefox/init.d/K*", 0xbfb737e4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
exit_group(132)                         = ?
Process 30196 detached

it doesn't look like anything in that post j-ray linked me to

shadowsnipes · 01-29-2008, 03:10 PM

did you do the strace on firefox-bin after exporting the paths like the post in the linked thread?

I wonder why it is trying to open firefox/init.d...