Hi all,
I recently installed Debian Lenny onto an EeePC 701. I installed
"firefox" with apt-get, which I believe is just a wrapper for
installing iceweasel.
However, if I try to launch either "iceweasel" or "firefox" from an
xterm, nothing happens, and there is no helpful console output.

$ iceweasel
$
<no new window>

$ firefox
$
<no new window>

I have tried purging iceweasel and firefox with aptitude, then
reinstalling, to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Elijah Rutschman


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elijah rutschman wrote:

Hi all,
I recently installed Debian Lenny onto an EeePC 701. I installed
"firefox" with apt-get, which I believe is just a wrapper for
installing iceweasel.
However, if I try to launch either "iceweasel" or "firefox" from an
xterm, nothing happens, and there is no helpful console output.

$ iceweasel
$
<no new window>

$ firefox
$
<no new window>

I have tried purging iceweasel and firefox with aptitude, then
reinstalling, to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.



What does:

iceasel -safe-mode


show?

Hugo


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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
> What does:
>
> iceasel -safe-mode
>
>
> show?

Running:
$ iceweasel --safe-mode

gives the same result: there is no new window, and no console output.

Thanks,
Elijah


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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, elijah rutschman <elijahr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Running:
> $ iceweasel --safe-mode

Sorry, I meant to type iceweasel -safe-mode, with one dash before
'safe'. The result was the same, no window or output.
-Elijah


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elijah rutschman wrote:

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, elijah rutschman <elijahr@gmail.com> wrote:

Running:
$ iceweasel --safe-mode


Sorry, I meant to type iceweasel -safe-mode, with one dash before
'safe'. The result was the same, no window or output.


Try this:

define a new user, any user:

adduser mickey

then logon to X as that user that you just added.

Then try iceweasel again, logged on as that user.

Hugo


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On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:52:02AM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote:
> Hi all,
> I recently installed Debian Lenny onto an EeePC 701. I installed
> "firefox" with apt-get, which I believe is just a wrapper for
> installing iceweasel.
> However, if I try to launch either "iceweasel" or "firefox" from an
> xterm, nothing happens, and there is no helpful console output.
>
> $ iceweasel
> $
> <no new window>
>
> $ firefox
> $
> <no new window>
>
> I have tried purging iceweasel and firefox with aptitude, then
> reinstalling, to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

Try:

$ mozilla

>
> Thanks,
> Elijah Rutschman
>
>
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On 12/04/08 11:46, elijah rutschman wrote:

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:

What does:

iceasel -safe-mode


show?


Running:
$ iceweasel --safe-mode

gives the same result: there is no new window, and no console output.


Just for kicks, you might want to run top(1) and kill any process
that has anything to do with xulrunner.


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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
> Try this:
>
> define a new user, any user:
>
> adduser mickey
>
> then logon to X as that user that you just added.
>
> Then try iceweasel again, logged on as that user.

That worked! If you were thinking it was my profile, you were right.
I deleted the ~/.mozilla folder for the original user and was able to
succefully start iceweasel. I think the initial profile creation may
have been interrupted.

Before that, I had tried running "mozilla" to no avail, and top wasn't
showing any xul-runner instances. I appreciate the suggestions.

Thank you.

Elijah


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elijah rutschman wrote:

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:

Try this:

define a new user, any user:

adduser mickey

then logon to X as that user that you just added.

Then try iceweasel again, logged on as that user.


That worked! If you were thinking it was my profile, you were right.
I deleted the ~/.mozilla folder for the original user and was able to
succefully start iceweasel. I think the initial profile creation may
have been interrupted.

Before that, I had tried running "mozilla" to no avail, and top wasn't
showing any xul-runner instances. I appreciate the suggestions.



It just so happened that I got this "iceweasel does nothing" thing a
couple of days ago with 2 or my users. It turned out to be permissions:
iceweasel does nothing if the permissions are not right in the home dir.

You can set them right with:

chown -hR <userid>:<usergroup> /home/<user dir>/

Hugo


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