On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:07:34 +1100 Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
On 26/01/12 18:50, Thomas Taylor wrote:
Hi everyone; 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. 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?
Thanks, Tom
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'.
BC
Hi Basil; Booted into 11.4 and ran e2fsck -f on all partitions used by 12.1 and they all checked out okay. I also copied the ~/.mozilla from 11.4 to 12.1 but that didn't change anything. FF works fine in 11.4 with the profile I copied. FF 9.0.1 was running ever since the GM release. Think I'll go for a low level format on my drives and re-install both 11.4 and 12.1. Fortunately I had backed up my "data" partition a week before this happened so have most of my documents, pictures, music, mail, etc except those in the last week or so. 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