> From: Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: firefox lockups after update > Vincent Onelli writes: > > > I tried all suggestions, firefox is still not load it appears as if try, > > the "starting firefox ..." appears at the bottom of screen for few > > seconds and then disappears. So it is time to do a full installation? I > > will wait while just in case there may be some new idea to try. > > Thanks to all of you. > > This shouldn't be this difficult to troubleshoot. > > Step 1: > > touch /forefsck > shutdown -r now > > This reboots Fedora. Upon reboot, all your partitions auto-fscked. This > should fix any filesystem corruption that might result in application > failures, like Firefox. > > Step 2: > > rpm -e firefox > yum install firefox > > This removes and reinstalls Firefox, which would fix any unlikely > application corruption. > > If Firefox still fails to start up: > > Step 3: > > mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.save > > This removes -- renames actually -- the Firefox configuration directory. The > next time Firefox starts, it will create an empty, default, configuration. > If Firefox now runs, you had a problem with a corrupted/bad configuration. > You, of course, will lose all your bookmarks and extensions. If this fixes > your problem, you can later try to recover to salvage and recover whatever > your can, from your saved configuration directory. > > If Firefox still fails to load, there are only two possibilities: > > A. You're hitting a bone-fide bug in Firefox, for some reason. > > B. Somehow, some unknown system libraries got corrupted. > > You may be able to obtain some clues by running "firefox" from a terminal > window, which would dump any errors that Firefox barfs to standard output or > standard error, which you would not ordinary see when starting Firefox from > the desktop. > Step 1, and 2 did not work, but step 3 did, firefox restored! By the way running firefox from terminal worked too and it did not showed any error. This is great, you guys saved me a lot of reinstallation time. Thank you so much to every body for helping me. Vinny -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
