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cdwijs

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Registered: 2010-04-24

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[solved]firefox does not start anymore: (firefox:4358): Bonobo-WARNING

Hi All,

Firefox has always worked on the laptop of my girfrind, until yesterday. When I run firefox from the command line I get the following message, and firefox does not start.

ingeborg@laptop:/storage/home/ingeborg$ firefox

(firefox:4358): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use
ingeborg@laptop:/storage/home/ingeborg$

Versions:

ingeborg@laptop:/storage/home/ingeborg$ firefox -v
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.12, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org
$ uname -a
Linux laptop 2.6.35-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 30 19:57:05 UTC 2010 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6670 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

When I move .mozilla, firefox starts without problem, so there must be something wrong with the information in ~/.mozilla:

$ mv .mozilla/ .mozilla-moved
ingeborg@laptop:~$ firefox

(firefox:4852): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use

(firefox:4852): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use

(firefox:4852): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use
ingeborg@laptop:~$

Any Idea's how I can figure out what file is causing this problem in .mozilla?
What does code 4358 and 4852 from firefox mean?

Best regards,
Cedric

Last edited by cdwijs (2011-01-03 12:05:23)

Mr Green

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Re: [solved]firefox does not start anymore: (firefox:4358): Bonobo-WARNING

Try updating your system see if that helps

Last edited by Mr Green (2011-01-01 11:43:24)

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Re: [solved]firefox does not start anymore: (firefox:4358): Bonobo-WARNING

What does code 4358 and 4852 from firefox mean?

Those are the pids (process id's) of the firefox processes.

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cdwijs

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Registered: 2010-04-24

Posts: 289

Re: [solved]firefox does not start anymore: (firefox:4358): Bonobo-WARNING

Hi All,

I have solved the problem. It turns out firefox does not like a toolbar from zynga. I have removed the following directory:
~/.mozilla/firefox/2igicc8v.default/extensions/{7b13ec3e-999a-4b70-b9cb-2617b8323822}

Let's see howto reproduce this.

Best regards,
Cedric

cdwijs

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Registered: 2010-04-24

Posts: 289

Re: [solved]firefox does not start anymore: (firefox:4358): Bonobo-WARNING

I have reproduced the problem:

1)Move (or remove) ~/.mozilla
2)goto this website : http://toolbar.zynga.com/install/farmville/
3)login with a valid facebook acount
4)Click install, and then click allow, install now, restart namoraka, restart, finish, and then click save and quit.

Now firefox does not start anymore.

Is it usefull when I make a tar file of .mozilla and post it here?

Best regards,
Cedric