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 -- But when you take arms from people, then you start to upset them, you show you do not trust them because you are frightened or cagey. Niccolo Machiavelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org