no browser working in 14.04

Have you tried running the browsers from terminal?

Do you get any onscreen output when you try to launch the browser?

it's inconsistent. most of the time I do get a dialog box that tells me the app has crashed and wants to send in the report (which I do). Unfortunately, I can't copy and paste the info from the dialog box. A screen shot would do, except it doesn't show the whole dialog. Is there a verbose way to capture the crash and resulting log?

W

I just got these two errors. The first originally came when I installed pepper along with chromium and added the windows fonts. Data files for some packages could not be downloaded

The following packages requested additional data downloads after package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be processed.

ttf-mscorefonts-installer

This is a permanent failure that leaves these packages unusable on your system. You may need to fix your Internet connection, then remove and reinstall the packages to fix this problem.

I removed them yesterday thru the gui, however I find this message popped up on my screen today.

then, when I fired up gedit (from terminal) I receive this notification:

(gedit:10863): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

It seems there is something going on (or not) in gnome?

W

I have not tried this, but this site has information that you might use.

https://launchpad.net/~skunk/+archive/pepper-flash

The terminal command

sudo dpkg --configure -a

might solve the problem with ttf-mscorefonts-installer. If you try that, what is the output?

As I had not started using this machine at all yet, I low level formatted my disks and reinstalled 14.04 from scratch. I have 2 18.4 ultra 160 scsi disks and an adaptec 29160 adapter and I installed using LVM. After working once, firefox crashes silently again, and the little ubuntu browser has never opened for me either time. I havent tried installing chromium this time, or any other browser, as I don't wish to waste my time with this any longer if it's not gonna work. Has anyone else run into anything like this? I did allow the software center to update before attempting to do anything. Any ideas?

action parsnip - I did try launching from terminal with same results and no screen output

Michael - This was relevent previously, but has been automated in the software center now as far as I can tell. As I mentioned, I have decided not to try chromium at this time, as I'll try another flavor if this doesn't work out.

Manfred Hampl - Thank you for the hint regarding the mscorefonts-installer. I will keep that in mind if I can ever get a browser to work in this distro

Thanks, all of you, for trying to help! Is there something I can do to provide us with clues?

Wayne

I got firefox to run from terminal. Had to type sudo first. Didn't think I'd need to do that in order to start the program. when I didn't type sudo, this is what I got:

(process:10189): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

(firefox:10189): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised

(firefox:10189): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised

(firefox:10189): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised

(firefox:10189): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised
Could not create gnome accelerators directory `/home/wchastings/.gnome2/accels': Permission denied
wchastings@xp2500:~$ sudo firefox

(process:10197): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

(firefox:10197): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised

(firefox:10197): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised

(firefox:10197): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised

(firefox:10197): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised
1403116395700 addons.repository WARN Unknown type id when parsing addon: 5

Why can't I start from icon - is authentication required to start the program? Where can I set this option?

this is what shows up after firefox is running in the terminal window:

(process:10285): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

(firefox:10285): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised

(firefox:10285): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised

(firefox:10285): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised

(firefox:10285): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised

(firefox:10285): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 2209 was not found when attempting to remove it
TypeError: external.getUnityObject is not a function
TypeError: external.getUnityObject is not a function
TypeError: external.getUnityObject is not a function
TypeError: external.getUnityObject is not a function
TypeError: external.getUnityObject is not a function
TypeError: external.getUnityObject is not a function

It appears that I have a memory leak. When I manipulate my storage using lvm, this pops up:

no talloc stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4864, leaking memory
  LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Copy% Convert
  root ubuntu-vg -wi-ao--- 32.82g
  swap_1 ubuntu-vg -wi-ao--- 1020.00m

Please advise....

Wayne

I await someone's analysis/advice....

W

so I finally figured everything out on my own. There were a couple of issues. Regarding the no talloc stackframe issue, research turned up that I could run pam-auth-update and uncheck smb password syncronization (on a thread on this forum somewhere as a bug 1257186). The other issue was a permission issue, and I can't now remember the name of the folder or file, but I had to perform a chown command and change the owner from my username to root, I think. Then Firefox, and later Chromium both fired up just fine. Now, however, Chromium runs REALLY slowly and I don't know why yet. Any ideas?

so I finally figured everything out on my own. There were a couple of issues. Regarding the no talloc stackframe issue, research turned up that I could run pam-auth-update and uncheck smb password syncronization (on a thread on this forum somewhere as a bug 1257186). The other issue was a permission issue, and I can't now remember the name of the folder or file, but I had to perform a chown command and change the owner from my username to root, I think. Then Firefox, and later Chromium both fired up just fine. Now, however, Chromium runs REALLY slowly and I don't know why yet. Any ideas?

Found it!

Here is what I had to do to change permissions:

Open a terminal , su to root and type chown -R yourname:yourname /home/yourname with yourname being your user name that you are using.

example:

[root@localhost ~]# chown -R texstar:texstar /home/texstar
chown: cannot access `/home/texstar/.gvfs': Permission denied (you can ignore this)
[root@localhost ~]#

@Wayne

Thanks for that.

Kubuntu 14.04. New install. Everything was fine until today and then...weird.

followed your suggestion:

In a terminal

sudo chown -R myname:myname /home/myname/.gnome2

All fixed :)

Using gksudo for GUI applications will stop that happening.