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aneeshdg16

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Registered: 2023-12-06

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[SOLVED for unknown reason] Firefox not working

Every time I try running Firefox nothing happens. No window is opened and there are no error messages logged in the terminal. Just nothing. I'm using the most up to date version of Firefox through pacman.

I'm prepared to provide the proper logs when asked, but here are some basic specs:
Laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7 laptop
Kernel Version: 6.1.65-1-lts
Display Server: Xorg
Window Manager: i3

Last edited by aneeshdg16 (2024-05-13 02:09:39)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED for unknown reason] Firefox not working

* Are there (stale) FF processes?

ps aux | grep firefox

* Does it work in an openbox session? (ie. some i3 config is blocking the window)
* Any coincident errors/messages in the system journal? (eg. portal or dbus related)
* How do you start i3? xinit/startx? Post your xinitrc.
* Ultimately

strace -tt -f -o /tmp/firefox.strace # this is gonna be a shitton of text

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aneeshdg16

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Registered: 2023-12-06

Posts: 42

Re: [SOLVED for unknown reason] Firefox not working

For completeness, it magically started working again.