firefox does not start Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install firefox (GUI Gnome). 2.Try to start firefox from GUI (not console) 3.Firefox does not open, but it is displayed in ps -e Actual Results: Firefox does not start sometimes with open window. Expected Results: Firefox should start always with ioen window.
Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 17 May 2007 02:50:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -s" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -s" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fix-packages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/gentoo/ rsync://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ rsync://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/gentoo/ rsync://gentoo.intergenia.de/gentoo-linux/ rsync://ftp.belnet.be/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/gentoo/ rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ rsync://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo/ rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.rhnet.is/gentoo/ rsync://mirror.hamakor.org.il/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j1 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bindits bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cdparanoia cdr cli cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd evo firefox flac ftp gif glibc-omitfp gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 java javascript jpeg kerberos ldap libg++ mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mpeg2 ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wxGTK x264 xine xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Well, it does start just fine here. Sorry but you'll have to provide some steps to actually reproduce the bug. Which firefox version? Is this www-client/mozilla-firefox or www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin? If the first one, can you reproduce it w/ mozilla-firefox-bin? Do you get any errors? Etc. etc. etc.
It is version 2.0.0.3 of mozilla-firefox.
I will report back with mozilla-firefox-bin.