Re: firefox-37, where to put
On Thursday 02 April 2015 13:48:23 The Wanderer wrote:
> On 04/02/2015 at 01:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 April 2015 09:34:36 Petter Adsen wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 09:24:19 -0400
> >>
> >>
> >> petter@monster:~/Downloads/firefox$ ls -l firefox
> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 petter petter 147776 mars 27 04:51 firefox
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gene gene 147776 Mar 26 23:51 firefox>
> >
> >> petter@monster:~/Downloads/firefox$ ldd firefox
> >> linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffcfabd4000)
> >> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
> >> (0x00007f281ae50000)
> >> libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
> >> (0x00007f281ac4c000)
> >> librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1
> >> (0x00007f281aa43000)
> >> libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
> >> (0x00007f281a734000)
> >> libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6
> >> (0x00007f281a42c000)
> >> libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
> >> (0x00007f281a215000)
> >> libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> >> (0x00007f2819e4b000)
> >> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f281b091000)
> >
> > whereas here:
> > gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ ldd firefox
> > not a dynamic executable
> > I also tried a sudo ldd firefox and got exactly the same response.
> >
> > Now, is not ldd itself an executable?
> > gene@coyote:~/bin/firefox-37/firefox$ ldd /usr/bin/ldd
> > not a dynamic executable
> > WTH????
>
> $ file /usr/bin/ldd
> /usr/bin/ldd: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable
>
> If you want to test ldd, try it on /bin/true or suchlike - or at least
> check with file first, to make sure that what you're testing it on is
> actually a binary file.
>
> >> And see what you get. Note that this isn't a Debian machine, so
> >> you won't get the same library versions, but they should be
> >> similar. If you have the same version of FF that I dl'ed, then the
> >> md5sums should be identical. Otherwise, something is corrupted.
> >>
> >>> And iceweasel has recovered. No history but prefs are intact
> >>> ????
> >>
> >> Didn't you start this thread by saying you deleted your history?
> >>
> >> :)
> >
> > Yes, but all it had been able to do after the re-install was start 2
> > copies, spinning its wheels with 1 of my phenoms cores pegged out
> > and north of 150C for temps. And it was just cleaned & regreased
> > with Artic Silver in Oct 2014. One of my annual rites.
>
> My guess is that it was parsing (and partly choking on) some part of
> your user profile, and that the reason it "came back" is that it
> managed to finish that process.
>
> Normally that shouldn't require nearly that long or nearly that much
> system load, but in some cases it may be possible.
Apparently so. But I don't recall launching it again after killing it
for the 5th+ time. I'd gone to bed around midnight, the ^%#@! phone
woke me up about 3:45, and when I'd checked see if ther was a message,
no, recycled most of a cuppa, and came in here to find it on-screen and
idle surprised me.
> If you want to guarantee avoiding that entirely, the only way to do it
> that I know of is to remove the entire Firefox profile
> (~/.mozilla/firefox/profiledirname) and start from scratch. That would
> remove all of your preferences and extensions (as well as your
> history, et cetera), however, so it's a considerably more drastic move
> - and not one I'd consider for myself, without _extensive_ research
> into possible alternatives.
Same attitude here, Wanderer. Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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