Re: [opensuse-factory] Firefox won't start
On Thursday 06 May 2010 18:15:28 you wrote:
On 05/06/2010 04:34 PM, Richard Creighton wrote:
Ever since updating to >= 3.0 Firefox, I get some variation of the following:
rcc@Athelon:~> firefox returned PAC proxy string: direct *** nss-shared-helper: Shared database disabled (set NSS_USE_SHARED_DB to enable).
** (firefox:10537): WARNING **: AT-SPI: Accessibility bus not found - Using session bus.
/usr/bin/firefox: line 128: 10537 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" rcc@Athelon:~>
Of course, this is from a command line, From the 'kicker', I just get the 'bouncing ball" with no error message, after 30 seconds, it just disappears with no firefox, no message, no nothing.
To restore Firefox, I have to reinstall, 2.5.9 or earlier, then, it works again. Installing any version later than that results in failure to start.
This is with 11.3 factory.
uname -a
Linux Athelon 2.6.34-rc5-6-default #1 SMP 2010-04-22 21:18:20 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Updated 6 May
Processor is an AMD 64 running 32bit Dual core mode 2 2G memory, LVM AND RAID 5 (4 drive x 1Tb) + 3 1Tb drives in the / and /home LVM. This all worked in 11.2 and 11.3 M4 and earlier until Firefox was updated beyond 2.5.9. Reverting Firefox causes the segfault to disappear, reinstalling the 3.+ (latest) restores the segfault.
Now the squirrel...I have a virtually identical machine int the other room with similar hardware and also running factory, that works! ... but NFS won't run on it!!! The MBd is MSI but the CPU is an AMD...the MBD on this one is an ASUS. I have another one (ASUS) that I haven't upgraded yet...production machine, but another ASUS running 11.2 with no problems. So, far, I'm not sure whether it is the kernel interacting with Firefox or Firefox itself.
Have you tried starting in safe mode? Add the -safe-mode switch. ricreig@Athelon:~> firefox --safe-mode
** (firefox:10445): WARNING **: AT-SPI: Accessibility bus not found - Using session bus. /usr/bin/firefox: line 128: 10445 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" Then again with ONE hyphen in the command.... ricreig@Athelon:~> firefox -safe-mode ** (firefox:10474): WARNING **: AT-SPI: Accessibility bus not found - Using session bus. /usr/bin/firefox: line 128: 10474 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" ricreig@Athelon:~> It made a difference of one digit in the error message, but nothing starts....unfortunately..... Thanks but that doesn't seem to be the magic... Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:42, Richard Creighton <ricreig@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 06 May 2010 18:15:28 you wrote:
On 05/06/2010 04:34 PM, Richard Creighton wrote:
Ever since updating to >= 3.0 Firefox, I get some variation of the following:
rcc@Athelon:~> firefox returned PAC proxy string: direct *** nss-shared-helper: Shared database disabled (set NSS_USE_SHARED_DB to enable).
** (firefox:10537): WARNING **: AT-SPI: Accessibility bus not found - Using session bus.
/usr/bin/firefox: line 128: 10537 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" rcc@Athelon:~>
Do you have accessibility turned on? Or maybe the at-spi packages installed? If you can in control center under 'Assistive Technologies' make sure its off and if it was on turn it off and log out so that the setting change could take affect and try firefox again. If that doesn't work, try removing, if they are installed, at-spi at-spi2-core at-spi2-atk python-atspi. There might be a bunch of packages that complain. Also, was this an upgrade or a fresh install? Cheers, Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 07 May 2010 10:45:40 you wrote:
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:42, Richard Creighton <ricreig@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 06 May 2010 18:15:28 you wrote:
On 05/06/2010 04:34 PM, Richard Creighton wrote:
Ever since updating to >= 3.0 Firefox, I get some variation of the following:
rcc@Athelon:~> firefox returned PAC proxy string: direct *** nss-shared-helper: Shared database disabled (set NSS_USE_SHARED_DB to enable).
