If you were running Firefox with sudo, you'll run into issues. Please run:
chown -R MYUSER:MYUSER ~/.mozilla
where MYUSER is your system user name. Then try running Firefox normally
(firefox).
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933283
Title:
Fresh 10.04 upgrade, firefox won't run
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Upgraded to 10.04 from, I think it was 8.04? (it was pretty old).
Everything seemed to go ok, except sound and firefox. I found some
other web advice to do with fixing up alsa, so sound works now. But
still firefox will not start.
Click the icon, error window "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded.
It may be missing or inaccessible."
Try to start from command line, same window, and the following error
messages:
(firefox:2781): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
None of the authentication protocols specified are supported.
/home/tina/.esd_auth: Permission denied
I can check, and if /home/tina/.esd_auth actually exists, then I can
remove it and try again, same result. Sometimes that .esd_auth
reappears, sometimes it doesn't.
I have moved .mozilla off to .mozilla_old, afaik I have no profiles,
still can't open. I tried all sorts of options for firefox, like
-safe-mode, -ProfileManager, etc., all the same.
See als bug 23917
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/23917), seems to be the
same problem, never solved. One potential problem there was full disks, I don't
think that's me:
> df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.2G 5.5G 3.3G 63% /
none 484M 280K 484M 1% /dev
none 488M 1.3M 487M 1% /dev/shm
none 488M 116K 488M 1% /var/run
none 488M 0 488M 0% /var/lock
none 488M 0 488M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda3 56G 34G 20G 63% /data
/dev/sda4 7.6G 6.7G 499M 94% /windoze
Based on some other webpage, I rm -rf /tmp/.esd-1001/, but that didn't
help.
> uname -a
Linux starbuck 2.6.32-38-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 4 11:13:04 UTC 2012
i686 GNU/Linux
> firefox -v
Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1
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