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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)
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the file you should be running is "firefox" not "firefox-bin"
R,
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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)
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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 ~]$
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I'm having a similar problem. It runs as root though.
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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.
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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...
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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...)
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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?
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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)
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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)
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