On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 02:21 -0500, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:03 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> Mark Knecht wrote: > >>>> DAle, > >> Hi Dale, not quite the same but something else to check - after my > >> 6monthly update round, I had two systems where FF refused to run - just > >> flashed up died. Erase .mozilla allowed one restart where I got a > >> window, any attempt to configure it killed FF. > >> > >> This is on gnome, not KDE so while symptoms differ, it may still be the > >> same root cause - some of the underlying packages needed rebuilding - it > >> was (maybe) nss and dev-lang/spidermonkey. Sorry, had a lot going on so > >> cant be more specific - it was strace that tipped me off (how I cant > >> remember). > >> > >> BillK > >> > > > > I'm going to try a clean directory for it here in a minute. I'm going > > to back up my whole home directory for good measure. > > > > I'm not holding my breath but I'll cross my fingers just in case. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > > > OK. This is better. It seems to work. Can someone explain how a bad > config file in Firefox can cause a kernel panic? I thought things like > this was not possible? This sounds so windowish. o_O > > Thanks for all the help. It seems we had not one but two problems. If > it wasn't for bad luck . . . . . . > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
For me it wasnt the config file itself - but something the config did that dragged in another library that caused the grief. Once I fixed that I copied ythe old config back from the last backup and it kept working. BillK