Just put FC2 on a second machine at home. It's great. Kudoes to the developers and testers. For days, I've had firefox installed and running fine. I had used apt and synaptic to get/install the package. Firefox was made the default gnome browser. All good. Very good. Today I decided to load some plugins. I added about eight search plugins and the mouse gestures plugin. All as a regular user (i.e. not root). There was one error message that popped to the screen during the mouse gestures install which I think had to do with not being able to write or create to a file. I didn't note the error, thinking the install would just be aborted. The next popup indicated the install had completed successfully. So, wondering if it had or had not installed properly, I closed my firefox program and tried to start it back up. But it won't start. The symptom, when typing firefox in a shell, is that after a few seconds, it ends. Nothing writen to stdout or stderr. Nothing pops up. No new process created. If I try to start it from the gnome panel, a see a "Starting Web browser" window being created, but after a few seconds it disappears. I've uninstalled firefox, and reinstalled it, to no avail. I searched for a ~/.firefox directory. One didn't exist. I've moved the ~/.mozilla directory out of the way and the ~/.phoenix directory out of the way, still no good. I uninstalled firefox again, and moved the /usr/lib/firefox directory out of the way. And reinstalled firefox. Still no good. I moved /usr/lib/mozilla out of the way, and still firefox just returns immediately. I have not tried rebooting, but as this isn't Windows, I wouldn't expect that to help. What file/directory am I missing? Or what package dependancy have I broken by uninstalling firefox and reinstalling (all via synaptic)? I may have made the problem worse during this debugging because firefox won't start under my root login any longer either. But admittedly I had installed the mouse gesture plugin there too, but at least saw it work once as root. That install didn't cause a file/directory failure message to be printed. I did not install the search plugins as root though. Now after the uninstall/reinstall. Even root can't get firefox to do anything. -stuck __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
