On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:13 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Bob Taylor wrote: > > After installing my backup of /home and seeing firefox not restart, I > > started it from the command line with the immediate error: > > > > Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.5 and 1.9.0.5. > > > > I'm sorry, I'm at a complete loss. What's a GRE? > > It's probably misspelt and something on your disk was eaten by a GRUE. > > Try "sudo xulrunner --register-global", because somehow firefox believes > that it cannot find a working xulrunner instance on your machine. > > Do that *after* you checked that firefox and xulrunner are updated to > the latest versions: Your first request. # rpm -q firefox xulrunner firefox-3.0.5-1.el5.centos xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.el5 Your second request. # xulrunner --register-global # This returns nothing. > [angenenr at shutdown ~]$rpm -q firefox xulrunner > firefox-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.x86_64 > xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.el5.x86_64 > [angenenr at shutdown ~]$ > > Cheers, > > Ralph > > PS: A GRE really isn't as fearsome as a GRUE is, a GRE is just the Gecko > Runtime Environment. > PPS: Depending on how you have been socialized: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grue_(monster)> I thank you! Will peruse the above URL when I have a working Firefox. This was working before hard drive change. -- Bob Taylor