Re: Firefox won't start unless mozilla is open?
On 11:02 Fri 28 Oct , Lance wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I am running a combination of SID and SARGE. Ever since I installed the
> AMD64 system I have
> had problems with Firefox 1.0.7 and Thunderbird 1.0.7. At first it
> would take 5-24 attempts to
> open Firefox before I could evenually get it open. I would have to keep
> killing it with pkill firefox-bin
> before the next attempt. I finally discovered that if I opened Mozilla
> up first then I would have a better
> chance of opening firefox afterwards. For example, my machine has been
> up for 3 days without a reboot
> and hence, firefox has been open for a while. I closed firefox and
> tried to reopen it. Nothing happened
> until I opened Mozilla and then Firefox opened immediately!
>
I had this similar problem because firefox can not connect to the
xserver.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/08/msg00489.html
So you might want to test it by running xhost + then start firefox.
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