New Firefox Won't run
David García Granda
dgranda at gmail.com
Thu Apr 1 19:13:55 UTC 2010
Hi Don,
> Yesterday I updated to kernel 2.6.32.9.70 fc12 and to firefox-3.5.9-1.fc12 and now firefox won't start. I get a notice in the bottom bar for a few seconds and then it goes blank.
Strange, I have the same package versions and firefox runs fine...
> I tried starting firefox in a terminal and it returned "can't load XPCOM"
> I tried 'locate XPCOM' and it returned some files in /usr/lib/VirtualBox and /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm
Uhmmm... I don't have virtualbox installed, so this can make the difference.
> I have VirtualBox installed, but I am not trying to run firefox in virtualBox, but on the desktop.
> I just found that xulrunner-1.9.1.9-1.fc12 was installed at the same time as the new firefox so I suspect the problem is between firefox and xulrunner.
I think the problem here is VirtualBox.
> I don't know what to try next. I have been using fc12 for a long time successfully for quite a while Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Is it possible for you to check if XPCOM files related from VirtualBox
conflict with Firefox/xulrunner ones?. Maybe something not compatible
from VirtualBox is loaded instead of the right one.
HTH,
David
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