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Hey all,
I'm having a problem with firefox-beta. When I go to start it, nothing happens. I type "firefox-beta" on the prompt, and it hangs. No cpu is used, the process is shown as running, but nothing pops up. I've tried countless versions of the beta, also the alpha and nightly builds right from mozilla and they also don't work for me. Any ideas? Maybe a weird lib symlink screwing it up left over from something else? I'm stuck, no idea whats going on.
The last lines of a strace on firefox-beta:
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [INT CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0
_llseek(255, -35, [3848], SEEK_CUR) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7d05708) = 8700
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8079990, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
waitpid(-1,
I think that its waiting on firefox-bin. Not sure why that program isn't starting. I have tried removing my .firefox and all config traces, no change.
-Casey
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Run the firefox script.
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Same thing is happening here, I get the same output with strace.
Run the firefox script.
The one in /usr/bin is Firefox stable, so I guess you mean the one in "/opt/firefox-beta-3.1b3". Same issue there.
Edit: after uncommenting the "set -x" in the firefox script, the last line of output is:
+ ./run-mozilla.sh ./firefox-bin
Last edited by abesto (2009-03-14 06:36:07)
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The script is typically /usr/share/firefox/firefox, or /usr/local/share/firefox/firefox. Do not run the bin directly.
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Actually (as I wrote in the last post) there are now two scripts: one in /usr/bin (Firefox stable), and one in /opt/firefox-beta-3.1b3 (Firefox beta 3). Neither is a binary - they are used to run the binary, as you pointed out. The debug information kcbanner and I posted are produced by the script (not the binary).
Edit: also, /usr/bin/firefox-beta appears to be a symlink to the firefox script in /opt/firefox-beta-3.1b3
Last edited by abesto (2009-03-14 15:50:06)
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Firefox-beta is doing something similar to me. It pops up then immediately crashes and pops up an error reporter.
I've given up and gone back to the stable 3.0.7
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