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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #287194,
regarding Silently fails when profile directory is unreadable/unwritable
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.0~rc2-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
My system is clean having only just been installed.
Iceweasel fails to start, from the console iceweasel just silently exits.
iceweasel -g output below
ben@thor:/var/log$ iceweasel -g
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) set pagination off
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin -a firefox
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
Executing new program: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/xulrunner-stub
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb7cc26c0 (LWP 7672)]
bt full
Program exited with code 01.
(gdb) bt full
No stack.
(gdb)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 2.29 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.6.0-1 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.10-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.1-3 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.7-8 /proc file system utilities
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xulrunner-1.9 1.9~rc2-4 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
Subject: iceweasel: Iceweasel silently fails to start
Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.0~rc2-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 2.29 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.6.0-1 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.10-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.1-3 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.7-8 /proc file system utilities
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xulrunner-1.9 1.9~rc2-4 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel 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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