firefox problem

[byte.chaser]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 10:40, Craig wrote:
> David Smith wrote:
> 
>  >Well the major difference from what I did and from what you did appears
>  >to be that you used rpms and yum. Where as I downloaded mine from
>  >mozilla.org. It could be possible that there is something broken in the
>  >rpms. I have however found this version to be somewhat more buggy then
>  >0.8. Here is what I did and if you want to try go for it.
>  >This is the only way I got it to work, and trust me it's a bit weird.
>  >1) I downloaded the install program from mozilla.org.
>  >2) Extracted it.
>  >3) sued in as root.
>  >4) Used ./firefox-installer (This is the weird part)
>  >5) I couldn't get it to install to /usr/share/firefox or
>  >/usr/share/firefox-installer so I installed it to the directory that I
>  >had to extracted it to. If it works it automatically opens a firefox
>  >window (p.s. the theme is pretty bad...you may want to change it...after
>  >the next step).
>  >6) I then just moved that dir to /usr/share/firefox (i.e.
>  >~/.../firefox-installer/* /usr/share/firefox).
>  >
>  >I think it my multiple attempts I had changed the directory name a
>  >couple of times, but after I did this is when it showed the best signs
>  >of working. You may want to check all the permissions for security
>  >reasons. Hope that helps shed some light on the differences.
>  >
>  >David
>  >On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 08:13, Jaime Alvarez wrote:
>  >
>  >>David Smith wrote:
>  >>
>  >>>I had a similar problem this morning after I installed Firefox from the
>  >>>Mozilla website. I found that it would sit there and then not start at
>  >>>all. To fix mine I just renamed my .mozilla directory to
>  >>>.mozilla_backup. This seemed to have fixed it. Seems that this version
>  >>>of firefox is different. For example it had import my bookmarks etc.
>  >>>Hope that helps.
>  >>>David
>  >>>On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:00, Jaime Alvarez wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>>I'm afraid that i can't use your advice, because I'm using Fedora
> Core 1.
>  >>>>
>  >>>>Jaime
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>>>Re: firefox problem
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>From: Mark Weaver <mdw1982 mdw1982 dyndns org>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>Subject: Re: firefox problem
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:43:38 -0400
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>Jaime Alvarez wrote:
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>>I was using Firefox 0.8 until i decided to try the new version
>  >>>>>>yesterday. I used yum to remove the old one and then yum again to
>  >>>>>>install version 0.9.1. Now i can't use either firefox or the
> original
>  >>>>>>mozilla version that comes with Fedora (Core 1), but konqueror works
>  >>>>>>fine. During the installation, yum said that a XFree86 update
> was needed
>  >>>>>>and i agreed to it.
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>>Any suggestions?
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>>
>  >>>>>it sounds like the last bit is where your problem lies. (
> installation
>  >>>>>of XFree86 )
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>FC2 uses Xorg and not XFree86. Check your installed packages list
> to see
>  >>>>>if you've got both, ( although I don't see how that could be
> possible )
>  >>>>>installed on your system. You'll want to remove the XFree86
> packages in
>  >>>>>favor of the Xorg packages.
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>--
>  >>>>>Mark
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>Linux user because anything else is just insane.
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>I renamed my .mozilla directory, and when i started firefox it prompted
>  >>me for importing dtaa from older versions, but then it didn't work (i
>  >>trid both, importing and not importing)
>  >>
>  >>In my opinion, it is very strange that mozilla 1.4.1 doesn't start
> either...
>  >
>  >
> There is a permission problem with the RPM version. By default, the
> ~/.mozilla directory is 700, but firefox won't work with that setup.
> If you change the permissions to 775, which was the default of the
> ~/.phoenix directory, everything works just fine although the initial
> load does seem to take forever. At least that's what it took for me to
> get it to work.
> 
> Craig
> 

I installed Firefox/0.9.1 with ./firefox-installer into
/usr/share/firefox-installer....seemed to get installed ok. After the
installer finished i was left with a new firefox window. Heres where the
problem comes in... if i close the window i can't load firefox again i
tried running /usr/share/firefox-installer/firefox all i get is a
terminal :
<snip>
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** nsExtensionManager::_disableObsoleteExtensions - failure, catching
exception so finalize window can close
*** loading the extensions datasource
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
/usr/share/firefox-installer/run-mozilla.sh: line 451:  4210
Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

so i tried chmod 775 the /usr/share/firefox-installer dir...same issue
same error.
Then i tried looking at ps -aux found:

/bin/sh /usr/share/firefox-installer/firefox

/bin/sh /usr/share/firefox-installer/run-mozilla.sh
/usr/share/firefox-installer/firefox-bin

/usr/share/firefox-installer/firefox-bin

if i run the last on i get:
/usr/share/firefox-installer/firefox-bin: error while loading shared
libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory (but its running!!!)

Any ideas or suggestions??