Fedcora 2 X86_64 mozilla problem
Phil Dybvig
fedora at ducksoup.afree.net
Sun Jul 11 03:31:03 UTC 2004
Cyrus --
>
>Well I'm not getting the getcwd error anymore. Now when I run firefox it
>just returns without doing anything:
>
>[cyrus at teddy cyrus]$ firefox
>[cyrus at teddy cyrus]$ firefox
>[cyrus at teddy cyrus]$ ps -A | grep firefox
>[cyrus at teddy cyrus]$
>
>Nothing happens. No windows, no error messages...
>
Hmmm, just guessing, but could you have a plugin problem? I usually put plugins
in ~/.mozilla/plugins but there are other system plugin directories
(/usr/lib/firefox/plugins, /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins,
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins and maybe more). Temporarily removing plugins
(except libnullplugin.so) from those directories might solve the problem.
Other than that, I would try fishing around for more information. Are there two
conflicting versions? Try 'rpm -qa' | grep firefox'. Is the installation
corrupt? Try 'rpm -V firefox'. Is there another executable? Try and see
whether cd '~;/usr/bin/firefox' gives a different result from 'cd ~;firefox'.
I hate to say this, but I wonder whether the rpm version we are using has most
of the error messages turned off. I know I get fewer errors from this version,
but maybe that is not entirely due to improvements in the compilation. Failing
silently is not very useful.
I assume that your problem can fixed, since I have this same RPM running in FC2,
x86_64 on my machine. However, besides plugins I am not sure what else could be
the problem. Maybe Justin Forbes is better placed to help. He authored the
FC2 86_64 FAQ http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html and some useful posts on this
list and he is probably the one who created the firefox RPM we are using.
-- Phil
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