immoral giant Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Firefox has stopped working all of a sudden, have tried rebooting to no success. It stopped loading so i rebooted, after reboot i tried running it to which it came up with the quality feedback screen. I went through that and tried to load firefox again. But it just says its loading in the toolbar and then disappears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immoral giant Posted June 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Just tried installing again but won't install. I did a lot of updates, in fact i think i did them all. So i take it that one of these are the problem or many of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Have you had any system crashes at all? Does it give any error messages? It may be worthwhile reinstalling it, as it only takes a minute, and see if that resolves the issue. If you know where it's currently located, remove the directory, in case there is some sort of file corruption, and then reinstall to the same location (so any existing desktop icons you've set up, are working) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Looks like I posted at the same time. The updates you've done shouldn't have caused a problem to Firefox as such. I've managed to update my 10.1 OE without it affecting Firefox. If you reinstalled over the top, remove the directory, so that all the files are created again from scratch. As mentioned above, reinstall to the same location, just make sure no files for Firefox exist first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immoral giant Posted June 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 I installed in the home directory, deleted it and the installer wont run. I downloaded the installer again still no luck. When i launch the installer, i press Forward, then the installer just closes with no warning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monolith Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Does it give any errors if you run the installer from konsole? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immoral giant Posted June 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Not 100% how i would do that without looking at it as i'm in windows at the moment, so i'll have a go later on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 when you run mandrake/mandriva, open a console/terminal (little black monitor icon) and if you have firefox installed, type "mozilla-firefox". if there are some errors displayed in the terminal, please post them in here. for installing firefox from a terminal (in case it ain't installed), once you have set up all mirrors using easyurpmi, type "su" to become root, then type "urpmi mozilla-firefox". will it give you any errors? if yes, please post the content, so we can take a deeper look at your problems. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immoral giant Posted June 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 (edited) Works by doing it through konsole. Installs and runs fine. But still doesnt install through kde by using installer. It's a different version too. Edited June 6, 2005 by immoral giant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 (edited) :huh: which versions do you get with which installer? Edited June 6, 2005 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immoral giant Posted June 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 With urpmi i get v1.0 preview. Whereas the latest version is 1.04. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 (edited) this sounds weird. the preview is the correct one for mandriva. but it should not crash at all.. and why does the kpackager not recognize the same packages?... i will ask some linux-os-architects on this. they are dealing with kde 3.4 and packaging right now and might know an answer. Edited June 6, 2005 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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