Firefox is started but does not show itself

Bug #257716 reported by ledenjes
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I have started Firefox 11 times (!) but still it does not show itself (this I can see in the list of running programmes). Somehow the gui refuses to work.

I believe I found the reason why this is happening and the method to manually resolve the problem:

Somehow, the process "gdm" is starting TWICE at boot. Once I killed one of both processes, Ubuntu automatically logged me out and forced me into the non-gui environment (other than gnome-terminal). I could login but not return to the gui environment of Ubuntu. When I tried "gdm", Ubuntu told me "gdm" was already started and could therefore not be started.

So then, I killed the remaining "gdm" process and typed "gdm" to get back to the gui mode. This time it worked. I got back into the gui environment. Furthermore, all programmes which were non-responsive before, now were responding properly, again.

ledenjes (jpa-rijks)
description: updated
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Gabriel Ruiz (anakron) wrote :

It happens to me. Please re-install it and erase beta versions.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

please check the ubuntuforums to get support.

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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