Firefox wont open in Mandriva after running update

dolphans1 · 09-23-2009, 08:50 AM

I have researched this topic and have found no solutions that work. Firefox was running great last night, got an update notice for firefox, ran update this morning, and now it will not open.

Tried to uninstall and reinstall and still does not work.

When I run in Konsole I get this message "Couldn't load XPCOM" thus far I have found no solutions that seem to fix my problem.

I am running Mandriva Spring 2009 Powerpack.

Today is Septemeber 23, 2009, Wednesday 8:48am Central Standard Time.

I appreciate and recommendations.....

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FredGSanford · 09-23-2009, 09:46 AM

It could be broken dependencies. After googling around, I read to try reinstalling these:

Quote:

nss & xulrunner

to see what happens.

Also found this thread.

dolphans1 · 09-23-2009, 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FredGSanford

It could be broken dependencies. After googling around, I read to try reinstalling these:

to see what happens.

Also found this thread.

Tried doing both, and still unresolved.

Stuck using Konqueror as browser....

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dolphans1 · 09-23-2009, 09:58 AM

The thread you mentioned above is a 2008 thread. Though I am sure its related in some way or fashion, my problem remains unresolved. A few years ago I recall something similar happening.

I am hopeful its some sort of bug conflict that I hope gets fixed in a more current update.

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dolphans1 · 09-23-2009, 11:48 AM

Here is how I fixed my problem:

First I went to MCC and went to sources and added Main backports and Testing to my repositories.

Then I ran "urpmi --auto-update" in Konsole

Then "urpmi firefox"

Thanks for the help......

GlennsPref · 09-25-2009, 02:22 AM

Yes I think it was a dep, sqlite of a specific version was required.

Sorry I was late.

Cheers, Glenn

dolphans1 · 09-25-2009, 01:25 PM

No Problem Glenn, but here's what I noticed with the newer version of Firefox version 3.5.3 (64bit) (or whatever number that is) does not work right with Java when trying to open a sabre apellet window. Not sure if symlink gets broken or not. I had to go back and uninstall the newest version of Firefox and rainstall version 3.0.14.(64 bit)

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GlennsPref · 09-25-2009, 06:10 PM

Hi, I did too, for about three weeks, I kept trying out the new version, but I thing the installer is broken.

The firefox source should give better results, but there's a bit of mucking around to get it installed (in comparison to the rpm)

Keep talking about it, I'm sure the gods are watching.

Regards Glenn