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Aaron

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[Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

Hello, I've been trying to get Firefox to work on my clean install of Arch64.

I tried installing firefox2 from the repos, but upon launch I simply get:

[aaron@MyRoom swiftfox3-athlon64]$ firefox
[aaron@MyRoom swiftfox3-athlon64]$

No window renders, it seems to not run at all.

So I tried installing firefox3-bin from the AUR, no luck, but at least I get an error!

[aaron@MyRoom swiftfox3-athlon64]$ firefox3-bin
/opt/firefox3-bin/run-mozilla.sh: line 166: /opt/firefox3-bin/firefox-bin: No such file or directory

But I seem to have the file?

[aaron@MyRoom swiftfox3-athlon64]$ ls /opt/firefox3-bin
application.ini             libfreebl3.so    libxpcom.so
browserconfig.properties    libjemalloc.so   libxul.so
chrome                      libmozjs.so      modules
components                  libnspr4.so      mozilla-xremote-client
crashreporter               libnss3.so       old-homepage-default.properties
crashreporter.ini           libnssckbi.so    platform.ini
crashreporter-override.ini  libnssdbm3.so    plugins
defaults                    libnssutil3.so   README.txt
dictionaries                libplc4.so       removed-files
extensions                  libplds4.so      res
firefox                     libsmime3.so     run-mozilla.sh
firefox-bin                 libsoftokn3.chk  searchplugins
greprefs                    libsoftokn3.so   Throbber-small.gif
icons                       libsqlite3.so    updater
libfreebl3.chk              libssl3.so       updater.ini

I tried installing swiftfox3 as well, I get the same error as firefox3-bin.

All help is appreciated, thanks!

Last edited by Aaron (2008-03-25 16:09:19)

ralvez

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Re: [Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

the file you should be running is "firefox" not "firefox-bin"

R,

bender02

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Re: [Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

firefox3-bin is only for i686, it won't work on x86_64 (without quite some extra work), since it's just a precompiled binary. I have firefox3 working on x86_64 - I just installed firefox3 from unstable.

EDIT: remark: that error "No such file or directory" is the usual error you get when you try to run 32bit binary on 64bit system.

Last edited by bender02 (2008-03-24 22:24:30)

Aaron

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Re: [Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

the file you should be running is "firefox" not "firefox-bin"

R,

I believe I am using the command firefox.

[aaron@MyRoom swiftfox3-athlon64]$ firefox
[aaron@MyRoom swiftfox3-athlon64]$

Bender02, I forgot firefox3 was in unstable.  Thanks!  Unfortunately, it doesn't run either.

[aaron@MyRoom ~]$ firefox3
[aaron@MyRoom ~]$

kakabaratruskia

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Re: [Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

I'm having a similar problem. It runs as root though.

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bender02

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Re: [Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

Here are a few general things to try: after running it from a command line, check with 'ps fx' if the firefox *process* is there.
Also, you can try deleting your firefox configuration (~/.mozilla/firefox/*), or running firefox in the safe mode (firefox3 -safe-mode). Other that that, I don't really know.

I remember once there was some issue with gtk2, which made every gtk application start with ~10-30 seconds lag. So if the firefox process is there, you can try to wait for about a minute, just in case.

Aaron

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Re: [Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

I'm having a similar problem. It runs as root though.

Hmm, running it as root allowed firefox3 to boot up! I tried that with the other ones with no success, but at least this works.

The fact that it will start up with root leads me to believe it's a permission issue?  I tried starting firefox3-safe-mode but got:

[aaron@MyRoom ~]$ firefox3
[aaron@MyRoom ~]$ firefox3-safe-mode
bash: firefox3-safe-mode: command not found
[aaron@MyRoom ~]$

Running safe-mode as root didn't work either.

Anyone else have any suggestions?  I surely don't want to run my web browser as root...

bender02

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Re: [Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

Eh, the -safe-mode is a parameter, so there is a space between 'firefox3' and '-safe-mode'. (But I don't think it would help though...)

Aaron

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Re: [Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

Eh, the -safe-mode is a parameter, so there is a space between 'firefox3' and '-safe-mode'. (But I don't think it would help though...)

Oh okay, I thought it was a seperate application, not a parameter.

But you were right, it didn't help either.  Anyone else have any ideas?

Ambi

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Re: [Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

How have you installed swiftfox3 on your Arch64?  Are you using 32bit chroot? If so, try

xhost +

before launching firefox.

There is also bin32-swiftfox package in AUR, which may be installed on Arch64 without 32-bit chroot.

You may also be interested in: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45272

Last edited by Ambi (2008-03-25 03:16:15)

Aaron

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Re: [Solved]Can't get any form of firefox to work? Tried Repos and AUR.

How have you installed swiftfox3 on your Arch64?  Are you using 32bit chroot? If so, try

xhost +

before launching firefox.

There is also bin32-swiftfox package in AUR, which may be installed on Arch64 without 32-bit chroot.

You may also be interested in: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45272

Thanks for your suggestions, I had installed the wrong swiftfox package apparently.  I was not running a chroot.

I have since switched to trying to use Firefox3 from the Repository.  It will only run as root, when I run it as my normal user, it will not run, it simply gives a blank line in the terminal.  No, it does not show up on my process list, even 30-40 seconds after attempting to launch.

I'm still searching around on all sorts of forums trying to figure this out, hopefully I can get this resolved soon.

Edit:  The problem appears solved!   To my eyes, it looked like a permission issue.

[aaron@MyRoom ~]$ which firefox3
/opt/mozilla/bin/firefox3
[aaron@MyRoom ~]$ ls -al /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 2008-03-11 02:40 /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox3 -> /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-3.0b4/firefox
[aaron@MyRoom ~]$ rm -rf ~/.mozilla
rm: cannot remove `/home/aaron/.mozilla': Permission denied
[aaron@MyRoom ~]$ sudo rm -rf ~/.mozilla
Password: 
[aaron@MyRoom ~]$ firefox3

I never got around to changing the permissions of the binary, but deleting ~/.mozilla (As root oddly enough, even though it was in my home directory) seems to have done the trick.  Someone posted above to delete ~/.mozilla/firefox/* which was close, thanks for your suggestions!

Last edited by Aaron (2008-03-25 16:09:02)