Firefox does not start after update

[MartinM]

Binary package hint: firefox

After updating my KUbuntu (hardy) on 2008-07-13, Firefox won't start reporting "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.1 and 1.9.0.*."
Further Information: Ubuntu 8.04.1; Release: 8.04
apt-cache policy firefox says:
firefox:
  Installiert:3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Mögliche Pakete:3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

[Cooper (cooper-chen)]

you are missing some configuration file at /etc/gre.d

[MartinM (martin-manert)]

Thanks for your answer.

Please tell me more about this. What should the configuration file be?

less -l /etc/grep.d says:
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 73 2008-07-13 01:15 1.9.0.1.system.conf.dpkg-new
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 69 2008-04-15 17:38 1.9b5.system.conf
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65 2008-05-29 12:12 1.9.system.conf
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35 2007-04-03 17:42 firefox.conf
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142 2008-03-27 01:11 libxul0d.conf
All of them where created automaticaly.

[MartinM (martin-manert)]

After another update Firefox works again!

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

MartinM wrote:
> After another update Firefox works again!
>
>
Thanks for letting us know its fixed

 status fixreleased

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[MartinM (martin-manert)]

Thank you for fixing it.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:10:35PM -0000, MartinM wrote:
> Thank you for fixing it.
>

This was just a time when xulrunner wasnt synched to your
mirror. shouldnt happen for hardy-updates. users. thanks for testing
anyway.

 - Alexander

[Kari Aliranta (kpaliran)]

This DID happen to a hardy-security user, with hardy-updates or hardy-proposed NOT enabled, update notifier NOT enabled, and "install security updates unattended" enabled.

Basically: firefox just suddenly stopped working without any apparent reason. Works now, but had to launch update manager manually to make it work.

Kari

[Robert Jaemmrich (mail-robert-jaemmrich)]

$ firefox
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.1 and 1.9.0.*.

# apt-cache policy firefox-3.0
firefox-3.0:
  Installed: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

# uname -a
Linux speedy 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:40:41 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid

[Robert Jaemmrich (mail-robert-jaemmrich)]

$ xulrunner --register-global

fixes this bug for me as suggested by Jian Lee in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/248493/comments/2

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this isnt a bug. this happens when you manually remove stuff from /etc/gre.d ... which you shouldnt.

[Jian Lee (lijian-gnu)]

sorry,this isnt a bug . it's just a question.

[Robert Jaemmrich (mail-robert-jaemmrich)]

AFAIR this problem appeared after a regular update. I never messed around with the files in /etc/gre.d.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

well. if you didnt manually touch those files (or maybe some 3rd party application did), your .conf file should always be there.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

nb: i witnessed this error after a computer crashed during the installation of updates. running apt-get once (as root) fixed things...

[Jian Lee (lijian-gnu)]

The problem have solved，Thanks!
Just modified the gre.conf

2009/5/16 Michael Nagel <email address hidden>

> nb: i witnessed this error after a computer crashed during the
> installation of updates. running apt-get once (as root) fixed things...
>
> --
> Firefox does not start after update
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248362
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “firefox” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox
>
> After updating my KUbuntu (hardy) on 2008-07-13, Firefox won't start
> reporting "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.1 and
> 1.9.0.*."
> Further Information: Ubuntu 8.04.1; Release: 8.04
> apt-cache policy firefox says:
> firefox:
> Installiert:3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
> Mögliche Pakete:3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
> Versions-Tabelle:
> *** 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
> 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
> 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
> 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
> 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
>

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