Firefox fails to start - Cutting Log

[lasombra]

Since some days I can't start more my firefox. While starting by Applications>Internet>Firefox nothing happens. Starting over the commandline I receive the follwoing message, which I think has nothing in common with firefox:
> Cutting log (size: 101270, max: 100000)

While starting in safe mode nothing happens and returns without message to the command line.

I habe the following packages installed:
ii firefox-3.0 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
ii firefox-3.0-dom-inspector 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 dummy upgrade package for firefox-3.0-dom-in
ii firefox-3.0-gnome-support 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 Support for Gnome in Mozilla Firefox
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.0~1.9b4-0ubuntu1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-0d 3.12.0~1.9b4-0ubuntu1 Transition package for Network Security Serv
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.0~1.9b4-0ubuntu1 Network Security Service libraries
ii xulrunner-1.9 1.9~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 XUL + XPCOM application runner
ii xulrunner-1.9-dom-inspector 1.9~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 tool for inspecting the DOM of pages in Mozi
ii xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support 1.9~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 Support for Gnome in xulrunner-1.9 applicati

> lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04

> apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ar.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I thought the problem could be with a new extension installed, thus I created a new profile withe the profile-manager. In this case I get a messagebox "Close Firefox - Firefox is already running, but is not responding [...]". There is any process running for firefox not mozilla ('ps ax' and 'ps -A') When I start firefox as root (sudo su, firefox) I get the same error.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Can you run firefox -debug from the command line and see if there's any output?

[lasombra (lasombra)]

Nothing, I got the same error.

> firefox -debug
Cutting log (size: 100065, max: 100000)a

[lasombra (lasombra)]

Well I tried to remove firefox (apt-get purge firefox) and reinstall firefox. This doesn't work. I found out, that /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b4/components/libbrowserdirprovider.so is a directory and not a file. The directory itself cannot be deleted, I think there is a filesystem problem. So I renamed firefox-3.0b4 to firefox-bak and tried again removing and installing firefox. No success. I get the error error mentioned above: "Close Firefox - Firefox is already running, but is not responding [...]", while there is no running process.

So I denistalled firefox and all related packages (e.g. gnash-plugin)... and deleted all directorys and files in /usr/lib cause there were still somes... After I installed only the package firefox and now is working. I will go on now by installing the plugins provided in the repositories and after I will restore my profile.

[lasombra (lasombra)]

My firefox is working again