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Asgaroth

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From: Hesse, Germany

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 58

[SOLVED] firefox3 doesn't start

Firefox3 doesn't start and does not produce any console output and doesn't use cpu either. I tried both a self-compiled version using spookyet's package as well as the binaries from mozilla using the firefox3-bin pkgbuild in the AUR.
To make sure there are no extensions interfering I deleted the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory, although there's still a swiftweasel folder in ~/.mozilla, but this shouldn't matter right?
I'm using xulrunner version 1.8.1.14 if that's important. I also theorized that it has something to do with compiz, but disabling it doesn't change anything though.

So, did anybody else have this problem and/or knows how to fix it?

Edit: Oh, I just noticed, that I posted that in the wrong forum, could a moderator please move this to "Workstation User", I apologize for the inconvenience.

Last edited by Asgaroth (2008-06-21 14:15:56)

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: [SOLVED] firefox3 doesn't start

Are you trying to start it using firefox3, or just firefox?

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Asgaroth

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From: Hesse, Germany

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] firefox3 doesn't start

I typed firefox3 or firefox3-bin(for the binary package) respectively. And no the two packages weren't installed at the same time to rule out another possible reason.

master-inferno

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From: France

Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] firefox3 doesn't start

I've got exactly the same problem here.
I tried betas, and rc versions of Firefox 3 (in AUR), and it didn't launch (sticking in console).
I tried launching it as root, and it worked. I also moved my .mozilla folder to /root/ and it worked.

Is it a permission problem ? Do we need to modify our  /etc/group or something ?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: [SOLVED] firefox3 doesn't start

If you guys are using pulseaudio and preloading libpulsedsp, that's your problem. There's some kind of incompatibility.

Asgaroth

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From: Hesse, Germany

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] firefox3 doesn't start

I had pulseaudio installed, but didn't use it. I uninstalled but it doesn't change the problem(I also restarted to make sure there were no remnants of it in the memory). For me it's neither working as user nor as root.
When doing an strace it hangs indefinitely at a call to waitpid(-1,...) if that's helping.

Last edited by Asgaroth (2008-06-21 09:34:18)

briest

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From: Katowice, PL

Registered: 2006-05-04

Posts: 468

Re: [SOLVED] firefox3 doesn't start

See this forum thread about Firefox hanging during startup; the bug in Firefox Bugzilla is marked fixed, but maybe the discussion will give you any interesting idea.

When I had found, that my apparently broken FF3 works when run as root, and there is no permission related errors in strace output, I started with comparison of environment variables, and this eventually led me to the workaround, maybe try it.

Asgaroth

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From: Hesse, Germany

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] firefox3 doesn't start

Thank you briest starting firefox with LD_PRELOAD="" works perfectly.