Firefox will not start under Dapper 6.06

What ubuntu version are you running? Find this by issuing 'dpkg -l mozilla-browser|grep ^ii' (without the quotes) at a command prompt. If that fails, try 'dpkg -l mozilla-firefox|grep ^ii' and post the output here.

I presume that -l actually means -I (for Info). The output is the same for mozilla-browser, mozilla-firefox and firefox:
dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `mozilla-browser': No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `mozilla-firefox': No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `firefox': No such file or directory

firefox was installed using synaptic (and it was then uninstalled and re-installed, using apt-get).

I noticed that I get exactly the same for whatever package name I enter.
The version given in synaptic is 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.5-0ubuntu6.06-1

After reading the man pages for dpkg, I realize that the -l option does exist, it was simply the grep that didn't find anything. Here is the output:

pn mozilla-browser <none> (no description available)

pn mozilla-firefox <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-dev <none> (no description available)
un mozilla-firefox-dom-insp <none> (no description available)
un mozilla-firefox-gnome-su <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-a <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-a <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-a <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-b <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-c <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-c <none> (no description available)
un mozilla-firefox-locale-d <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-d <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-d <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-d <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-e <none> (no description available)
ii mozilla-firefox-locale-e 1.5.0.1ubuntu6-2 Mozilla Firefox English language/region package
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-e <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-e <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-e <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-e <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-f <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-f <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-f <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-g <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-g <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-h <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-h <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-i <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-j <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-k <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-m <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-n <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-n <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-p <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-p <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-p <none> (no description available)
pn mozilla-firefox-locale-p <n...

I've got 1.7.12-1.1ubuntu2 for mozilla-browser here. You don't seem to have that installed. Please 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mozilla-browser' and tell us if that fixes it?

Thanks,
CMP

Installed mozilla-browser 1.7.12-1.1ubuntu2, no change in behaviour.

Wolfgang,

Is this still and issue?

Thanks
David

David,

Yes, nothing has changed. I have so far not upgraded to 6.10, so let me know
what tests you want me to run and I will provide the data.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Schulze-Zachau

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
David Farning
Sent: 08 December 2006 23:17
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 60138] Re: Firefox will not start under Dapper 6.06

Wolfgang,

Is this still and issue?

Thanks
David

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => David Farning

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Firefox will not start under Dapper 6.06
https://launchpad.net/bugs/60138

Would try starting firefox from the commandline with

firefox

And report back with the results.

David

When I try and start firefox from the command line I get this:

/usr/lib/firefox:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins

and then I am back at the prompt.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Schulze-Zachau

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
David Farning
Sent: 12 December 2006 22:30
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 60138] Re: Firefox will not start under Dapper 6.06

Would try starting firefox from the commandline with

firefox

And report back with the results.

David

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Firefox will not start under Dapper 6.06
https://launchpad.net/bugs/60138

Please start firefox from command line using mozilla-firefox does it than work?

Hi John,

Tried that already, no difference.
Is it possible that firefox doesn't like the /usr/lib/ path being on a link?
I ran out of space and had to move the whole lot to another partition.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Schulze-Zachau

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of John
Vivirito
Sent: 04 February 2007 17:43
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 60138] Re: Firefox will not start under Dapper 6.06

Please start firefox from command line using mozilla-firefox does it
than work?

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Firefox will not start under Dapper 6.06
https://launchpad.net/bugs/60138

Does starting firefox from command line using "firefox -safe-mode" without the " stop this problem?

No, I still get the same response. After I enter the command, the console says:
/usr/lib/firefox:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
and then it returns to the prompt.

Can you please run "apt-cache policy firefox" and paste the output here? What version of ubuntu are you seeing htis on? Still dapper?

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:23:09AM -0000, Wolfgang SZ wrote:
> No, I still get the same response. After I enter the command, the console says:
> /usr/lib/firefox:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
> and then it returns to the prompt.
>

Please be sure that there are no firefox processes running after
upgrade. In case you don't know how, just restart your system.

 - Alexander

output of apt-cache policy firefox, as requested by John Vivirito:

root@gateway:/etc/bind# apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.5-0ubuntu6.06.1
  Candidate: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.10-0ubuntu0.6.06.2
  Version table:
     1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.10-0ubuntu0.6.06.2 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
 *** 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.5-0ubuntu6.06.1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages

Alexander asked me to check that there are no other firefox processes running. I ran this command:
ps aux | grep fire
and the result is:
root 3409 0.0 0.1 2892 820 pts/1 S+ 20:00 0:00 grep fire
which indicates that there are no other firefox processes running.

Wolfgang im running firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.10-0ubuntu0.6.06.2 and i am unablet o reproduce this bug. Can you please upgrade to that version and see if it fixes it for you also? Are you trying to run it as root or as user?

I am running as user when I am working from that machine itself and as root when I use a putty session with X output forwarded to my windows machine.
I will try to update and then let you know the results.

Is this still a problem for anyone?

No idea, I am not running Ubunutu any longer. I am now on Debian and I
haven't got a problem with firefox.

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:31 +0000, John Vivirito wrote:
> Is this still a problem for anyone?
>

Closing due to user doesnt use Ubuntu any longer so cant get anymore info.

Firefox doesn't start under gutsy, too.
The following error happens most of time:

The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 1324 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Lajevardi, Can you please "run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)"
See if that gives a better error that can help us more, Please remove any extenstions that you have installed and see if this issue goes away. What graphics card do you have and what drivers are you using?

Lajevardi, Please open a new bug report for your issue and attach the above info on it and check if you have another firefox process open.

Thanks John Vivirito, I'll do it asap.