gregh7470
August 5th, 2009, 09:00 PM
Earlier this morning I received an update notification and upon launching the update manager there was a couple of updates for firefox:
firefox-3.0 and firefox-3.0-branding
I didn't really think anyhting about it, approved the updates and now firefox will not launch. I tried launching it from a terminal and got an error message dealing with the xul library...I can't really remember what the error was, and so trying to fix the error myself (big mistake) I used synaptic to install xulrunner-1.9.1...which did not help and infact made matters worse. I tried to purge the xul library and get this:
gregh7470@computer007:~$ sudo apt-get purge xulrunner-1.9.1
[sudo] password for gregh7470:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xulrunner-1.9.1*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 24.1MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 132176 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xulrunner-1.9.1 ...
update-alternatives: error or eof reading /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/xulrunner for update_mode ()
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9.1 (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
xulrunner-1.9.1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
and when I try and launch firefox from the terminal I get this:
gregh7470@computer007:~$ firefox
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.1 and 1.9.0.*.
gregh7470@computer007:~$ I'm stuck...I want firefox back and working and the extra library that's stuck needs to come out as well. I'm using Galeon 2.0.6 right now and it seems to be working ok.
I am using a standard install of ubuntu. I have not enabled any extra repositories or installed any outside packages. I just installed it and updated it and added some extra packages that were available in the repositories like some plugins for pidgin, like liferea, vlc...nothing fancy so to speak....
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
firefox-3.0 and firefox-3.0-branding
I didn't really think anyhting about it, approved the updates and now firefox will not launch. I tried launching it from a terminal and got an error message dealing with the xul library...I can't really remember what the error was, and so trying to fix the error myself (big mistake) I used synaptic to install xulrunner-1.9.1...which did not help and infact made matters worse. I tried to purge the xul library and get this:
gregh7470@computer007:~$ sudo apt-get purge xulrunner-1.9.1
[sudo] password for gregh7470:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xulrunner-1.9.1*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 24.1MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 132176 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xulrunner-1.9.1 ...
update-alternatives: error or eof reading /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/xulrunner for update_mode ()
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9.1 (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
xulrunner-1.9.1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
and when I try and launch firefox from the terminal I get this:
gregh7470@computer007:~$ firefox
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.1 and 1.9.0.*.
gregh7470@computer007:~$ I'm stuck...I want firefox back and working and the extra library that's stuck needs to come out as well. I'm using Galeon 2.0.6 right now and it seems to be working ok.
I am using a standard install of ubuntu. I have not enabled any extra repositories or installed any outside packages. I just installed it and updated it and added some extra packages that were available in the repositories like some plugins for pidgin, like liferea, vlc...nothing fancy so to speak....
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks