Arch Linux

madalu

Member

Registered: 2009-05-05

Posts: 217

[SOLVED] After installing eclipse, conkeror-git won't start

Yesterday, I made the mistake of installing eclipse to check it out. Ever since I installed (and quickly uninstalled) the bloatware, my conkeror-git has been complaining that it can't find XULrunner:

/usr/bin/conkeror: cannot continue. XULRunner not found.

Xulrunner is installed, of course:

$ which xulrunner
/usr/bin/xulrunner

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both xulrunner and conkeror several times, as well as rebooting my machine.

I don't know much about xulrunner, but is it possible that the eclipse install messed with some sort of xulrunner configuration file that persists despite reinstalls?

Last edited by madalu (2010-02-24 13:55:49)

madalu

Member

Registered: 2009-05-05

Posts: 217

Re: [SOLVED] After installing eclipse, conkeror-git won't start

I found the persistent configuration that I was looking for. After consulting /usr/bin/conkeror, I solved this problem by moving /etc/gre.d to /etc/gre.d.bak and reinstalling xulrunner.

FWIW, it seems that eclipse changes the xulrunner registry in ways that cause the /usr/bin/conkeror script to barf. (Weaning myself off xulrunner by learning uzbl is on my todo list - I promise!)

Last edited by madalu (2010-02-24 13:55:15)

mister.right

Member

Registered: 2011-05-14

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] After installing eclipse, conkeror-git won't start

Thank you for this. Same case here.

Inxsible

Forum Fellow

From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: [SOLVED] After installing eclipse, conkeror-git won't start

mister.right, Please do not necrobump threads.

Closing...

---

Forum Rules

There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !