From: Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com Subject: Re: firefox lockups after update
Vincent Onelli writes:
I tried all suggestions, firefox is still not load it appears as if try, the "starting firefox ..." appears at the bottom of screen for few seconds and then disappears. So it is time to do a full installation? I will wait while just in case there may be some new idea to try. Thanks to all of you.
This shouldn't be this difficult to troubleshoot.
Step 1:
touch /forefsck shutdown -r now
This reboots Fedora. Upon reboot, all your partitions auto-fscked. This should fix any filesystem corruption that might result in application failures, like Firefox.
Step 2:
rpm -e firefox yum install firefox
This removes and reinstalls Firefox, which would fix any unlikely application corruption.
If Firefox still fails to start up:
Step 3:
mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.save
This removes -- renames actually -- the Firefox configuration directory. The next time Firefox starts, it will create an empty, default, configuration. If Firefox now runs, you had a problem with a corrupted/bad configuration. You, of course, will lose all your bookmarks and extensions. If this fixes your problem, you can later try to recover to salvage and recover whatever your can, from your saved configuration directory.
If Firefox still fails to load, there are only two possibilities:
A. You're hitting a bone-fide bug in Firefox, for some reason.
B. Somehow, some unknown system libraries got corrupted.
You may be able to obtain some clues by running "firefox" from a terminal window, which would dump any errors that Firefox barfs to standard output or standard error, which you would not ordinary see when starting Firefox from the desktop.
Step 1, and 2 did not work, but step 3 did, firefox restored! By the way running firefox from terminal worked too and it did not showed any error. This is great, you guys saved me a lot of reinstallation time. Thank you so much to every body for helping me. Vinny