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toad

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[SOLVED] - firefox won't start

First off, this problem happens on a kubuntu 0804 machine on kde3. However, their forum has not thrown up anything yet, so I am trying to leech the knowledgeable Arch crowd

Problem:
Firefox comes up after two minutes after clicking on the icon but freezes immediately.

Attempted solutions:
Purged and reinstalled - no joy
Deleted ~/.mozilla - no joy
Purged, reinstalled and deleted ~/.mozilla - no joy
Started firefox in safe mode - no joy
Disabled IPv6 - no joy

Further probing:
installed strace and started from the command line, start hangs with message:

connect(36, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(16001), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16

Further attempted solutions:
Checked /etc/hosts - all clear
Checked /etc/resolv.conf - all clear

Am using Seamonkey instead but would prefer to get back to firefox but heck, this thing beats me!

Last edited by toad (2009-08-30 15:39:30)

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loafer

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Re: [SOLVED] - firefox won't start

What happens if you ping 127.0.0.1?

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toad

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Re: [SOLVED] - firefox won't start

markus@markus-desktop:~$ ping 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4009ms

Perhaps the /etc/hosts is dodgy after all?

markus@markus-desktop:~$ cat /etc/hosts
#127.0.0.1      localhost
#127.0.1.1      markus-desktop
127.0.0.1       localhost       markus-desktop  markus

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

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wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] - firefox won't start

do you have a firewall ?

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toad

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Re: [SOLVED] - firefox won't start

uwf was installed - uninstalled it but still cannot ping localhost. Am googling as to what might be the cause of this...

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loafer

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Re: [SOLVED] - firefox won't start

Sounds like the loop back interface may not be up.  Try "ifconfig lo".

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toad

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Re: [SOLVED] - firefox won't start

Bullseye - it wasn't listed in /etc/nework/interfaces. Just added it and rebooted (sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart didn't do anything, suppose I should have tried a sudo ifup lo as well...).

AND EVERYTHING IS WORKING!!!

Thanks a bunch

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