Since installing the latest yum updates a couple of days ago, I'm unable
to start Firefox or Mozilla. Both fail silently with no messages printed
to console. This is a 32-bit dual Xeon box running Centos 4.2.
Here's what i've tried so far.
- uninstalled and reinstalled firefox and mozilla packages with yum.
- deleted my mozilla preferences (~/.mozilla) in case of a corrupted
profile.
- running as root. only difference is now mozilla segfaults instead of
failing silently.
- setting debug options in the firefox and mozilla startup scripts ("set
-x"). the debug output looks identical to another machine I have on which
firefox works, so this is no help.
- checked system logs.
Anyone with more knowledge of firefox/moz know what could cause a silent
failure like this? I can provide debug output if needed, but I didn't see
anything useful in it. Thanks.
slaton
Josh Kelley
2005-Nov-11 14:48 UTC
[CentOS] Unable to start Firefox/Mozilla after yum updates
On 11/10/05, slaton <slaton at ocf.berkeley.edu> wrote:> Since installing the latest yum updates a couple of days ago, I'm unable > to start Firefox or Mozilla. Both fail silently with no messages printed > to console. This is a 32-bit dual Xeon box running Centos 4.2.Try seeing if you have any plugins causing problems. For example, RHEL 4 currently has a bug with the Java plugin, although it doesn't cause problems at startup: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170447 Did you try running strace? From the command prompt, strace firefox or strace mozilla This will display a log of the system calls made by Firefox or Mozilla; often, the last few calls will give a clue as to what the problem is. Josh Kelley