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Firefox 2 & 3 won't start in FreeBSD 6.2
I am not sure how to start troubleshooting firefox problems on one of my freebsd boxes (my webserver at home). I have installed the latest ports of firefox from both www/firefox and www/firefox-devel. I just cvsup'ed my ports tree earlier this week. Both the 'foxes' compile and install fine with no errors reported.
However, nothing happens when I try to start either one. Trying to start from the command prompt will just cause a momentary pause and then eventually nothing - I just get a new command prompt as if all I did was hit enter. No error messages anywhere. The system is running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. System is a dell optiplex GX260, 2ghz P4 and 256mb ram. I did try using the '--g-fatal-warnings' option when starting firefox, but that lead to the same result (nothing). Any ideas on what to try next would be much appreciated. |
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I've never run gdb before, I don't have the slightest idea what to do in there.
I can say that when I try to run the firefox binaries directly as you suggested, that neither version starts. Same lack of useful return as running simply as "firefox" or "firefox-devel". |
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At your (non-root) shell prompt, run:
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gdb /usr/local/lib/firefox3-bin Post the output from gdb here, it'll tell you clearly if it is exiting on a signal or with what exit code it is ceasing execution. |
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> gdb /usr/local/lib/firefox-devel/firefox-bin GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)... (gdb) Code:
> gdb xclock GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)... (gdb) (gdb) Code:
> which foobar foobar: Command not found. > gdb foobar GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...foobar: No such file or directory. (gdb) |
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% mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old and try launching firefox again.
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I always had problems with that, I just assume that FX breaks sometimes its configuration and I do rm -rf ~/.mozilla then.
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