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xaegis
May 17th, 2009, 07:56 PM
This is the error I'm getting. I am currently unable to surf the net using firefox! Seems like i'm caught in a loop where xulrunner needs firefox and firefox needs xulrunner.

Any suggestions?








user@home:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for user:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up xulrunner-1.9 (1.9.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xulrunner-1.9.postinst: 5: /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9: not found
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-3.0:
firefox-3.0 depends on xulrunner-1.9 (>= 1.9.0.1); however:
Package xulrunner-1.9 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-3.0 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-3.0-branding:
firefox-3.0-branding depends on firefox-3.0 (= 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1); however:
Package firefox-3.0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-3.0-branding (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox:
firefox depends on firefox-3.0; however:
Package firefox-3.0 is not configured yet.
firefox depends on firefox-3.0-branding; however:
Package firefox-3.0-branding is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support:
xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support depends on xulrunner-1.9 (= 1.9.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1); however:
Package xulrunner-1.9 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-3.0-gnome-support:
firefox-3.0-gnome-support depends on firefox-3.0 (= 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1); however:
Package firefox-3.0 is not configured yet.
firefox-3.0-gnome-support depends on xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support (>= 1.9~b4~); however:
Package xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-3.0-gnome-support (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-gnome-support:
firefox-gnome-support depends on firefox-3.0-gnome-support; however:
Package firefox-3.0-gnome-support is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-gnome-support (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
xulrunner-1.9
firefox-3.0
firefox-3.0-branding
firefox
xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support
firefox-3.0-gnome-support
firefox-gnome-support
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
user@home:~$

xaegis
May 17th, 2009, 08:36 PM
ok I used the terminal command:



sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends xulrunner-1.9


to uninstall xulrunner. Then I removed "xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support" using synaptic.

Removed Firefox using synaptic and then reinstalled everything starting with the xulrunner files using synaptic.

Everything works perfectly now.