Re: iceweasel broken after update
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 12:51:44 John O Laoi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using squeeze on kernel 2.6.30-2-686 on a dell precision laptop
>
> After running aptitude safe-upgrade yesterday, and accepting all of
> the suggestions,
> iceweasel appears broken today.
>
> When I start it I get a screen with the message
>
> “Well, this is embarrassing.
> Iceweasel is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is
> usually caused by a recently opened web page.
> You can try:
> Removing one or more tabs that you think may be causing the problem
> Starting an entirely new browsing session”
>
> On opening a new session, when I browse to a new page, other than the
> home page, iceweasel dies.
>
>
> Should I just do the following?
>
> aptitude remove iceweasel
> aptitude install iceweasel
>
>
>
>
>
> The following is the output of
> # aptitude show iceweasel
>
> Package: iceweasel
>
> State: installed
>
> Automatically installed: no
>
> Version: 3.5.5-1
>
> Priority: optional
>
> Section: web
>
> Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages
> <pkg-mozilla-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
>
> Uncompressed Size: 4,067k
>
> Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, procps, debianutils (>= 1.16), libc6 (>=
> 2.3.6-6~),
>
> libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>=
> 2.8.0),
>
> libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), xulrunner-1.9.1
>
> Suggests: xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support, latex-xft-fonts, xfonts-mathml,
>
> ttf-mathematica4.1, xprint, mozplugger, libkrb53
>
> Conflicts: iceweasel-dom-inspector (< 3.0~b4)
>
> Replaces: iceweasel-gnome-support (<= 3.0~b5-2)
>
> Provides: www-browser
>
> Description: lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
>
> Iceweasel is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to
> Galeon,
>
> K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface language and
>
> designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.
>
>
>
> This browser is based on the Firefox source-code, with minor
> modifications.
>
> Historically, this browser was previously known as Firebird and Phoenix.
>
You may try to rename .mozilla folder in your home folder and restart
iceweasel
Thierry
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