xulrunner 1.9 - Bus error, exit status 135, now no Firefox

[madmaxnj]

Well it was telling met that there were a bunch of updates that I needed so I clicked to install them all. Something failed during the installation of the updates. It flagged and crash error, but I didn't write down what it was. After that I rebooted and Firefox wouldn't launch. It would start to, I would see it start on the status bar, but then would just go away. I went into Synaptic Package Manager and tried to reload Firefox. Here i get an error:
E: xulrunner-1.9:subprocess post-installation script returned error
exit status 135
E:firefox-3.0:dependency problems - leaving unconfigured (and a bunch more of these 'leaving unconfigured messages).

Digging into the detailed printout it starts to go south with:
Setting up xulrunner-1.9 (1.9.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1)...
bus error
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned exit status 135


So I tried to reload xulrunner and get the same thing.

I've gone through this now in a couple of different orders include deletes and new installs to no avail.

Any ideas? Can I go back a version on xulrunner and Firefox somehow? I don't see older versions in the Synaptic Package Manager.

Help? I configured this box to be a web surfer and now I can't surf the web. Thanks!

[madmaxnj]

Help. xulrunner 1.9 is killing me. How do I revert back to a previously operational version of xulrunner and FF?

I've been all over the forums and other people are having the same problem, but nobody has a fix.

[madmaxnj]

I've seen other posts with people having the same problems with this update, but nobody has a solution. I had to uninstall xulrunner 1.9 and FF3 (and all their subcomponents) and install SeaMonkey 1.1.12 to get this box back online. Now that it works, I'm worried to try to update anything since I suspect it will bring me right back to the state where nothing works.

anybody have any ideas on this? I know its not just me.

[Toshick]

I have the same problem on fresh installed Ubuntu 9.04. Is any solution exists?

[mooseydoom]

I had this error when my computer crashed while in the middle of updating. I had to force removal of xulrunner:

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

Then remove, and re-install firefox

sudo apt-get remove firefox*
sudo apt-get install firefox

[sunilsattiraju]

I am having the same problem, tried mooseydoom method, but still the same error.

has anyone found a solution to this problem?

[dmazzone]

I had this error when my computer crashed while in the middle of updating. I had to force removal of xulrunner:

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

Then remove, and re-install firefox

sudo apt-get remove firefox*
sudo apt-get install firefox

Spent nearly a half hour in this issue, thank you so much for the solution

[sleepingpeace]

I had this error when my computer crashed while in the middle of updating. I had to force removal of xulrunner:

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

Then remove, and re-install firefox

sudo apt-get remove firefox*
sudo apt-get install firefox

No idea what that did, but it worked!