Trouble with FireFox

[nadimRafehi]

All of a sudden my Firefox stopped working. It'll open and after a few seconds automatically close.

I ran Firefox from the terminal and here is what I came up with:

$ ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libartsc.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622920: NP_GetMIMEDescription
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622920: NP_GetMIMEDescription return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622920: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622920: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622920: NP_GetValue return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622920: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622920: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x622920: NP_GetValue return
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: pixman_format_supported_destination

Any ideas?

[nadimRafehi]

Anyone?

[jimv]

hmmm...you could try reinstalling. This command will do that and leave your profile intact:


sudo apt-get remove --purge firefox-3.0
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0

[nadimRafehi]

Nope, no changes. I think it may have something to do with libcairo as can be seen in the error message:

/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: pixman_format_supported_destination

[tamoneya]

what is the output of:

ls -l ~/.mozilla/firefox

[nadimRafehi]

That gives me:

total 8
drwx------ 7 nadim nadim 4096 2008-08-03 17:10 3me4i383.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 nadim nadim 94 2008-07-23 09:00 profiles.ini

[tamoneya]

That gives me:

everything looks fine there. Try this:

sudo apt-get install libcairo2

[nadimRafehi]

Hmm, it seems to be working a bit better now. It closes when I visit certain pages though. For example, if I try to log into gmail it'll close once the loading bar has filled.

[nadimRafehi]

everything looks fine there. Try this:

sudo apt-get install libcairo2

No, that's already installed.

Maybe Cairo-Dock may have something to do with it. I couldn't get it to work with Glitz using the SVN version (French error messages are painful) so I ended up using the --remove command on the SVN file. Could that have something to do with it?

[nadimRafehi]

Any ideas on where I can go from here?