Hello When starting up firefox-bin this morning I got the following dialog box popping up:
$ firefox-bin "Configuration Error" "Failed to read configuration file. Please contact your system administrator." After confirming with "OK" the firefox-bin process is terminated. No browser today for me :-( $ firefox-bin -version Mozilla Firefox 28.0 What I tried to do, without success: uninstalled and re-installed firefox-bin, cleaned the program directory and my configuration in between checked to run firefox-bin as root Checked whether there is a file named mozilla.cfg, there is none. created empty /opt/firefox/defaults/pref/mozilla.cfg added "//" to the first line of mozilla.cfg Safe mode pops up the same dialog box: $ firefox-bin -safe-mode Started the profile browser: $ firefox-bin -P The profile browser lets me delete and create profiles. But firefox still shows the dialog and quits. checked bugs (had to install chrome, but didn't like chrome): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833117 Checked with strace which files cannot be read: Just when the dialog box pops up I see: urs@Evo ~ $ strace -e trace=file -f firefox-bin <<snipped a lot of content here...>> access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome", F_OK) = 0 access("commonDialog.png", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog.png", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome", F_OK) = 0 access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog16.png", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog16.png", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome", F_OK) = 0 access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog32.png", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog32.png", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome", F_OK) = 0 access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog48.png", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog48.png", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome", F_OK) = 0 access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog.xpm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog.xpm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome", F_OK) = 0 access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog16.xpm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/commonDialog16.xpm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) This icons are really missing in my installation: urs@Evo ~ $ ls /opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/ default16.png default32.png default48.png I downgraded firefox-bin to the latest stable version 24.4.0 The icons from above are still not installed, but this version is starting up and is usable. So for me there is a workaround. I am still a little nervous about security concerns with an old browser version. Additional information here, some lines of the Gentoo emerge log history: urs@Evo ~ $ genlop firefox-bin Thu Mar 6 21:57:34 2014 >>> www-client/firefox-bin-27.0.1 Thu Mar 20 08:42:44 2014 >>> www-client/firefox-bin-28.0 Sat Mar 29 08:47:39 2014 >>> www-client/firefox-bin-28.0-r1 I am pretty sure that I had used firefox-bin-28.0 last week without troubles. So, is this just firefox-bin-28.0-r1? Anybody else seeing this? Thanks Urs
