Man, Firefox suddenly stopped working in FC5

[b00st]

Once the repos were set loose, I start installing the usual apps that I had for FC4. Now firefox doesn't load up. It says it's starting up, but then exit without any errors whatsoever. I'm kinda like wtf, reinstalled it about 4 times now and no go. Thunderbird loads up fine so I'm confuzled as to what the hell went wrong with it.

[Shakes]

Can u give us a clue? What exactly did u install between when it was working and when it was not?

[jim]

run it from the terminal see if there is any output

[b00st]

I figured out the problem, installing this broke firefox for me:

compat-libstdc++-33

The reason I installed that via yum was because I was following stanton-finley's setup guide. It's mentioned in the adobe reader section, I installed it and forgot to install adobe reader . I removed the above mentioned package and all is well again. Lesson learned, hehehe.

[daihard]

Originally Posted by b00st

I figured out the problem, installing this broke firefox for me:

compat-libstdc++-33

The reason I installed that via yum was because I was following stanton-finley's setup guide. It's mentioned in the adobe reader section, I installed it and forgot to install adobe reader . I removed the above mentioned package and all is well again. Lesson learned, hehehe.

That's a little odd. I have compat-libstdc++-33 on my FC5 box as well, and Firefox works fine.

[CBBaron]

I have the same problem since I install FC5. When I run firefox from a command line it exits immediately with no output (although I can run firefox -v and get the version "1.5.0.1").
I tried removing compat-libstdc++-33 with no change.
Any other ideas???
Craig

[b00st]

Well, when i installed adobe read and it had been installed because of the dependencies and didn't find any problems afterwards. Dunno why it would do that in the first place though.

[DustyJ]

Hi,
I upgrded 3 computers from FC4 to FC5. Firefox works fine on 2 of them but on the third machine the status bar says "Starting web browser" for a while, then nothing else happens.
I then used yum to remove and install Firefox, but it still doesn't work, so I'm using Epiphany on this machine.
John.

[Zigzagcom]

I just installed acroread per Stantons directions, including compat-libstdc++-33. No problems here.

[DustyJ]

Hi,
I don't think my particular Firefox problem has anything to do with Adobe Reader. It just happened when upgrading from FC4 to FC5. I've discovered I can start Firefox if I log in as root or if I do su -c in a terminal.
The other browsers like Epiphany work for a user or root.
John.

[giulix]

I think the problem here is that FC4 applications and the download-from-mozilla-site version of Firefox were compiled with libstdc++.so.5. FC5 uses libstdc++.so.6. With a default install of FC5 you get the latter version of the standard C++ library, but not the former, which you have to download and install manually (any FC4 version for your architecture will do). A situation like this will allow you to run both kinds of applications:

/home/giulix%ll /usr/lib/libstdc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   18 Mar 20 14:20 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.5
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 726K Apr 13  2004 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   18 Mar 20 14:31 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 927K Mar 10 04:34 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8

Anyway, if you try to install version 5 with version 6 already installed, rpm may complain. In this case, just force the installation (rpm -i --force).
hth...

[DustyJ]

Thanks a lot for the info.
John.

[DustyJ]

Hi,
Sorry for the delay in following this up. (I've been using Epiphany for work, so I haven't tried Firefox.)
I've got the following in /usr/lib/

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          27 Mar 24 02:21 libstdc++-20060203.so.7 -> ibstdc++-20060203.so.7.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root   root     1027860 Mar 10 06:09 libstdc++-20060203.so.7.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root   root      258288 Feb 13 07:49 libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root   root      259468 Feb 13 07:49 libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          30 Mar 29 23:46 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 -> libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          31 Mar 29 23:46 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 -> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          18 Mar 29 23:46 libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.7
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root   root      733776 Feb 11 15:20 libstdc++.so.5.0.7
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root          18 Mar 23 22:58 libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.8
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root   root      949160 Mar 10 03:34 libstdc++.so.6.0.8

Should this be enough to run Firefox as a user? It runs OK as root.
Thanks
John

[giulix]

Shouldn't make any difference whether you run it as root or else...

[Lluisanunez]

If Firefox runs OK as root, have you tried deleting (or moving) your user profile folders in ./mozilla/firefox/...whatever.default ?