Strange, does mozilla work? Try running locate to find out where the mouse gestures plugin was installed. There may also be a /usr/lib/mozilla-1.6/ directory and maybe even a /usr/lib/mouse-gestures or something like that. On Sun, 30 May 2004 17:44:19 -0700 (PDT), Frank Rehwinkel <redback_frank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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/ > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
