Re: [rhelv5-list] Firefox won't run

[Hugh Brown]

Greg Cornell wrote:

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Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Firefox won't run

Greg Cornell wrote:

Hi List,

I'm having trouble with firefox on a RHEL 5.2 client workstation

(fully up to date).  It doesn't run as a normal user but runs fine as
root.  When I run the firefox command as a normal user, there aren't
any messages displayed, it just waits for about 4-5 minutes and then
gives me the prompt back.

I've tried Google, Red Hat's knowledgebase and bugzilla, and haven't

been able to find anything helpful.

I ran 'strace firefox' but didn't find anything in the output that

looked useful (to me at least, but I'm not an expert there).  I
attached the strace output for any of you that might what to look
through it.

I also ran 'ltrace firefox' which returned:
ltrace: Can't open ELF file "/usr/bin/firefox"

but the permissions seem fine to me:
-rwxr-xr-x  root root system_u:object_r:bin_t

/usr/bin/firefox

Any help you can give will be appreciated.

Greg Cornell

/usr/bin/firefox is a shell script, so you need to tell strace to
follow all forked sub process.

I do strace like so

strace -fvvvto strace-firefox.log -s 2048 /usr/bin/firefox

Then look through strace-firefox.log

The strace file you sent looks like it starts the actual binary
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox and which dies right away and returns as
much to the shell script.  The -f would allow you to see what it does
between forking and returning.

Hugh

Hi Hugh,

Thanks for your help.

That certainly produces way more output, but I still don't see anything 
helpful.  I think I've determined the problem is a NFS lock issue but I'm still 
trying to figure that out.  The new strace output file is too bit to send but I 
could get it to you somehow if you want to take a look at it.

Greg

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You could try removing the .parentlock and lock file in the firefox profile (making sure that it isn't running elsewhere)

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