Firefox in Jaunty made messy upgrade to Karmic

[Duncan Lithgow]

Binary package hint: firefox

I wanted to report a bug in Firefox (3.5.4) but I can't vis 'Help > Report a Problem'. It goes through the motion but never opens a new tab for me to use. When I start firefox from the cli I get the following output:

(firefox:2258): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead [repeated more than I have space for in the cli]
(firefox:2258): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead
Warning: The options -p/-P are deprecated, please do not use them. See /usr/bin/ubuntu-bug --help
Error showing url: Failed to execute child process "/home/duncan/bin/firefox/firefox" (No such file or directory)
Error showing url: Failed to execute child process "/home/duncan/bin/firefox/firefox" (No such file or directory)

Probably the core problem here is that I installed Firefox 3.5 in Jaunty manually and the upgrade to karmic has messed things up. The reason there is an error with the URL is that there is no longer a /home/duncan/bin on my system, although that's where I had installed 3.5 under Jaunty. I deleted that bin directory after the upgrade to Karmic as I assumed that I had a clean new copy of Firefox.

So, Ubuntu needs to find a cleaner way to upgrade when an application has been manually installed somewhere non-standard.

If someone can tell me where to find the files generated by apport before they are overwritten I will happily upload them.

[Camille Appert (bibinou)]

> Ubuntu needs to find a cleaner way to upgrade when an application has been manually installed somewhere non-standard.

There was a firefox-3.5 package in Jaunty as there is a firefox-3.6 one in Karmic to address this very problem.

What is the output of
"which firefox"
 and
"ls -l firefox"
?

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

duncan@duncan-laptop:~$ which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox

duncan@duncan-laptop:/usr/bin$ ls -l firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2009-11-05 22:02 firefox -> firefox-3.5

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

@Camille: Please explain why this is invalid.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Moving to Firefox 3.5 for triage

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This is invalid because Firefox installed properly during the upgrade. You might need to get rid of any manual shortcuts you made to the Mozilla version of Firefox you installed. Your system is set up to use the correct copy of Firefox. If you need more help, I suggest posting to the answers section. Please report any issues you have with the system version of Firefox.

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

@Micah: But the upgrade did not make a working shortcut in the main menu for me. If it had there wouldn't be any problem to report. I know that Firefox is installed and working, because I can start it from the cli, but there is no menu entry.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Did you have a manual shortcut in your home directory for firefox? That might have caused the non-working shortcut in the menu.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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