After update, firefox "bus error"

[rustyslacker]

After running the latest batch of automatic updates (which included some firefox ones), Firefox fails to open at all.

It was odd. I had the update running behind my browser, and when it said "please restart firefox" I had just clicked on something so it didn't load, and stopped firefox with an error. I closed it, and then the computer locked up and I rebooted it.

So since that, Firefox refuses to open at all. I reinstalled it from Synaptic and apt-get, twice. I installed Epiphany and that doesn't start either. Running from terminal results in "bus error".

Help D:

[RT236]

After running the latest batch of automatic updates (which included some firefox ones), Firefox fails to open at all.

It was odd. I had the update running behind my browser, and when it said "please restart firefox" I had just clicked on something so it didn't load, and stopped firefox with an error. I closed it, and then the computer locked up and I rebooted it.

So since that, Firefox refuses to open at all. I reinstalled it from Synaptic and apt-get, twice. I installed Epiphany and that doesn't start either. Running from terminal results in "bus error".

Help D:

Same thing just happen here a few minutes ago. I also just reloaded Firefox now from Synaptic and have similar errors as you. I'm sending this from Wine running the Windows version of Firefox. This is a very recent Firefox update for the Linux release, this evening it seems, as I checked Ubuntu updates earlier today and there were none for the Firefox Linux release. I've been using Firefox Linux practically since the first release and I've never had this happen...

[kostkon]

Maybe the restart of Firefox didn't go well and its process is still running. Try giving this command in a terminal

pkill firefox
and then try to run Firefox again.

Hope that helps.

[RT236]

Maybe the restart of Firefox didn't go well and its process is still running. Try giving this command in a terminal

pkill firefox
and then try to run Firefox again.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, I should have thought of this, too long at PC today, getting flaky. The prior release was still running, killed it... rebooted too because of a lot of changes I did today with Ubuntu 9.04 (really nice release). Then reloaded latest Firefox 3.0.10 from Synaptic (I had deleted it) and Firefox plus all extensions, bookmarks, etc. all came back.

[coolnezz]

wracked my brains for a few hours on this problem. it happened after hard booting my computer, it was probably a damaged file system.
this solved it for me:

removing of xulrunner, nspluginwrapper and firefox and
re-installing fixed the problem.