Bug #499
closedFirefox does not start
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Description
After a recent update (including to ff 1.5.0.9 from 1.5.0.8) firefox
became ... useless:
0.68s real 0.17s user 0.07s sys/usr/bin/time -h firefox
Of course no window popped up, there was nothing. Removing the .mozilla
directory only adds 1 or 2 seconds until it exits (it seems to
create .mozilla folder and a default profile). I did ktrace firefox and I
have no idea how or why it does die but it does experience "Resource
temporarily unavailable" a few times so I suspect this is the same as the
gmake's write error I have been experiencing since May 2006 (maybe even
before but would have to check more thoroughly).
After this I also tried accessing some protected samba shares with konqueror
and in most cases I just got a nice box saying "Internal error has occured:
Resource temporarily unavailable" and a few times I actually got back "Access
denied" (which it should've reported in all cases?).
So I suspect the same cause (bug) is shared among all three cases (if all 3
are experiencing the same problem, it is probably present in other things I
haven't noticed yet?). Now since without firefox I can't even access my bank
or work from home or do anything else productive (all my bookmarks, passwords
and certificates are saved in firefox) I am really desperate. I did try
checking the ktrace of firefox to find the problem myself but it would
probably take me a few weeks just to find out why does it die and I need it
solved much faster.
The ktraces are present at leaf:~rumko/crash/firefox/ktrace.*,
leaf:~rumko/crash/gmake/ktrace.* and leaf:~rumko/crash/konqueror/ktrace.*.
There are some old e-mails if you search for "write error" on the ML and
there is some more info that Matt told me through e-mail so whoever does pick
this job up, e-mail so I can send you some more information.
I need this solved ASAP and am prepared to pay up to 100€ (I would have put
this on the Code Bounties page on the wiki but I'm not even sure if it is the
same bug or not).
Updated by wa1ter almost 18 years ago
Sorry to report that the linux firefox segfaults on my DF-current box,
so my suggestion probably won't help you :o(
I'll see if I can figure out what the real problem is, but I hope
somebody smarter than I am can figure it out quickly for you.
Updated by rumcic almost 18 years ago
I didn't even come that far, it was complaining about some missing libs,
corrected LD_LIBRARY_PATH but it then complained about some missing symbols
(probably just needed linux libs).
And I hope it will be fixed soon. As for gmake's write error, another victim
can be seen on users@ (Subject: updating packages). As for firefox, hopefully he
will complain if it won't start like in my case.
Updated by corecode almost 18 years ago
pebkac, rumkic reported that joerg's binaries work
Updated by wa1ter almost 18 years ago
Hm. My own builds still don't work on HEAD. I think Joerg is building
on -stable?
I haven't updated my system since Matt started all the vkernel work, so
I'm a bit behind, but somehow I don't expect firefox to work any better
after I update :o)
Updated by wa1ter almost 18 years ago
I'm happy to say I was wrong :o) Updating to yesterday's HEAD did in
fact fix firefox.