FC2: firefox won't run after installing search and mouse plugins

From: Frank Rehwinkel (redback_frank_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/31/04

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    Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 17:44:19 -0700 (PDT)
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    Just put FC2 on a second machine at home. It's great.
     Kudoes to the developers and testers.

    For days, I've had firefox installed and running fine.
    I had used apt and synaptic to get/install the
    package.
    Firefox was made the default gnome browser. All good.
     Very good.

    Today I decided to load some plugins. I added about
    eight search plugins and the mouse gestures plugin.
    All as a regular user (i.e. not root). There was one
    error message that popped to the screen during the
    mouse gestures install which I think had to do with
    not being able to write or create to a file. I didn't
    note the error, thinking the install would just be
    aborted. The next popup indicated the install had
    completed successfully. So, wondering if it had or
    had not installed properly, I closed my firefox
    program and tried to start it back up.

    But it won't start. The symptom, when typing firefox
    in a shell, is that after a few seconds, it ends.
    Nothing writen to stdout or stderr. Nothing pops up.
    No new process created. If I try to start it from the
    gnome panel, a see a "Starting Web browser" window
    being created, but after a few seconds it disappears.

    I've uninstalled firefox, and reinstalled it, to no
    avail. I searched for a ~/.firefox directory. One
    didn't exist. I've moved the ~/.mozilla directory out
    of the way and the ~/.phoenix directory out of the
    way, still no good. I uninstalled firefox again, and
    moved the /usr/lib/firefox directory out of the way.
    And reinstalled firefox. Still no good. I moved
    /usr/lib/mozilla out of the way, and still firefox
    just returns immediately.

    I have not tried rebooting, but as this isn't Windows,
    I wouldn't expect that to help.

    What file/directory am I missing? Or what package
    dependancy have I broken by uninstalling firefox and
    reinstalling (all via synaptic)? I may have made the
    problem worse during this debugging because firefox
    won't start under my root login any longer either.
    But admittedly I had installed the mouse gesture
    plugin there too, but at least saw it work once as
    root. That install didn't cause a file/directory
    failure message to be printed. I did not install the
    search plugins as root though. Now after the
    uninstall/reinstall. Even root can't get firefox to
    do anything.

    -stuck

            
                    
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