[SOLVED] Firefox, Thunderbird etc can't launch and samba is glitching.

llawwehttam · 2010-04-11 19:56:08

Hiah, I just got back from holiday and ran the weeks updates last night and all was fine. Checked my email, turned off and today I cannot launch firefox or thunderbird and several other apps. Also I use this machine to share my music over the network and that is having problems too.

I have tried removing .gconf and .gconfd but it hasn't helped.

If I try to launch firefox from the terminal I get a message saying

**ERROR** Resource problem creating '/tmp/orbit-llawwehttam'
aborting....
Aborted

If run as root it works fine.

I have plenty space left and the permissions of /tmp/ are drwxrwxrwt 6 root root

Any help would be extremely appreciated.

EDIT. $touch /tmp/orbit-llawwehttam works fine.

EDIT 2: Looking at it in thurnar there appears to be 0B free space in / but in Gparted there is 750Mb. Is there a minimum I can have?

Last edited by llawwehttam (2010-04-11 23:01:23)

llawwehttam · 2010-04-11 21:20:24

Right. I've just booted from an ubuntu live cd and I'm resizing partitions to give / a few gigs more. I doubt it will make a difference though. Bit of a pity, I was starting to really like arch.

demian · 2010-04-11 21:56:00

It doesn't quite fit your description but did you use the testing repository when updating your system? There has been some trouble since a week or two although i hear it's (almost?) fixed.

Last edited by demian (2010-04-11 21:58:10)

llawwehttam · 2010-04-11 21:57:15

No. I have never used it. G-parted is still running so I'll double check when its finished but I'm pretty sure.

Last edited by llawwehttam (2010-04-11 21:58:40)

demian · 2010-04-11 22:08:31

I take it you've read this thread? If you decide to use that solution, be sure to create a backup ^_^.
There's also a bug report about the firefox issue: http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_fo … &forumId=1

750 MB free space doesn't seem much to me. It wouldn't hurt to clean up by using pacman -Sc (or maybe -Scc) and deleting old logs or removing orphans (pacman -Rscn $(pacman -Qtdq)). Maybe you're lucky and that solves your issues.

If that doesn't help personally i would downgrade the packages you just updated, maybe starting with anything sounding like gtk libraries or gnome dependencies (if you're using gnome).

Sorry i can't be much more of a help.

Regards,
demian

Last edited by demian (2010-04-11 23:27:33)

llawwehttam · 2010-04-11 22:10:28

Yes I have read that thread. Sadly it didn't help.

I haven't cleared the logs for a while so when Gparted is done I will do that. As I said all help is appreciated.

llawwehttam · 2010-04-11 23:01:04

Its all working again. I think it was a space issue. I have cleaned all the logs up so it should be fine now.

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[SOLVED] Firefox, Thunderbird etc can't launch and samba is glitching.

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