topic Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore in Operating System - HP-UX

Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:25:36 GMT

Hi,

(PA-RISC/UX-11.11i) After installing Gimp, I noticed Firefox doesn't start anymore. Removed Gimp and all dependencies, but still nothing. Removed and reinstalled Firefox, again nothing. No error message either.

Can someone help me out pls?

Thanks.

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

Torsten. — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:31:01 GMT

Maybe you removed some dependencies?

Any messages?

Did you try this:

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/try.do?productNumber=HPUXFIREFOX

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:50:16 GMT

I don't get any messages at all. No core dumps. I've redownloaded Firefox using another computer, copied it to the PA-RISC, removed and reinstalled it. No go.

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

Torsten. — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:11:38 GMT

Can you see it is "ps" output? Maybe it runs on another DISPLAY? ... Just an idea ...

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:14:59 GMT

The output of "ps -ef | grep -i firefox" shows no Firefox at all. Other ideas?

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

Dennis Handly — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:30:53 GMT

>Removed Gimp and all dependencies, but still nothing. Removed and reinstalled Firefox, again nothing.

Hmm, I would have thought these two would fix it. Or at least there should be an error message.

Do you have a system where it still works?
You could try using tusc to see where they diverge or if any errors before it exits.

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:54:04 GMT

Thanks for the tusc hint, but seeing the many options that can be given: do you have a suggestion which one(s) to use?

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

Dennis Handly — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:09:14 GMT

>which one(s) to use?

Use these to start:
tusc -fp -ea -o tusc.out firefox ...

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:21:09 GMT

OK, now I have a problem. It seems I don't have tusc installed, and I don't have a supplemental CD. I found the options on the internet. Can I get tusc from the internet? (where)

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:18:41 GMT

ok, installed tusc. Now I get a message:

#(firefox-bin:3909): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

This is odd, because previously I didn't need to set a display.

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

Steven Schweda — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:06:20 GMT

> This is odd, because previously I didn't
> need to set a display.

Knowing nothing, I'd say that what would
_really_ be odd would be if you could get
Firefox (or any other graphical application)
to work if you did _not_ have DISPLAY set
properly.

What seems more likely to me would be that
your DISPLAY was being set automatically
(somehow) before, but isn't now.

echo $DISPLAY

What are you sitting at, an HP-UX
workstation, some PC running some X server,
a vt220, ...? If you're not sitting at an
HP-UX workstation, then how is what you are
sitting at connected to the HP-UX system,
Telnet, SSH, serial line, ...?

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:20:41 GMT

It is a C3700 PA-RISC workstation running CDE. To run firefox, I start a terminal en run a simple script (./startfirefox that just contains "/opt/firefox/firefox &" without quotes) that hasn't changed since I installed firefox the first time.

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

Jitesh purohit_1 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:29:41 GMT

Does the same version of firefox works on any other system running hpux 11.11

Jitesh

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:11:34 GMT

I only have 1 system running HP-UX.

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

Pete Randall — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:15:33 GMT

Well, we can worry forever about how DISPLAY was being magically set before - or, we can just go ahead and fix this problem:

echo $DISPLAY

(should return nothing)

export DISPLAY=(ipaddress):0.0
./startfirefox

Pete

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:42:11 GMT

With DISPLAY set like that, I still get the same Gtk error.

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

TTr — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:50:08 GMT

> With DISPLAY set like that...

Like what? Did you type what patrick wrote verbatib or did you put the ipaddress of your workstation in place of (ipaddress)? You don't post back much information about what people are asking you!

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:55:44 GMT

First, I used the IP address:

$set DISPLAY=10.0.0.17:0.0

Then I used my little ./startfirefox script, with no result. Next, I su-ed to root, again "set DISPLAY=10.0.0.17:0.0", and used tusc with the earlier suggested options to start firefox. This gave the mentioned Gtk WARNING.

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

Pete Randall — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:00:12 GMT

Why the "set DISPLAY" syntax? What shell are you running?

You also seem to have set the DISPLAY for your root session rather than your regular user session (if I'm reading your comments correctly).

Pete

Re: Firefox doesn't start anymore

H. van Niekerk — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:06:03 GMT

Sorry, "set DISPLAY" is a typo. It is "export DISPLAY". I'm running ksh.
Yes, I exported DISPLAY for both. First for the normal user, but that didn't give any response. So, in order the get output from tusc, I su-ed to root, did it again and got the Gtk WARNING.