Firefox GUI does not start in ubuntu 10.10

ps aux | grep firefox

fixed. deleted .mozilla folder. close ticket.
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John Lynch <email address hidden>

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 09:58 +0000, ap0stol wrote:
> Your question #131079 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/131079
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> ap0stol requested for more information:
> ps aux | grep firefox
>

If you use Thunderbird (now or in the future) I suggest you only delete ~/.mozilla/firefox as the Thunderbird config also resides in that folder.

Please mark as solved

ok, spoke prematurely...still will not fire GUI

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 10:57 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #131079 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/131079
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> If you use Thunderbird (now or in the future) I suggest you only delete
> ~/.mozilla/firefox as the Thunderbird config also resides in that
> folder.
>
> Please mark as solved
>

Can you launch the browser from terminal and give the output produced.

Thanks

command?..linux newbie

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 18:12 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #131079 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/131079
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> actionparsnip requested for more information:
> Can you launch the browser from terminal and give the output produced.
>
> Thanks
>

type:

firefox

If you try, you will learn more rather than simply asking.

starts gui....

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 18:40 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #131079 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/131079
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> type:
>
> firefox
>
> If you try, you will learn more rather than simply asking.
>

hangs though...only displays backround image of desktop...j

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 18:40 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #131079 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/131079
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> type:
>
> firefox
>
> If you try, you will learn more rather than simply asking.
>

Does it happen with other browsers?

nah...just FF...I use Chrome 99% of the time....only use FF to support
(1) bank login..the FF has an 'add-on' BANKID from digidoc.com to
support the bank login....J

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 19:03 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #131079 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/131079
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> actionparsnip requested for more information:
> Does it happen with other browsers?
>

Close FF.
Open a terminal:
top

Open another terminal:
tail -f -n 0 /var/log/syslog

Open another terminal:
/usr/bin/firefox

Compare outputs, anything odd?

Deactivate addons successive and test.

TOP

top - 15:53:36 up 2:40, 4 users, load average: 2.15, 1.23, 0.85
Tasks: 182 total, 2 running, 180 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 58.7%us, 12.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 28.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.0%st
Mem: 1025096k total, 1002696k used, 22400k free, 24148k buffers
Swap: 1502072k total, 20252k used, 1481820k free, 301460k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
COMMAND
 4009 jlynch 20 0 169m 31m 17m R 28.8 3.2 9:15.76
chrome
 1089 root 20 0 219m 25m 9984 S 20.3 2.5 5:58.92
Xorg
 2823 jlynch 20 0 50564 19m 2800 S 8.2 2.0 13:34.52
beam
 6834 jlynch 20 0 178m 74m 19m S 7.2 7.4 1:46.21
chrome
 5754 jlynch 20 0 93660 13m 10m S 3.9 1.4 0:03.29
gnome-terminal
 3042 jlynch 20 0 423m 94m 31m S 2.9 9.4 4:47.75
chrome
 2671 jlynch 20 0 35056 19m 3636 S 0.7 2.0 0:34.76
ubuntuone-syncd
13232 jlynch 20 0 2620 1128 824 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.59
top
 2712 jlynch 20 0 20948 13m 4036 S 0.3 1.4 0:22.76
desktopcouch-se
 2844 jlynch 30 10 24556 16m 3168 S 0.3 1.7 0:48.93
desktopcouch-se
    1 root 20 0 2880 1488 1116 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.69
init
    2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
kthreadd
    3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.13
ksoftirqd/0
    4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
migration/0
    5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
watchdog/0
    6 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.00
events/0
    7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
cpuset

TAIL

no response

/USR

no response

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 19:37 +0000, Sam wrote:
> Your question #131079 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/131079
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Sam requested for more information:
> Close FF.
> Open a terminal:
> top
>
> Open another terminal:
> tail -f -n 0 /var/log/syslog
>
> Open another terminal:
> /usr/bin/firefox
>
> Compare outputs, anything odd?
>

uncertain as to process/location of addon to deactivate.

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 19:39 +0000, Sam wrote:
> Your question #131079 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/131079
>
> Sam posted a new comment:
> Deactivate addons successive and test.
>

had a previous message regarding a symbolic link from maintainers off
addon (www.nexussafe.com):

The correct way to create a symbolic link to a directory must include
the -s flag. So the correct line should read:

sudo ln
-s /usr/local/lib/personal/libplugins.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 19:39 +0000, Sam wrote:
> Your question #131079 on firefox in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/131079
>
> Sam posted a new comment:
> Deactivate addons successive and test.
>

Could you do the testing with top, tail and only:
firefox

Also test FF in safe mode:
firefox -safe-mode
http://support.mozilla.com/en-us/kb/safe+mode

> FireFox 3.5 in Ubuntu 10.10

Actually we have 3.6
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firefox&searchon=names&suite=maverick&section=all

Was that an upgrade or new installation?
Maybe there're more versions installed and symbolic links are corrupted.
Please output of:
dpkg -l firefox* | grep ii

## where l is lower case of L

Extensions are in ~./mozilla/firefox/<profile_bunch_of_numbers_and_letters>/extensions
You can move any of the folders somewhere for exclusion.