firefox: fails to start with "not responding" dialog

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #347825 http://bugs.debian.org/347825

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:16:38 +0000
From: John Kozak <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: firefox: fails to start with "not responding" dialog

Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg-4
Severity: grave

firefox fails to start, issuing a dialog box stgaing it is already
running, but not responding. "ps ax|grep fire" shows nothing running.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-6 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System printing extension
ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii psmisc 21.8-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime

firefox recommends no packages.

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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:39:41 -0500
From: Eric Dorland <email address hidden>
To: John Kozak <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#347825: firefox: fails to start with "not responding" dialog

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severity 347825 important
thanks

* John Kozak (<email address hidden>) wrote:
> Package: firefox
> Version: 1.5.dfsg-4
> Severity: grave
>=20
> firefox fails to start, issuing a dialog box stgaing it is already
> running, but not responding. "ps ax|grep fire" shows nothing running.

Can you try moving your .mozilla and/or .firefox dirs out of the way?=20

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[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

I got this on my dapper ppc.

In fact I can only run one instance of firefox. If I run 2 process at the same time, the 1st one work as expected but the 2nd waits until the 1st is closed. The "not responding" dialog comes from the 2nd process.

This is _really_ annoying.

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

The problem seems to be solved on my dapper

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

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Laurent Bigonville writes ("[Bug 28436] firefox: fails to start with "not responding" dialog"):
> The problem seems to be solved on my dapper

Excellent. Thanks for letting me know.

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[Xeno Campanoli (xeno)]

I am getting this on a new install on feisty. On my laptop, where I played all around with apt-get back and forth to get feisty up, it has only occurred so far this morning, and not at all on my older desktop at my house which I installed with the GUI upgrade methods. But on my newest machine, which I did a complete reinstall on last night and this morning from CD, it is doing it a lot.

I believe the browser came up correctly once. I'm not sure how I killed it to make it do this.

The complete popup is:

"Close Firefox" (on the top bar)
then a question mark balloon icon and the following text:

Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

The only other item is an OK button.

Unlike the first statement above, I first saw an entry in ps auxw that ended in "firefox-bin", but upon killing it, I tried again to bring up FF and got the same diagnostic popup.

I then tried to bring up the epiphany web browser and it doesn't respond at all.

I then try completely restarting the machine, and logging in again, but Firefox still fails in the same way.

[Xeno Campanoli (xeno)]

I moved .mozilla to moved.mozilla as per a suggestion earlier in the bug, and then Firefox came up fine. I suspect what I've done is destroyed upgraded aspects in .mozilla when I restored my home directory from a backup I made before doing the clean-slate feisty install, therefore this is probably not a problem. I'll post again if I see it come back further.

[Xeno Campanoli (xeno)]

So I'm still seeing the thing with Epiphany, and I'll look for or start another bug on that. The diagnostic on my laptop I relized I was mistaken about, and it differed. This should still be closed then.

[Xeno Campanoli (xeno)]

My statement about epiphay above is a mistake. Meanwhile, I am not seeing the behavior anymore. Is anyone? I have both Feisty and Gutsy installs right now, and I haven't seen it.

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