--- On Fri, 4/2/10, David García Granda dgranda@gmail.com wrote:
From: David García Granda dgranda@gmail.com Subject: Firefox not running: unable to load XPCOM (was Re: ) To: "Community support for Fedora users" users@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: "Don Vogt" dnvot@yahoo.com Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 3:48 AM Hi Don,
or advice would be appreciated.
Is it possible for you to check if XPCOM
files related
from VirtualBox
conflict with Firefox/xulrunner ones?.
Maybe something
not compatible
from VirtualBox is loaded instead of the
right one.
The OP should first try
- starting firefox in safe mode `firefox
-safe-mode' and
see whether any of the add-ons are to blame.
Did that - no change
- If that doesn't work, try looking for
unreleased lock
files for firefox.
$ cd ~/.mozilla $ find -type f -name '*lock'
If any are found delete them and try again.
found .parentlock files in each profile. Deleted
them and got the same result ( unable to load XPCOM)
3. If none of the above works try creating a new
user and
start firefox there.
Created a new user and opened a terminal to run
firefox again "unable to load XPCOM"
And finally if none of the above work appeal
to the
collective knowledge of the list with the results from
the above.
OK I will attack VirtualBox to see if I can glean
any info about dependencies and the look at removing it
I have VirtualBox installed and am having no problems
with Firefox.
Uhmmm... this may point us to some misconfiguration on Don's environment. Let's try with the following:
1.- Did you try strace (strace -o strace.log firefox)?. If not, please do it and post trace output file (strace.log in the example mentioned) for inspection.
2.- Which architecture are you running (i686, x86_64)?. Do you have mixed libraries?
3.- Can you paste the content of configuration files stored under /etc/gre.d/?
Regards,
David
output of strace -o strace.log firefox Couldn't load XPCOM.
the only file under /etc/gre.d is gre.conf
sudo cat /etc/gre.d/gre.conf [1.9.1.9] GRE_PATH=/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1 xulrunner=true abi=x86-gcc3[donvogt@localhost ~]$
I am running kernel 2.6.32.10-90.fc12.i686 on a i686 athlon I have no mixed libraries
I apologize for my screwed up messages. My excuses are 1. I am an old man 2. I just had some tooth roots extracted 3. I am on codiene for the pain 4. I use digests and find replying to several messages at the same time confusing. 5.No excuse sir. I will try to be more careful. (I have stopped the codiene.)
I really appreciate the help. I am well above my depth here.