[Bug 436190] Re: firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start
#I found a fix:
$ sudo aptitude remove xulrunner-1.9.1
# Then I said "n" (no) to the first three proposed solutions from
aptitude, (no idea if they would have worked) and eventually was
presented with
Downgrade the following packages:
xulrunner-1.9.1 [1.9.1.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 (karmic-updates,
karmic-security, now) -> 1.9.1.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu6 (karmic)]
Score is -9772
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
xulrunner-1.9.1
The following packages will be REMOVED:
firefox-3.5-gnome-support{a} firefox-gnome-support{a}
xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support{a}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 3 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 7,986kB of archives. After unpacking 524kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
and now firefox-3.5 (.9) works again. (Still, this isn't good news for
Ubuntu or normal users. I still have no idea which update put my install
in this position, or if it was something that I did.)
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[Bug 436190] Re: firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start
me too: # cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l $ firefox %u -safe-mode Couldn't load XPCOM. $ firefox-3.5 %u -safe-mode Couldn't load XPCOM. # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y Setting up xserver-xorg-core (2:1.6.4-2ubuntu4.3) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Processing triggers for python-support ... Errors were encountered while processing: xulrunner-1.9.1 xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) $ uname -a uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Chrome still works.. for now. -- firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 436190] Re: firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start
I found another bug report suggesting this is something to do with xulrunner, and suggesting that I check in /etc/gre.d for old config files. de...@serenity ~ $ ls -lh /etc/gre.d total 16K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 78 2009-12-16 01:41 1.9.0.16.system.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76 2009-12-16 00:15 1.9.1.6.system.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142 2008-08-25 13:19 libxul0d.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142 2008-08-25 13:14 xulrunner.conf de...@serenity ~ $ xulrunner --version Mozilla XULRunner 1.9.0.16 - 2009121601 de...@serenity ~ $ So maybe it should be using xulrunner 1.9.1 but isn't for some reason? I'm way out of my depth here :) Moving either config file aside didn't help. -- firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 436190] Re: firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start
I've just been hit by this today, I don't recall upgrading Firefox today but I presume I must have. I don't have the libnss3-0d package installed, so it's not that. I did have Firefox open and it stopped opening links from external applications (Xchat & Evolution) in new tabs, so I closed it and attempted to start it again to see if that would help - at this point it didn't re-load. When I tried to run it from the command line I got this: de...@serenity ~ $ firefox-3.5 Couldn't load XPCOM. de...@serenity ~ $ Any suggestions, or requests for more info? I can still run firefox (3.0) by the way, and the rest of my system seems fine so far. -- firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 436190] Re: firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start
As I had to reinstall Karmic from scratch (resizing of my system partition failed), I can't conform this. However, I do remember I installed this package for compiling a program ( I can't remember which program it was). So, I think this was indeed my problem. Thanks! -- firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 436190] Re: firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start
I hit same problem on AMD64 after upgrading 9.10, but, when I remove libnss3-0d package, 3.5 package works fine -- firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 436190] Re: firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32403404/Dependencies.txt -- firefox gives "Couldn't load XPCOM." and does not start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
