Can't get Firefox to start after performing OS security updates

Just did the most recent updates on OS-X 10.6.8, and now I can't get Firefox to start. It comes up and says that it is having problems (the "embarassing" window) and that I should try closing tabs. However, it's not responding at all, so finally I have to resort to force quit. I've try cold starting the computer with no effect.

Let's try this. You said you are trying to start Firefox 8 on the problem machine? Can you try downloading Firefox 11 from [http://www.getfirefox.com www.getfirefox.com], install that, restart your computer, then see if it still acts up?
If it does, try running Firefox in [[Safe mode|Safe mode]].

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When I click on the logo, nothing happens. I downloaded a malware program but found nothing.

Download from the Mozilla Official website
*http://mozilla.org/
*http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

I can't get Firefox to start. It says that Firefox is already running after re-install and re-start it again. I have deleted all profiles, but no luck. HELP!

I can't get Firefox to start. It says that Firefox is already running after re-install and re-start it again. I have deleted all profiles, but no luck. HELP! edit

-> [[Firefox is already running but is not responding]]
-> Profile in use
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use
Check and tell if its working.

Can't get firefox to start

Clic on firefox icon - get wait symbol - after a few seconds it goes away & firefox never loads

eddyc,
I'm not totally confident I have removed everything I need to - is the taskbar at the bottom left hand side of screen?. I went into control panel-programs-uninstall a program and found "IMinent Toolbar" (3.37 MB) that was installed on May 15th. IMinent was the name of the browser I removed. I also saw another toolbar titled "Searchqu" (29MB) published by Bandoo Media with an install date of 5-18, which is the same date when all my problems begun. I notice now that when I launch internet explorer it goes to this address "http://searchnu.com/421". I have previously downloaded malwarebytes & I'm running it now.
I did find firefox running under the task manager-processes tab. I closed it, then tried to relaunch firefox with the same results - the cursor turns into a small rotating circle (wait) for 4-5 seconds, then goes back to a pointer & firefox never starts. No help.
I'm a little hesitant to delete firefox without actually backing up my profile, mostly because I'm concerned about loosing my bookmarks. Should I try to do that first?
Note: I went into control panel-programs-change start up programs & found a Bandoo Media data manager, filename DATAMN-1.exe. Installed 5-18-12. I can't help thinking that my problems are due to the accidental downloading of the Bandoo stuff & that it is hijacking firefox and who knows what else. Should I try to uninstall the Searchqu stuff before I remove/reload firefox?
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PS: Malwarebytes didn't find anything but it was out off date so I'm updating it & will run again.

I can't get Firefox to start at all. It won't even open so I can't reset it. Can you help?

Firefox has been my browser for the last 7 years and I have never had a problem with it. But over the weekend it crashed and now it just won't open. I've uninstalled and redownloaded it but it still won't open. I can't reset anything as I can't get into it. I'm not sure what recent updates or add ons I had.
I really want to continue using Firefox as it's a great browser but I need it to open. Please can you help?

You can use the Profile Manager to create a new profile.
See "Creating a profile":
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from an existing profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over the problem.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

Hi, i updated to firefox 8. i cant even get firefox to start. it states a previous update needs to take effect and a reboot is needed. but nothing happens.

i updated to firefox 8. i now cant get firefox to operate at all.
it asks to reboot pc everytime i try to start or uninstall.
nothing happens after reboot as you try to start firefox again and it askes the same thing

See the [[Latest Firefox issues]] article. Try the first suggestion, to download the Firefox installer from mozilla.org/firefox and then reinstall Firefox (see [[Installing Firefox on Windows]] for detailed instructions).
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Outlook from Office 2011 can't start after OS X Security Update 2014-005

I just installed Security Update 2014-005 on OS X v10.9.5 in a MacBook Pro (2012). After the OS restarts, Microsoft Outlook from Office 2011 fails to start. Did anyone else experience this issue and have a solution that can be shared?

Try u-installing Office and re-installing.
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I can only get Firefox to start if I restore my system to an earlier date (the previous day for instance). If I just close down Firefox I cannot sart it up agian without a system restore -- yet it does not show as a task which is running after I click ont

Restored machine. Opened Firefox - all is well.
2. Closed Firefox. 3. Clicked on Firefocx shortcut - no Firefox ran. 4 Clicked on Firefox in program list - no Firefox ran.
5. Restored to the previous restore point; clicked on Firefox shortcut - Firefox ran.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== a month ago.

Thank you for your help Nattgew.
Boinc is already running in the background as a service. There is no need to run "boinc" on the command line. The error you see is because it is trying to start Boinc again from the command line, but the service is already running and has claimed the port 31416.
I know, it was in order to give all the possible feedback.
I'm not sure why boincmgr won't connect... could you be more specific about what happens when you run it?
No, I can't be more specific than I've already been above. I've described all that I see that happens.
Other than that, the wiki tells you where to look at the log file (make sure there are no errors there) and explains the password for connecting (sounds like you already took care of that, but good to double check).
As you can see I've searched all the errors I got in the boinc wiki. I know what they mean, but not why are happening.
I think my problems come from a bad management of the files permissions by the package installation. I mean, when a package is installed there should be an script or something that modifies (or create the files with) the permissions that files must have, or create the groups that need to be created, and so on. But it looks like I have to modify all this data in order to get boincmngr connect to boinc, boinc and boincmngr get the writting permissions in the installation folder too, etc etc etc. I don't know very well how to do all this stuff (I mean that I've already created by hand the boinc group, changed the execution, access, modification of files with users and boinc groups credentials, and I still get silly errors as "boinc can't write" in a folder which is the owner, or can't write executed by the root. All this stuff messed me up because looks too much stupid), but more important, I shouldn't to do it manually after a package installation.
I should open a bug report in arhlinux first and if they can't solve the problem open it in the boinc support, I suppose.