** (firefox:10537): WARNING **: AT-SPI: Accessibility bus not found - Using session bus.
/usr/bin/firefox: line 128: 10537 Segmentation fault $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" rcc@Athelon:~>
Do you have accessibility turned on? Or maybe the at-spi packages installed? If you can in control center under 'Assistive Technologies' make sure its off and if it was on turn it off and log out so that the setting change could take affect and try firefox again. If that doesn't work, try removing, if they are installed, at-spi at-spi2-core at-spi2-atk python-atspi. There might be a bunch of packages that complain.
Also, was this an upgrade or a fresh install?
Cheers, Stephen
Thank you Setphen, This was an upgrade from the M6 ISO which I have done in the same way since v9.6 and on and for each beta cycle since early 10.x and 11.x and now 11.x Mn skipping only 11M5 which failed to install as an upgrade leaving a blank screen unfinished reboot requiring me to restore the image/backup and wait for M6 iso to be able to do the iso update. Prior to that, I did a zypper dup update from factory of M5 for my testing of M5 but Firefox had already failed by then when 3.6.x came out and I went back to 3.5.9 to get it to work. No, no accessitility features of any kind, no at-spi packages of any kind that I am aware of. The only package is the one for ABP (ad-block), but that is functional on every machine I own including the failed machine (when running 3.5.9) so I don't feel that is part of the problem. While I will consider a fresh install on this machine, This machine is a very complicated machine (as is the one that does work in the other room) because it has many drives, uses a 'Rocket-raid' disk controller to provide additional sata drives used in a raid 5 array (in this case, I use the software raid 5) using the extra drives as 4x 1TB drives in the array. The other internal sata drives using the mbd controller (3 drives) are used as / and /home and /srv and /boot with all but /boot being in a LVM not part of the raid 5 array which is used as /local and stores data (/multimedia) as a subfolder of /home. This machine is NOT a production machine and it is intentionally complicated because I want to test openSuSE's ability to handle complicated setups for my businesses which DO have even more complicated storeage requirements including distributed raid arrays which will take advantage of ext4's ability to handle that. So, I'm not anxious to do a cold install just to fix a browser when 3.5.9 WORKSs perfectly and the upgrade version fails muster. I hope you understand. I do feel that all the changes in the infrastructure of openSuSE, Xorg, PackageKit, Ext4, rsyslog, and a host of others eg, Gnome, KDE and lord knows what else makes this 11.3 MUCH MORE than a POINT incremental upgrade of SuSE/openSuSE, it is a MAJOR UPGRADE making this a preALPHA 12.0 version release upgrade IMO and not just a Firefox issue. I see openSuSE making the same mistake with this VERSION change as KDE made with it's VERSION change from KDE3 to KDE4, eg, releasing KDE4.0 as a replacement for KDE3 before it was ready...eg, KDE 4.4.2 was the first really "ready" replacement for KDE3, but that is another issue. While it may be a simple Firefox failure, or one of its' subpackages, it is also possible the upgrade earthquake of the infrastructrure has kicked the chair out from underneath the browser and this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, so to speak. I suffered a stroke a while back, have residual Parkinsons which interfers with my ability to act and react effectively now so I no longer contribute actively as I used to in the 10.x period, but I do still "try" to be useful even though I am at the end of my "life-cycle" for all intents and purposes. In any event, Thanks for your response in private but I'm :CCing my reply because your suggestions were valid even though they turned out not to be the solution, others may have success with that route as this problem may have multiple causes. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-05-07 19:08, Richard Creighton wrote:
On Friday 07 May 2010 10:45:40 you wrote:
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:42, Richard Creighton <> wrote: ... In any event, Thanks for your response in private but I'm :CCing my reply because your suggestions were valid even though they turned out not to be the solution, others may have success with that route as this problem may have multiple causes.
Actually, he posted to the list, with a copy to you. But you use gmail, and one of gmail's "features" is that it silently removes what it thinks are duplicate emails. Your account gets first the direct email (shorter route), and next the email via the list server: as it has the same message id, it is considered a duplicate, and thus removed. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvkqj0ACgkQU92UU+smfQUa3ACdHHI1edMiVH7+Q5+4TMfc5UNq bCgAnRc0/cKeNfPlNcGhMZv7KOpVMmdQ =qebY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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