Bug#638903: iceweasel refuses to start after upgrade

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Tue Aug 23 04:52:58 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:36:44PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 23:13 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:31:58PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > > Package: iceweasel
> > > > Version: 6.0-2
> > > > Severity: serious
> > > > 
> > > > iceweasel refuses to start after upgrade to 6.0. This is the second
> > > > computer having the same problem. Is this known? On the other computer I
> > > > had to create a new account, and restore by coping the bookmark file:
> > > > bookmarks-2011-08-22.json and the settings file:sessionstore.js
> > > > manually.
> > > 
> > > What exactly do you mean with "refuses to start"?
> > 
> > Does it crash?
> 
> It just hangs!
> 
> > Does it display something and then abort? 
> 
> Starting with  iceweasel -safe-mode -preferences gives the preferences
> menu, then a freeze.
> 
> iceweasel -safe-mode -jsconsole opens the Error console and then hangs
> (no output)
> 
> > Is there
> > something displayed on the console/in .xsession-errors?
> 
> NO!
> 
> > What does strace
> > -f iceweasel say?
> 
> See http://paste.debian.net/127055/ for the last 30k. The whole file is
> 1.3GB.
> 
> > Was iceweasel running during the upgrade?
> 
> Yes it was.

Does "MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS=1 iceweasel" do any better?

Mike





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