Re: firefox-crash (1.0.4-2sarge2)

[Oliver Lupton <oliverlupton@gmail.com>]

Brett wrote:

> Greetings,
> I just updated firefox yesterday and today it is giving me some 
> problems. First it was seg faulting all over the place (eg when 
> opening a new window or opening the extensions window). So I tried to 
> uninstall all extensions (which I though might be the problem), but 
> firefox kept crashing too much to do that. So I deleted my .mozilla 
> profile directory, but now it wouldn't start at all. It gives the error:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
>
> (firefox-bin:1615): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> So I killed Xwindows and still the same error. I removed 
> mozilla-firefox (with --purge), re-installed and still the error. I 
> tried rebooting and still no luck. Thunderbird (where I write this) 
> and all other apps work fine.
>
> This is with firefox 1.0.4-2sarge2
>
> Any ideas are appreciated,
> Brett
Maybe check (ps aux | grep firefox) if there's still a firefox running 
somewhere?
Just a thought.

Cheers

Oliver