Bug 62584 – mozilla-firefox won't start without gtk2 enabled

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jason Woofenden 2004-09-01 21:20:56 UTC]

compiled without gtk2 and it would not start up. Simply printed "No running windows found.". When I ran /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin directly, it exited right away with an exit code of 1.

Here's the strace of /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin:

http://herkamire.com/downloads/firefox_strace

and ldd /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin:

http://herkamire.com/downloads/firefox_ldd

and finally emerge info on my box:

http://herkamire.com/downloads/emerge_info

This problem went away when I rebuild mozilla-firefox with USE=gtk2

Thanks,

          - Jason

[Comment 1 Christopher O'Neill 2004-09-18 09:36:29 UTC]

I have the same problem, it also affects Thunderbird.  Previous versions worked fine.

[ebuild   R   ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre  -debug -debug +gnome +gtk2 +gtk2 -ipv6 +java +java -ldap -mozdevelop -moznoxft -moznoxft -mozxmlterm +truetype+xinerama +xinerama +xprint  0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-0.8  +crypt -debug -debug +gnome +gtk2 +gtk2 +java -ldap -moznoxft +xinerama +xprint  0 kB

[Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-11-13 19:58:36 UTC]

Problem is stuff hanging around in the profile.  Current mozilla-launcher fixes the problem by removing problematic files from the profile the first time you run after updating.

Update to mozilla-firefox-1.0-r2 and you shouldn't have the problem.  Of course you also lose gtk1 support but them is the brakes... no more upstream support for gtk1.