#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
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
snip
Setting up xserver-xorg-core (2:1.6.4-2ubuntu4.3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred
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
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
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!
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firefox gives Couldn't
I hit same problem on AMD64 after upgrading 9.10, but, when I remove
libnss3-0d package, 3.5 package works fine
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firefox gives Couldn't load XPCOM. and does not start
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