Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg-4 Followup-For: Bug #348019 I have also reproduced this bug here. However, it worked for me with a non-root user (another user account than the one that I regularly use), so it is not a permissions problem. There was a .mozilla directory in the other users home directory before I started firefox; I moved it away and it worked. I removed the new .mozilla directory and moved the original one back, it worked now as well! Unfortunately, I didn't make a backup of the original .mozilla directory so I am unable to tell the last Firefox version run from the prefs.js.
I have also run firefox with the -g parameter, to run it in gdb. The weird thing is that it actually WORKS when run in gdb, so there is some side effect of gdb that causes it to work... And even stranger is that at first when I tried it with -g it segfaulted there as well. It might be because of remnant firefox processes in the system or something.... Since it works for me now when run with -g, it is a bit hard to debug it. ;-) [ Fiddling around a bit more ] I have managed to localize the problem; it is with esddsp. When I set FIREFOX_DSP in /etc/firefox/firefoxrc to a junk value ("meep"), it worked! The output of firefox --verbose without this change: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox --verbose FIREFOX_DSP=esddsp APPLICATION_ID=firefox CMDLINE_DISPLAY= DISPLAY=:0.0 OPTIONS= DEBUG=0 DEBUGGER= Running: esddsp /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox ...and with the change: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox --verbose FIREFOX_DSP=meep APPLICATION_ID=firefox CMDLINE_DISPLAY= DISPLAY=:0.0 OPTIONS= DEBUG=0 DEBUGGER= Running: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox My only question now is, why did it work with my other user account? I was running two X sessions at the same time, and it turned out this was the problem: esd was running in mine, but not the other! So firefox --verbose in the account that worked showed that esddsp was not being run, which is the reason it worked. Conclusion: esddsp is somehow causing this. Here is my package info for esdound-clients which includes esddsp. Package: esound-clients Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 168 Maintainer: Ryan Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: amd64 Source: esound Version: 0.2.36-2 Depends: libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libesd0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35), esound-common (>= 0.2.36-2) Conflicts: libesd0 (<< 0.2.36-1), libesd-alsa0 (<< 0.2.36-1) Description: Enlightened Sound Daemon - clients Utilities that control and interact with the Enlightened Sound Daemon. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install esound-clients Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done esound-clients is already the newest version. The workaround to this, for now, is to: 1) disable esd altogheter (to be able to have sound in firefox) OR 2) disable the esd wrapper (by setting a junk value in /etc/firefox/firefoxrc) and have sound in all other apps than firefox. To Jesus Christ be the Glory, for helping me in finding this! -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-9-amd64-k8 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-6 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System Input extension li ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System multi-head display ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System printing extension ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii psmisc 22.1-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime firefox recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]