Browser Inititation Bug

Bug #154196 reported by Eddie M.
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Rolf Leggewie

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox

On attempting to load Firefox in Gutsy for the first time, the following error was given:

Could not initialize the browsers' security component. The most likely cause is a problem with files in your browser's profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is not full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the browser and fix the problem.If you continue to use this browser session, you might see incorrect browser behavior when accessing security features.

This is output in terminal for 'firefox --p'

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 156
  Major opcode: 145
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 156
  Major opcode: 145
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 156
  Major opcode: 145
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 156
  Major opcode: 145
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

After opening, I deleted the old profile and created a new one. No errors occurred after this.

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Did you actually do the obvious and look into what was suggested by the error message?

Changed in mozilla-firefox:
assignee: nobody → r0lf
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Did you use Firefox prior to "installing it" Or was this install Gutsy and Firefox gives that error?
Is this a one time error?
Can you reproduce this bug anymore With Firefox-2 or Firefox-3
What version of Ubuntu if different that Gutsy?

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 154196] [NEW] Browser Inititation Bug

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 09:50:29AM -0000, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> You have been subscribed to a public bug:
>
> Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox
>
> On attempting to load Firefox in Gutsy for the first time, the following
> error was given:

make sure that you have really the latest gutsy packages for
everything.

maybe run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and see what would get removed.

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided.
Please feel free to reopen this bug with further information if you
still experience this problem.

Thank you for your help in making ubuntu the best distro out there.

Changed in firefox:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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