On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 05:16:37 -0400 Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote: > wordwrap off so as not to rip up long lines. > > On Thursday 02 April 2015 02:35:00 Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:54:02 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > Iceweasel commited suicide when I was asked by my bank to delete > > > its history, so now all I get is a blank terminal screen that is > > > using 100% of a cpu core until I kill it as root. A total purge > > > and reinstall didn't fix it. > > > > > > Chromium seems incapable of performing an online credit card > > > transaction. And crashes anytime I go to abcnews.go.com > > > > > > So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it > > > into my home dirs bin subdir. But thats likely not going to be > > > great as it probably looks someplace else for its libraries & > > > such. > > > > > > So where is the std place it would normally live? If it can still > > > find the old iceweasel password cache, that would be a huge plus. > > > > Just unpack it wherever you want it - /opt/firefox for example, and > > put a symlink to the binary somewhere in your $PATH. It uses the > > configuration and everything it can find in your home dir, so that > > shouldn't be a problem. > > > > Petter > > Fun & games but not S&G. Network-Manager had the last word when I > excised that piece of insanity, the SOB zeroed out the eth0 settings > in /etc/network/interfaces. Bad dog, no biscuit from me. > > All discovered and I think fixed as I appear to have restored > networking now. > > All triggered by discovering that the reason I was into swap all the > time was that for the last 12 days I had been running a 32 bit rtai > kernel which is NOT PAE, seems I need to edit the default number in > /boot/grub/grub.cnf, it is not pointing at a 64 bit 3.2.0-4amd64 > vmlinuz. That discovery in turn triggered by firefox spitting out a > tummy ache on start attempts. > > I renamed the firefox script in /usr/bin/ which was actually running > iceweasel to /usr/bin/firefux, then made a symlink from > > /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox from /usr/bin/firefox. > > So, rebooted to a true 64 bit kernel, but 64 bit firefox refuses to > run: gene@coyote:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Apr 2 04:03 /usr/bin/firefox > -> /home/gene/bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox Which is correct. But > First try it like the renamed script does it: > gene@coyote:~$ firefox "$@" > bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory > Then try w/o the argument. > gene@coyote:~$ firefox > bash: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory There is something wrong with your link, it links to a file it can't find. If you run: petter@monster:~$ ln -s foo bar petter@monster:~$ ./bar bash: ./bar: No such file or directory (provided there is no file called "foo") you see you get the same error. What does "ls -l /usr/bin/firefox" show you? > Its 5am, and I don't seem to have even one eye open simultaineously... Therefore you've probably mistyped your symlink, I would guess :) > The firefox binary itself > gene@coyote:~$ ls -l bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gene gene 147776 Mar 26 23:51 > bin/firefox-37/firefox/firefox > > Its there and executable. I can't even run it from there with > sh ./firefox > or sh ./firefox-bin either of which gets this error: > gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ sh ./firefox > ./firefox: 2: ./firefox: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string Try "file firefox" - it will show you that it's not a script, it's a binary. If you run it with just "./firefox" it should work. > I could use a clue, which will probably make me slap my forhead & > yell Duh. Try some of the above, and report back what "file" and "ls -l" on the symlink shows you if it doesn't work. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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