Firefox not running: unable to load XPCOM (was Re: )
Suvayu Ali
fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Fri Apr 2 08:34:43 UTC 2010
Hi Don,
Please have proper a subject and trim the replies appropriately, I
missed your earlier reply because of a missing subject and it was quite
difficult to pick out your responses.
On Friday 02 April 2010 12:48 AM, David García Granda wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
>>>>> I tried starting firefox in a terminal and it returned
>>>> "can't load XPCOM"
>>>>> I tried 'locate XPCOM' and it returned some files in
>>>
>
> 1.- Did you try strace (strace -o strace.log firefox)?. If not, please
> do it and post trace output file (strace.log in the example mentioned)
> for inspection.
>
As David mentioned in his earlier message, strace would help greatly here.
> 2.- Which architecture are you running (i686, x86_64)?. Do you have
> mixed libraries?
>
That could be a reason.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17008
> 3.- Can you paste the content of configuration files stored under /etc/gre.d/?
>
> Regards,
>
> David
GL
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Suvayu
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