9.10 broken upgrade, xulrunner?

[thundercatHO]

I have been running Ubuntu 9.10 for some time, to keep my system current I recently did:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

during the upgrade it failed to complete, NOW firefox will not work. nor can I get past the installation of xulrunner.

I did a apt-get clean, apt-get update and tried to complete the upgrade only to be back where I started.

here is the text of the failed upgrade:

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root@raptor:/home/jeff# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
9 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up xulrunner-1.9.1 (1.9.1.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xulrunner-1.9.1.postinst: 5: /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9.1: not found
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9.1 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-3.5:
firefox-3.5 depends on xulrunner-1.9.1 (>= 1.9.1); however:
Package xulrunner-1.9.1 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-3.5 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-3.5-branding:
firefox-3.5-branding depends on firefox-3.5 (= 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1); however:
Package firefox-3.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-3.5-branding (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox:
firefox depends on firefox-3.5; however:
Package firefox-3.5 is not configured yet.
firefox depends on firefox-3.5-branding; however:
Package firNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
efox-3.5-branding is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-3.0:
firefox-3.0 depends on firefox-3.5; however:
Package firefox-3.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-3.0 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support:
xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support depends on xulrunner-1.9.1 (= 1.9.1.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1); however:
Package xulrunner-1.9.1 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-3.5-gnome-support:
firefox-3.5-gnome-support depends on firefox-3.5 (= 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1); however:
Package firefox-3.5 is not configured yet.
firefox-3.5-gnome-support depends on xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support; however:
Package xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-3.5-gnome-support (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-3.0-gnome-support:
firefox-3.0-gnome-support depends on firefox-3.5-gnome-support; however:
Package firefox-3.5-gnome-support is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-3.0-gnome-support (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-gnome-support:
firefox-gnome-support depends on firefox-3.5-gnome-support; however:
Package firefox-3.5-gnome-support is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-gnome-support (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
xulrunner-1.9.1
firefox-3.5
firefox-3.5-branding
firefox
firefox-3.0
xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support
firefox-3.5-gnome-support
firefox-3.0-gnome-support
firefox-gnome-support
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Any ideas how to get this to work?

Thanks.

[zvacet]

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[Soul-Sing]

1)
sudo apt-get -f install to force an install of the files

----if this doesn't work

2)
gksudo nautilus
navigate to /var/lib/dpkg/info and deleting everything that has this name:
xulrunner-1.9.1
firefox-3.5
firefox-3.5-branding
firefox
firefox-3.0
xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support
firefox-3.5-gnome-support
firefox-3.0-gnome-support
firefox-gnome-support
using the "searchoption" rightabove.


sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade
should "give" you your updated firefox back

[thundercatHO]

Thanks,

That seemed to got me to install xulrunner and firefox but now I got another firefox problem.

"Could not find compatible GRE version 1.9.1 and 1.9.1.*."

I remember seeing somewhere in another thread with something to do with this,
will try and search for that thread.

[Soul-Sing]

Thanks,

That seemed to got me to install xulrunner and firefox but now I got another firefox problem.

"Could not find compatible GRE version 1.9.1 and 1.9.1.*."

I remember seeing somewhere in another thread with something to do with this,
will try and search for that thread.

I will give it try too, if you found the thread please let us know.
it is definitly a xulrunner related problem, no doubt.

: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1343374
: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3108915.0

[jcoles]

I used

sudo apt-get --reinstall install xulrunner-1.9.1

to force a re-install of xulrunner.

I was suspicious that something was wrong with xulrunner when there was no response to "xulrunner" as a command.