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
On 11/10/05, slaton slaton@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
Josh,
Thanks for the ideas. However, this turned out to be something far more innocuous. I had a shell stacksize limit set that i'd forgotten about which apparently firefox and mozilla didn't like (d'oh).
slaton
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Josh Kelley wrote:
On 11/10/05, slaton slaton@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
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