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Out of the blue Firefox(v42) refuses to start and presented "Firefox profile cannot be loaded.It is missing or inaccessible".
I checked .mozilla and the profile is there and the profiles.ini specifies the profile as default.
I've tried
firefox -P
firefox -p /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>And the profilemanager would not start,and it reported the same error specifying the full path to the profile.
As well as renaming .mozilla,and starting firefox again to generate a new profile.
Additionally derivatives of firefox (icecat,iceweasel,palemoon) all report the same issue.
I've checked the permissions/ownership and nothing is off
No packages have been updated prior to or after this error has come up.
Edit: Upgrading to V43 results in the same issue.
Last edited by alexasan55 (2015-12-28 02:21:10)
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Still having this issue.Furthermore using my profile within sandfox,works as expected.But brings new issues within the sandbox.
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Really not sure, might want to make a backup of your mozilla profiles for later recovery efforts. Delete relevant directories from ~/ and reinstall firefox fresh. Your post is lacking so many things by way of useful info that'd it'd take too much effort to ask for that info.
What you're experiencing is odd, have zero problems with firefox. Not the one from the Arch repo's not the 64bit version downloaded from Mozilla and symlinked + created a separate profile for it to use. Running it from a hidden directory in home. Firefox has been updating disturbingly often lately. Know there's been 2 perhaps 3 come out over the last couple dys. Currently using FF v 43.0.1, experiencing no problems w it on xfce4. Had zero problems with earlier versions on Arch.
Edit: Oops, did notice something, your profile should be enclosed in quotes. ie: I create a profile called buzzkill using the mozilla profile manager. Would specify using that specific profile as follows.
firefox -P "buzzkill"
Last edited by Archforum101 (2015-12-22 07:20:18)
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Really not sure, might want to make a backup of your mozilla profiles for later recovery efforts. Delete relevant directories from ~/ and reinstall firefox fresh. Your post is lacking so many things by way of useful info that'd it'd take too much effort to ask for that info.
There are currently no profiles in the .mozilla after a fresh install.My profiles are backed up to a different location.
What information is missing? I've documented what the issue is and how i attempted to fix it.Claiming there is "too much missing info" isnt really helpful in the slightest.
What you're experiencing is odd, have zero problems with firefox. Not the one from the Arch repo's not the 64bit version downloaded from Mozilla and symlinked + created a separate profile for it to use. Running it from a hidden directory in home. Firefox has been updating disturbingly often lately. Know there's been 2 perhaps 3 come out over the last couple dys. Currently using FF v 43.0.1, experiencing no problems w it on xfce4. Had zero problems with earlier versions on Arch.
The error came without updating firefox. I was using 42.0-2 when the error came after restarting firefox. No other system updates were applied in the time firefox was working,to the moment it presented said error.
Edit: Oops, did notice something, your profile should be enclosed in quotes. ie: I create a profile called buzzkill using the mozilla profile manager. Would specify using that specific profile as follows.
firefox -P "buzzkill"
The profile manager will not load in any way.It results in the same unavailable error. Attempting to use my profile with the quoted method results in the same error.
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^Ok well consider all that above as my way of saying good luck finding the solution you seek to this issue. No worries. Things like what gui de/wm your using, info about the config of your system. It's presumably Arch, a derivative of Arch ? You've checked logs, just saying it's pretty vague, though that's just an opinion. Things happen, though what you're describing sounds odd. Out of the blue with nothing interesting at all preceding it, bam FF v 42 is borked.
Really am wishing you luck n no worries. Any tech issue can be sorted out.
Aahhh hell, you tried purging Firefox, removing config directories/files and then reinstalling ? Mentioned that, not sure if you tried it. Of course enclosing a profile that isn't in an empty .mozilla directory isn't going to fix anything. Lastly though this is radical and on par with swatting a fly with a sledge hammer. Might set up a new user on your OS, then install FF again and see what happens. Migrate stuff from old users /home to new etc blahblah. Don't know, still think it's vague and odd sounding, hope it's resolved.
Last edited by Archforum101 (2015-12-23 06:42:46)
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