Firefox doesn't start anymore

[H. van Niekerk]

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.

[Torsten.]

Maybe you removed some dependencies?

Any messages?

Did you try this:

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

[H. van Niekerk]

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.

[Torsten.]

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

[H. van Niekerk]

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

[Dennis Handly]

>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.

[H. van Niekerk]

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

[Dennis Handly]

>which one(s) to use?

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

[H. van Niekerk]

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)

[H. van Niekerk]

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.

[Steven Schweda]

> 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, ...?

[H. van Niekerk]

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.

[Jitesh purohit_1]

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

Jitesh

[H. van Niekerk]

I only have 1 system running HP-UX.

[Pete Randall]

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

[H. van Niekerk]

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

[TTr]

> 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!

[H. van Niekerk]

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.

[Pete Randall]

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

[H. van Niekerk]

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.

[TTr]

> It is a C3700 PA-RISC workstation running CDE
On a local graphics console right?

Log out from CDE and login again with a new CDE session. Post the output of "echo $DISPLAY". The DISPLAY variable should already be setup and should not have to set it again. If it is not, then something is wrong in your profile or the CDE environment.
> and used tusc with the earlier suggested
> tusc -fp -ea -o tusc.out firefox ...
What is in the tusc.out file?

[H. van Niekerk]

After re-login, "echo $DISPLAY" is "Somerset:0.0". I attached the output from tusc.out.

[Torsten.]

Is "Somerset" your **exact** hostname?

[H. van Niekerk]

"hostname" gives Somerset as output.

[Steven Schweda]

> After re-login, "echo $DISPLAY" is
> "Somerset:0.0".

A simple Copy+Paste of the actual command and
its actual output would be more credible.

Who sets it to that? Something in your shell
start-up stuff?

Does any other X program run this way? Say,
xclock or dtterm? (That is, is this problem
limited to Firefox, or does everything fail
when you run it from a command line?)