Your message dated Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:33:13 +0200
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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #259215,
regarding mozilla-firefox: Initial/first startup fails "XDM authorization key
matches an existing client"
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Package: mozilla-firefox
Version: 1.0.2-3
Severity: important
When trying to start Firefox on a fresh sarge with a
fresh user (empty homedir), I get this problem:
(Got the same when I tried stracing and launching firefox-bin
directly.)
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
(firefox-bin:7221): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
If I first start a normal Mozilla browser and close it
and then start firefox, the first step works, but I get
this error:
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** loading the extensions datasource
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin: relocation error:
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin: undefined symbol:
NS_NewUnionEnumerator
So my error messages seems to be close to this bug:
Debian Bug report logs - #292931
mozilla-firefox: Firefox can't start - relocation error
When I now start Firefox again, it works.
So the workaround is: Start normal Mozilla, end it and
start Firefox twice, then it works the second time.
Another quick and dirty fix is to take "xhost +", start
Firefox and then take "xhost -". From then on it works.
So this probably only applies to new/fresh users. My user
is a NIS user if that has anything relevance.
Yours,
Filip
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=no_NO (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages mozilla-firefox depends on:
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkrb53 1.3.6-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System printing extension
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii psmisc 21.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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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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