I found a fix for this. It was some sort of packaging problem, left over from earlier versions.
The directory /etc/gre.d (gecko rendering engine) contained a config file that specified earlier (and inappropriate) xulrunner versions. I discovered this while performing a dpkg -P xulrunner xulrunner-1.9 firefox firefox-3.0 (-P is purge-remove, which removes the config files as well as the binaries/libraries). dpkg reported an error, complaining that /etc/gre.d was not empty. Upon removing this directory, and reinstalling firefox-3, the troublesome error message went away, and firefox started working. I had to manually remove /etc/gre.d/1.9b4.system.conf -- it was this file that caused all the problems for me. -- Conflicts has not been updated for ~b4 (firefox cannot start after xulrunner upgrade) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201938 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
