On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:25:40 -0500
Felix Miata
On 2012/01/26 19:07 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
Thomas Taylor wrote:
Tonight Firefox (9.0.1) under OS 12.1 won't open. A message is displayed that states "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible:. Sure enough, .mozilla is missing in /home/tom. Don't remember doing anything with it but may be due to two windstorms within the last few days. This happens from panel icon, favorites icon, or cli.
It's my understanding that if the profile is deleted a new one is created when firefox is run again. That doesn't happen here. It just keeps showing the error message and when OK is clicked the message box disappears but the program doesn't appear.
The thing to do in such cases is to start FF from a terminal to see what error messages appear when you try to start it.
Hi Felix; As stated in the first paragraph, I had tried starting from cli but only got the popup error box and message.
Thought of restoring from the backup drive but that got fried during the storms when there was a large power surge. The computer was on a good surge protector (APC) but not the backup drive SIGH!)
I also tried completely removing Firefox through Yast2 and then re-installing but the problem is still the same.
Obviously I could use another web browser but I prefer to stay with FF for now.
Any suggestions or thoughts on where to look?
The power failure most probably corrupted the file system. The first thing to do is the make sure that the file system is OK: run e2fsck (assuming that you are using either ext2 or ext3 or ext 4) on the /dev/sdaX which has your system installed. Don't know how to run 'e2fsck'? Ask or look in the manual (/usr/share/doc /manual).
You create a new profile from a command line in terminal/console with 'firefox -P'.
Normally yes, but if ~/.mozilla is missing and ~ is not writable for some reason (including lack of freespace), it won't work. Normal behavior is if no profile can be found, and ~/.mozilla is writable, starting FF without any switches will automatically create a profile named "default" in ~/.mozilla/.
Another thing to try if trouble continues is creating another user, logging in using it, and seeing if FF will run there.
Yes, ~/.mozilla was missing and ~/ is writeable. Also, the partition it is on has over 10 GB of free space. I tried anoth user account and that worked so copied ~/.mozilla and changed its ownership (UID) but FF still popups up the message box with the error message. As I told Basil, I'm going to do a low level format on the drives and re-install both 11.4 and 12.1. Fortunately I had made a separate backup on DVDs of my "common data" partition so will only lose about a weeks worth of data. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 openSUSE 12.1 KDE 4.6.00, FF 4.0 KDE 4.7.2, FF 8.0 claws-mail 3.7.9 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org