On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:41:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On 2009-08-12 22:52:14 -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:21:00 +0200, Vincent Lefevre in >> gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> > Also, check that you don't have a firefox already running (maybe >> > hidden), otherwise when you run a second instance, it will send a >> > message to the old one and exit silently (IIRC). >> >> Good point. Twas OK though. > > If you still don't know the cause of the problem, I suggest something > like "strace -f -o strace.out ./firefox". This may be very helpful, > in order to know what happens internally (in particular the files > that are read, what is executed and so on).
Wow talk about copious output, only 4002 lines. I have no idea what it all means. There are lots of 'no such file/directory' warnings. If you're interested in the tail; "4011 <... futex resumed> ) = ? ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK (To be restarted) 4005 <... waitpid resumed> [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 1}], 0) = 4009 4005 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 4005 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- 4005 waitpid(-1, 0xbfe68ff8, WNOHANG) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes) 4005 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) 4005 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x807ef30, [], 0}, 8) = 0 4005 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 4005 read(255, "\nexit $exitcode\n"..., 8176) = 16 4005 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 4005 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 4005 exit_group(1) = ? 4002 <... waitpid resumed> [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 1}], 0) = 4005 4002 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 4002 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- 4002 waitpid(-1, 0xbfd7b5f8, WNOHANG) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes) 4002 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) 4002 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x807ef30, [], 0}, 8) = 0 4002 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 4002 read(255, "exitcode=$?\n\nexit $exitcode\n# EOF"..., 3883) = 35 4002 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 4002 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 4002 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 4002 exit_group(1) = ? " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org