On Sun, 30 May 2004 17:44:19 -0700 (PDT), Frank Rehwinkel wrote: > 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. Well, if lock files are involved and you can't seem to track them down, rebooting is a quick way to fix that. Just to add an additional test, have you tried starting firefox in a fresh user account? If that doesn't work either, repeat your removal/reinstallation attempts. But before doing so, enter run-level 1 and make sure you really kill any firefox processes and remove /usr/lib/firefox* before you re-install something. [Yes, I saw that you had tried that already, try again ;)]. Also try removing everything from /tmp, which might be a source of errors. I encountered a similar while reviewing firefox 0.8 packages recently. At one point the only way I could reproduce the symptom was when I forgot to remove /usr/lib/firefox prior to upgrading firefox.
