Firefox, Thunderbird and Chromium won't start [solved]

vitoriung · Last edited by vitoriung on Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:27 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,
I've been fighting with this few days already. Cannot start any of these programs.

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Do you have this file:

vitoriung · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:35 pm Post subject:

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Post your emerge --info please.

vitoriung · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:13 pm Post subject:

Here -

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Could be dbus is missing in your USE flags.
It should be in there and world updated with --newuse --deep, which will also rebuild both firefox and xulrunner, then dbus added to the default runlevel and started.
A run through revdep-rebuild afterwards couldn't hurt.

vitoriung · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject:

ok added the dbus, firefox anf thunderbird has re-merged but still don't work.

Any other idea?

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

What if you try creating a temporary testuser, put it in the video group, login an X session and start firefox?

vitoriung · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject:

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Have you also tried rebuilding dev-libs/nspr-4.8.4 followed by revdep-rebuild ?

If I run a command to emerge firefox and all the depends, this is the output. I suppose that in theory the problem could be with any one of them - maybe. Have a look:

vitoriung · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:37 pm Post subject:

that one dev-libs/nspr didn't help either,
I actually wanted to ask how to figure out all dependencies before i came to report the result, nice command lol,
I will try to re-emerge all of them as well.

Thanks

Jaglover · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:49 pm Post subject:

Have you run python-updater?

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Ya, good idea, also make sure that eselect python show = python2.6 first.

And if you do re-emerge all the depends, run revdep-rebuild as well after.

vitoriung · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:04 pm Post subject:

So,
I have re-emerged all the packages && rev-deprebuild, din't help

python updater didn't help either:

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

No, there is dev-python/PyQt4

Maybe your /var/lib/portage/world file needs cleaning up?

I think there used to be a dev-python/PyQt in portage, but no longer, so if you have one emerged, you should unmerge it.

Try emerge --depclean -av carefully, maybe there is old stuff on your system that's causing problems.

vitoriung · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:34 pm Post subject:

python-updater got to the re-emerge process finally after cleaning PyQt-3.17.4 and pyxf86config-0.3.34-r1:

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

vitoriung · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:26 pm Post subject:

EUREKA!!!

depclean resolved the issue for all 3 of them

I didn't have idea that cleaning of old packages is so important, I tended to rather not touch packages I don't know when running emerge --depclean and delete ones I am sure I don't need.

That was a bit of a hassle to get there on the end, but at least I know my system is cleaner and more stable and that's always good feeling and reason why to use Gentoo, because it's (almost)always fun with it

Thanks for your help mate!

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Nice.

Keeping the system nice and clean and up-to-date is so important for smooth running.
I do it after every update, and I update often like this every time: