FireFox Broken BFX-1 After Upgrade

[zandoval]

HD Installed BFX.1 - No Problems - Did apt-get upgrade - Now firefox broken - Installed Dillo is working - Removed all of Firefox then reinstalled = not working - Removed again and installed mozilla = all working - Installed firefox = not working - Summary: I have a working Mozilla and Dillo but FireFox will not work after a standard install useing apt-get or synaptic???  Note: all other aplications in BFX.1 working well...

[alloydog]

I found this as well.

apt-get upgrade can be pretty dangerous, as there are some reworked packages buried away in BeatrIX/BFX which will break on upgrade.

In Synaptic, the only out-of-date packages highlighted are mostly to do with libcups and one for, IIRC, libc6 - about eight packages in all.  On a couple of tries, I updated these with Synaptic, and yes, Firefox broke.

I have not tried updating the pakages one-by-yet, to see which one does the damage, but I suspect it might be the libc6.
 - It will have to wait untill sometime next week before I can look into this deeper.

[Renegat3]

There is a design flaw in the firefox package I built.

Before you make an upgrade:

Code:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libnspr4.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
sudo cp /usr/lib/ libnss3.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
sudo cp /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/

If you already upgraded, boot from the BFX CD and copy the files to the /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/ on your hd.
e.g.:

Code:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libnspr4.so /mnt/hda1/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
sudo cp /usr/lib/ libnss3.so /mnt/hda1/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
sudo cp /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so /mnt/hda1/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/

R3

[alloydog]

Cheers, will do it!

How about, under the Annoucements, having a thread called Errata, then any fixes like this can be posted there.  For example this one could be:

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Problem:  Firefox brakes after updating libnspr4 and libnss3 or packages updating these as dependencies.
Cause:  The current installed version of mozilla-firefox 1.0.8-ubuntu4.10 requires these versions.
Solution 1. Before upgrading these packages, do the following:

Code:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libnspr4.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
sudo cp /usr/lib/ libnss3.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
sudo cp /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/

Solution 2. If you already upgraded, boot from the BFX CD and copy the files to the /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/ on your hd
For example:

Code:

sudo cp /usr/lib/libnspr4.so /mnt/hda1/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
sudo cp /usr/lib/ libnss3.so /mnt/hda1/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
sudo cp /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so /mnt/hda1/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox

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It should not be a discussion thread, just a list of fixes.

[Renegat3]

First of all, it's Firefox 1.5.0.1 and not from the repo! As I said, I made it myself, where I made a mistake, which I already corrected in BFX2!
Well, what can I say, I was young, I was reckless, I needed the money ...

Anyway, I don't think such a thread is necessary, at least not for BFX1 since BFX2 is on it's way.

R3

[zandoval]

Ok - Giving it a try - This is really not that much of a problem because Mozilla seems to be running fine - I am inpressed the way your remaster is working so well - Will let you know how it turns out...

[alloydog]

I made a clean installation on my Duron 900 MHz desktop.  Firefox just does not seem to work at all.
I made the above fix - no change.  I install Firefox from the Mozilla/Firefox site (installed to /home/user directory), and I even tried installing it with Synaptic.  Still, nothing works.

Dillo works, but that wouldn't let me login to this forum, and anyway, it does not support https, so I cannot use it for e-mail.

[Renegat3]

It worked on a LiveCD. Start firefox in a terminal (#> firefox). The error message might help.

R3

[alloydog]

I tried opening it from a terminal.  The error message was along the lines of "A window could not be started."

[alloydog]

Mozilla breaks Firefox

So I could test my web pages on other browsers, I installed Dillo and Mozilla with Synaptic.
I did it one by one, to make sure each installation didn't cause a problem.

Dillo installed OK, Firefox worked OK as well.

Mozilla installed OK, but failed to start.
The desktop error message give was:
          Cannot launch entry
          Details: Failed to execute child process
          "mozilla-1.7.3" (No such file or directory)

A quite browse revealed the correct file to be mozilla-1.7.10.  Which was corrected by just editting the laucher.
The same happened with Mozilla Composer.

After that, Firefox failed to start.

I ran it from a terminal and got the following error message:
          /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 424:  2581 Segmentation fault
          "$prog" ${1+"$@"}


I tried to install it with Synaptic as the initial installtion is a 'special' done by Renegat3 and does not show as installed in Synaptic.

Again Firefox failed to start, but from the terminal no error was given.
I coul dhere the harddrive whirring away, and then the fan cut in!
From a terminal, I checked with top.
Firefox was taking 93% of CPU time!
I killed it.

The same happened whether I used firefox or mozilla-firefox as the command to start it.

I used Synaptic to completely remove the one installed with it, then as root user, in Nautilus I deleted every instance of firefox, mozilla-firefox and .mozilla.

Running mozilla just recreated any deleted user folders.

I then downloaded and reinstalled Firefox from http://www.getfirefox.com and installed it to the user home directory under a sub-directory called programmes.

Both Firefox and Mozilla run OK now.

I think Mozilla overwrote and corrupted the Firefox generated directory .mozilla and subdirectory .mozilla/firefox
After the clean up and reinstallation, every was rewritten correctly.

Looking back, it might have been necessary to just delete the .mozilla directory.

I will look at it again when BFX2 comes out.