2009/5/13 Wolfgang Rosenauer
Michael Roberts schrieb:
After the xulrunner update about 48 hours ago my Firefox does not start up correctly. Running openSuse 11.0 64bit with Gnome.
When I start it I get no error messages, but a small blank window almost off the top-left-hand corner of the screen. If I close that I get a blank window the size of my normal Firefox window which closes after a second or so. Starting with -safe-mode does not affect this behaviour.
I have tried downgrading to version 3.0.9 (I could not downgrade to a compatible xulrunner for that) and 3.0.8 which displays the same symptoms. I can sort-of-survive with Opera for a while, but I will appreciate suggestions as to how to restore Firefox...
Please let us know first which combination didn't work with package names and version numbers. Of interest are the mozilla-xulrunner190 and MozillaFirefox package versions.
Wolfgang
Thanks for the reply: I am currently running as follows:
misbehaviour as described above
no xulrunner in normal or root execution path
xxx> zypper info Mozillafirefox mozilla-xulrunner190 | grep -P
'^(?:Repository|Name|Arch|Vendor|Installed|Status):'
Repository: openSUSE-11.0-Updates
Name: MozillaFirefox
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Installed: Yes
Status: out-of-date (version 3.0.8-1.1 installed)
Repository: openSUSE-11.0-Updates
Name: mozilla-xulrunner190
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Installed: Yes
Status: out-of-date (version 1.9.0.8-1.1 installed)
xxx> ls -lrt /etc/gre.d
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 2009-01-09 23:04 1.8.1.19.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78 2009-04-07 11:49 1.9.0.8-64bit.system.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139 2009-05-11 22:25 1.9.0.10.conf
xxx>
Now upgrading one step:
I choose firefox 3.0.9 in YaST and it automatically selects xulrunner
Problem -- at this stage there is no visual feedback as to versions
selected for update, but I already have a bad feeling :)
I press Apply and once things are installed I see the new versions -
I now have a very bad feeling!
xxx> zypper info Mozillafirefox mozilla-xulrunner190 | grep -P
'^(?:Repository|Name|Arch|Vendor|Installed|Status):'
Repository: openSUSE-11.0-Updates
Name: MozillaFirefox
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Installed: Yes
Status: out-of-date (version 3.0.9-0.1 installed)
Repository: openSUSE-11.0-Updates
Name: mozilla-xulrunner190
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
xxx> ls -lrt /etc/gre.d
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 2009-01-09 23:04 1.8.1.19.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 2009-05-07 17:46 1.9.0.10-64bit.system.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139 2009-05-11 22:25 1.9.0.10.conf
xxx> which xulrunner
/usr/bin/xulrunner
xxx> firefox
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.9 and 1.9.0.9.
xxx>
thus: YaST update of MozillaFirefox is selecting the wrong version of
xulrunner for a previous version.
Now I update (downgrade) xulrunner explicitly:
xxx> zypper info Mozillafirefox mozilla-xulrunner190 | grep -P
'^(?:Repository|Name|Arch|Vendor|Installed|Status):'
Repository: openSUSE-11.0-Updates
Name: MozillaFirefox
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Installed: Yes
Status: out-of-date (version 3.0.9-0.1 installed)
Repository: openSUSE-11.0-Updates
Name: mozilla-xulrunner190
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Installed: Yes
Status: out-of-date (version 1.9.0.9-0.1 installed)
xxx> ls -lrt /etc/gre.d
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 2009-01-09 23:04 1.8.1.19.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78 2009-04-27 16:32 1.9.0.9-64bit.system.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139 2009-05-11 22:25 1.9.0.10.conf
xxx> which xulrunner
which: no xulrunner in
(/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/mike/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin)
xxx> firefox
xxx>
No error messages, but the first small window (almost off the top-left
corner of the screen) displays a pane with a thin red border and a red
message <