Your message dated Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:33:13 +0200
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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #324791,
regarding firefox: Refuse to start after power failure
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324791: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=324791
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Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg-3
Severity: normal
After a power-failure, firefox refuses to start. It only give me a
window with the title "close firefox" and with a text saying that
firefox is already running and that I either have to close that
firefox or restart the system. I don't have any firefox running and a
restart of the system don't help at all.
In order to start firefox, I had to remove both the symlink lock AND
the file .parentlock in my profile. If I just remove the lock symlink,
I still get the same error message. It is not that easy to figure out
that you have to remove the .parentlock file...
/ Anders
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1,
'sarge-unsupported')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to sv_SE)
Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System printing extension
ii libxrandr2 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii psmisc 22.1-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
firefox recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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