Firefox-bin not answering

[Jean-Claude Le Douaron]

After having updated From Firefox 3.5 to 3.6 in Lucid Firefox doesn't start. Answer "Firefox-bin not answering"

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Nomax (nomax)]

Thank you for reporting the issue.

We need more info to troubleshoot the issue.
- Please could you tell us which version of Ubuntu 10.04 you are using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
You can find out by typing "uname -m" in a terminal. If it returns "x86_64", then you're using 64-bit version.

- When launching firefox from the terminal, does it leave any message upon exit?

Can you please check if any message is added to ~/.xsession-errors while Firefox is running?

Thank you.

[Jean-Claude Le Douaron (jcledoua)]

version: i686
Nothing happens if I try to run Firefox from the terminal and the only error message I get is when I try to shut down my netbook: a window opens telling that "Firefox-bin svarar inte" = doesn't answer. I have the Swedish version of Ubuntu.
Thanks

Jean-Claude Le Douaron

[Jean-Claude Le Douaron (jcledoua)]

But Seamonkey and Google chrome work OK...

Jean-Claude Le Douaron

[Nomax (nomax)]

Could it be a bad extension problem?

Please try running firefox with this command: "firefox -safe-mode"
(it disables extensions and themes)

[Nomax (nomax)]

Another thing to try is to rename your profile to check if the problem comes from something in the profile:
- move profile: mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.bak
- start firefox.
- if it changes nothing:
   - erase newly created dir: rm -rf .mozilla
   - restore profile: mv ~/.mozilla.bak ~/.mozilla

[Anders Berggren (anders-fringo)]

A couple of people seems to have had this problem and deleting secmod.db in ~/.mozilla/firefox/<PROFILE> seems to solve it.

[Jean-Claude Le Douaron (jcledoua)]

By moving the profile according to Nomax' instruction it worked. The previous one on starting in safe mode didn't...

[Jean-Claude Le Douaron (jcledoua)]

Thanks

[Jean-Claude Le Douaron (jcledoua)]

It worked until I close Firefox and when restarting it the same problem came up again. But deleting secmod.db did the trick.

Thanks

[Jean-Claude Le Douaron (jcledoua)]

Deleting secmod.db did the trick until i had surfed a wihle closed firefox and shut down the netbook. But with a new start the secmod.db file was there again and I just wonder if I have to deleted it every time before I want to use Firefox...
Sorry :-((((

[Jean-Claude Le Douaron (jcledoua)]

I created a second profile to check if this would help. And in fact Firefox starts but I get a window with the message:
Could not initialize the application's security component. The most likely cause is problems with files in your application's profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is not full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the application and fix the problem. If you continue to use this session, you might see incorrect application behaviour when accessing security features.

My hard disk is not ful...

[Jean-Claude Le Douaron (jcledoua)]

Well as I understand it there was a conflct with a bank ID program : Nexus. After uninstalling and reinstalling this bank ID programme the problem was solved. I found this solution on the Swedish Ubuntu Web Site:
http://www.ubuntu-se.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=200&t=49496&start=20

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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