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richard
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2024 4:22 am    Post subject: Problems with Firefox Reply with quote
I need a bit of advice. My Firefox browser has all of a sudden stopped running. When I try and start it I get a lovely bouncing Firefox icon and then zilch. The same thing has also happened to Thunderbird as well. Any suggestions Question
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2024 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah thats happened to me before. You should be able to go to the command line and type:

ps aux

and then it will list processes running. If you see any firefox, mozilla, thunderbird anything use this command to kill it:

killall -9 somthing

If that doesnt work, try restarting X
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2024 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'll give it a try tonight when I get hopme from work.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2024 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Um, no idea.

Try running it from the command line.

Open up a Konsole (if you're in KDE) and type in "mozilla-firefox" at the prompt. If it's not there, you have a problem. Very Happy

If it's not in your PATH (it should be), type "find / |grep mozilla-firefox" and then if one shows up (mine for example is at /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox)

Tell us what you get.



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richard
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2024 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
mr_ed wrote:
Um, no idea.

Try running it from the command line.

Open up a Konsole (if you're in KDE) and type in "mozilla-firefox" at the prompt. If it's not there, you have a problem. Very Happy

If it's not in your PATH (it should be), type "find / |grep mozilla-firefox" and then if one shows up (mine for example is at /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox)

Tell us what you get.


Code:
[richard@Belgarion arklinux]$ mozilla-firefox
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-0.8/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXft2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2024 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
richard wrote:
mr_ed wrote:
Um, no idea.

Try running it from the command line.

Open up a Konsole (if you're in KDE) and type in "mozilla-firefox" at the prompt. If it's not there, you have a problem. Very Happy

If it's not in your PATH (it should be), type "find / |grep mozilla-firefox" and then if one shows up (mine for example is at /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox)

Tell us what you get.


Code:
[richard@Belgarion arklinux]$ mozilla-firefox
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-0.8/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXft2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Try to 'find' it:

[root@Belgarion arklinux] find / -name libXft2.so.2

Then copy it to '/usr/lib/'.

Might work. ; )




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richard
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2024 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
25ft wrote:
Try to 'find' it:

[root@Belgarion arklinux] find / -name libXft2.so.2

Then move it to '/usr/lib/'.

Might work. ; )


It didn't find anything.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2024 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
libXft2.so.2 Isn't that a XFree86 4.4 library?



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2024 4:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Germ wrote:
libXft2.so.2 Isn't that a XFree86 4.4 library?


Yes. I did a bit of digging and confirmed this so I reinstalled XFree86 lib and Firefox is now working. It looks like Ark lost the libXft2.so.2 file during an upgrade. Thunderbird is also working aswell now. Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2024 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sweet. Very Happy



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2024 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rock on! 8 )
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2024 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
See I am learning something Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2024 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good stuff! Cool



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