On Thursday 02 April 2015 05:33:35 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 05:16:37 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > wordwrap off so as not to rip up long lines. > > > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 02:35:00 Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:54:02 -0400 > > > > > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > Iceweasel commited suicide when I was asked by my bank to delete > > > > its history, so now all I get is a blank terminal screen that is > > > > using 100% of a cpu core until I kill it as root. A total purge > > > > and reinstall didn't fix it. > > > > > > > > Chromium seems incapable of performing an online credit card > > > > transaction. And crashes anytime I go to abcnews.go.com > > > > > > > > So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked > > > > it into my home dirs bin subdir. But thats likely not going to > > > > be great as it probably looks someplace else for its libraries & > > > > such. > > > > > > > > So where is the std place it would normally live? If it can > > > > still find the old iceweasel password cache, that would be a > > > > huge plus. > > > > > > Just unpack it wherever you want it - /opt/firefox for example, > > > and put a symlink to the binary somewhere in your $PATH. It uses > > > the configuration and everything it can find in your home dir, so > > > that shouldn't be a problem. > > > > > > Petter > > > > Fun & games but not S&G. Network-Manager had the last word when I > > excised that piece of insanity, the SOB zeroed out the eth0 settings > > in /etc/network/interfaces. Bad dog, no biscuit from me. > > > > All discovered and I think fixed as I appear to have restored > > networking now. > > > > All triggered by discovering that the reason I was into swap all the > > time was that for the last 12 days I had been running a 32 bit rtai > > kernel which is NOT PAE, seems I need to edit the default number in > > /boot/grub/grub.cnf, it is not pointing at a 64 bit 3.2.0-4amd64 > > vmlinuz. That discovery in turn triggered by firefox spitting out a > > tummy ache on start attempts. > > > > I renamed the firefox script in /usr/bin/ which was actually running > > iceweasel to /usr/bin/firefux, then made a symlink from > > > > /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox from /usr/bin/firefox. > > > > So, rebooted to a true 64 bit kernel, but 64 bit firefox refuses to > > run: gene@coyote:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Apr 2 04:03 /usr/bin/firefox > > -> /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox Which is correct. But > > First try it like the renamed script does it: > > gene@coyote:~$ firefox "$@" > > bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory > > Then try w/o the argument. > > gene@coyote:~$ firefox > > bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory > > There is something wrong with your link, it links to a file it can't > find. If you run: > > petter@monster:~$ ln -s foo bar > petter@monster:~$ ./bar > bash: ./bar: No such file or directory > > (provided there is no file called "foo") you see you get the same > error. What does "ls -l /usr/bin/firefox" show you? > > > Its 5am, and I don't seem to have even one eye open > > simultaineously... > > Therefore you've probably mistyped your symlink, I would guess :) > > > The firefox binary itself > > gene@coyote:~$ ls -l bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gene gene 147776 Mar 26 23:51 > > bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox > > > > Its there and executable. I can't even run it from there with > > sh ./firefox > > or sh ./firefox-bin either of which gets this error: > > gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ sh ./firefox > > ./firefox: 2: ./firefox: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string > > Try "file firefox" - it will show you that it's not a script, it's a > binary. If you run it with just "./firefox" it should work. > > > I could use a clue, which will probably make me slap my forhead & > > yell Duh. > > Try some of the above, and report back what "file" and "ls -l" on the > symlink shows you if it doesn't work. The ls -l is above, file says gene@coyote:~$ file /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox: symbolic link to `/home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox'
gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ ./firefox bash: ./firefox: No such file or directory gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ ls application.ini crashreporter.ini firefox-bin libmozalloc.so libnssdbm3.chk libsmime3.so omni.ja run-mozilla.sh webapprt browser defaults gmp-clearkey libmozsqlite3.so libnssdbm3.so libsoftokn3.chk platform.ini Throbber-small.gif webapprt-stub chrome.manifest dependentlibs.list icons libnspr4.so libnssutil3.so libsoftokn3.so plugin-container updater components dictionaries libfreebl3.chk libnss3.so libplc4.so libssl3.so precomplete updater.ini crashreporter firefox libfreebl3.so libnssckbi.so libplds4.so libxul.so removed-files update-settings.ini gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ Maybe it will make sense when I wake up again. Thanks Petter > > Petter Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504020551.24449.ghesk...@wdtv.com