[Fwd: Re: Firefox not working]

[kevin gillespie]

All my accounts, including the root don't work. I've even created a new
account. 
No luck anyway.

kevin

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 23:29, kevin gillespie wrote:
> All my accounts, including the root don't work. I've even created a new
> account. 
> No luck anyway.

Try 'strace firefox' from a terminal window, then scroll backwards
through the output to see if there is a failing system call that
makes any sense.

[Oldman]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 23:29, kevin gillespie wrote:
> > All my accounts, including the root don't work. I've even created a new
> > account. 
> > No luck anyway.
>
> Try 'strace firefox' from a terminal window, then scroll backwards
> through the output to see if there is a failing system call that
> makes any sense.

Also try from terminal:
    killall firefox

As we have seen periodically that firefox crashes leaving a small 
program running that prevents ff from starting again.

Scott

[Tim]

Les Mikesell:
> > Try 'strace firefox' from a terminal window, then scroll backwards
> > through the output to see if there is a failing system call that
> > makes any sense.

oldman:
> Also try from terminal:
> killall firefox
>
> As we have seen periodically that firefox crashes leaving a small 
>
> program running that prevents ff from starting again.

I've had one PC that I couldn't get Firefox to start up on for a few
days, and now I've just got around to having a look why.  I tried Les'
suggestion, but strace isn't on my system (and I don't know where it
comes from to install it).  I tried your suggestion, but there wasn't
anything running.  I had a look into my profile directory, and saw what
my problem was:  a "lock" file belonging to a previous session that
shouldn't be there anymore.  I deleted that, and I could run Firefox
again.

I suspect that problem occurred when I accidentally unplugged the power
while the PC was running.  I forgot what applications were running at
the time, it rebooted without any dramas, so I never bothered to check
on whether anything needed fixing straight away.

[Tony Nelson]

At 6:29 AM +0200 10/28/05, kevin gillespie wrote:
> > Return-Path:

...
> > kevin gillespie wrote:
> > > I recently had corruption on my hard drive. There after Firefox stopped
> > > working. I've uninstalled/reinstalled and run fsck, several times. All
> > > to no avail. It still does not fire up. Any ideas?
> >
> > Have you tried in a different account?  Possibly corrupted user file?
> All my accounts, including the root don't work. I've even created a new
> account.
> No luck anyway.

"Corruption", eh?  Sounds like you have damaged data on the drive.  You
should probably re-install the OS and applications and restore your
documents (data) from a backup, or at least ask RPM what might be borked
(won't help with your documents).

$ su -
    # rpm -Va
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