Can't get OPP service started after OATM due to can't open file for reading

This is my second run on the OATM upgrade. OPP (and thus XML reports) came up fine after the 2nd run. After this run, had some issues with enqueing and solved them in an S/R with Oracle, but now I can't start OPP. I have tried all sorts of things, like aborting it in OATM, restarting, shutting down instance, running cmclean twice, resubmitting request, etc. Here is the error I get:
As System Administrator in forms, go to:
Concurrent -> Manager -> Administer
-> pick Output Post Processor (from the many manager in the list)
-> by the way it says "Activating" under status, seems stuck there.
-> then hit the Processes button
-> it will show a long list of "Terminated" and default to the first
one at the top.
-> Hit the "Manager Log" button
-> you now get
"APP-FND-01632: Cannot open file
/sechi/applcsf/log/SECHI_orav880d/FNDOPP1380237.txt for reading
Cause: [Routine] encountered an error when attempting to open file
sechi/applcsf/log/SECHI_orav880d/FNDOPP1380237.txt for reading
Action: Verify that the filename is correct, the environment variables
controlling that filename are correct, and the file exists.
Action: Verify that protections on that file permit reading by this
program
- but what is wierd is that the permissions on this dir are 777. I can see old OPP logs in that directory from before OATM. I can manually create a file with the name it complains about , then the app opens up the blank file with nothing in it. It seems that file is not getting created, not that it can't be opened.
If I need to change the log level of OPP please also tell me how to do that if it would provide some clues.
THanks Marvin

One more thing I am going to try first....
I am going to change the service ID of the OPP manager. It keeps trying
to restart the dead process maybe that it is..
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Starting WFMGSMD Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:33:37
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383584), Service Instance=(1012)
Starting WFMGSMS Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:33:37
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383585), Service Instance=(1013)
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Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383586), Service Instance=(1011)
Starting FNDCPOPP Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:33:37
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383587), Service Instance=(1011)
Starting FNDCPOPP Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:33:38
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383588), Service Instance=(1011)
Starting FNDCPOPP Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:33:38
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383589), Service Instance=(1011)
Starting FNDCPOPP Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:33:38
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383590), Service Instance=(1011)
Process monitor session ended : 25-JUN-2010 20:33:38
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Starting WFMGSMD Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:35:39
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383591), Service Instance=(1012)
Starting WFMGSMS Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:35:39
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383592), Service Instance=(1013)
Starting FNDCPOPP Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:35:39
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383593), Service Instance=(1011)
Starting FNDCPOPP Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:35:39
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383594), Service Instance=(1011)
Starting FNDCPOPP Concurrent Manager : 25-JUN-2010 20:35:39
Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383595), Service Instance=(1011)
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Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383596), Service Instance=(1011)
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Found dead process: spid=(999999), cpid=(1383597), Service Instance=(1011)
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[SOLVED] Can't get PostgreSQL to start after following Wiki instruc...

I'm trying to start the postgresql service on my systemd installation. I've followed the instructions on the wiki. First I installed the package postgresql, then I uncommented the PGROOT line in the configuration file.
When I try to run systemctl start postgresql, I get the following:
# systemctl start postgresql
Job for postgresql.service failed. See 'systemctl status postgresql.service' and 'journalctl -n' for details.
# systemctl status postgresql
postgresql.service - PostgreSQL database server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql.service; disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun, 2012-10-28 14:08:48 CET; 34s ago
Process: 12687 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/postgresql-check-db-dir ${PGROOT}/data (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/postgresql.service
Oct 28 14:08:48 nemesis systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL database server...
Oct 28 14:08:48 nemesis postgres[12687]: "/var/lib/postgres/data" is missing or empty. Use a command like
Oct 28 14:08:48 nemesis postgres[12687]: su - postgres -c "initdb --locale en_US.UTF-8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'"
Oct 28 14:08:48 nemesis postgres[12687]: with relevant options, to initialize the database cluster.
Oct 28 14:08:48 nemesis systemd[1]: Failed to start PostgreSQL database server.
Oct 28 14:08:48 nemesis systemd[1]: Unit postgresql.service entered failed state
I tried doing what it suggested to me:
# su - postgres -c "initdb --locale en_US.UTF-8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'"
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.UTF-8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
creating directory /var/lib/postgres/data ... initdb: could not create directory "/var/lib/postgres/data": Permission denied
I also tried with the directory that was set in the configuration file, with similar results:
# su - postgres -c "initdb --locale en_US.UTF-8 -D '/var/lib/postgres'"
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.UTF-8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgres ... initdb: could not change permissions of directory "/var/lib/postgres": Operation not permitted
I don't know what to try next. I'm not sure what it needs me to do that it can't do itself. I've never worked with any kind of database system, I'm just installing PostgreSQL to start tinkering with it a bit for some pet projects.
Thanks for your time
Last edited by robrene (2012-10-28 13:24:52)

Whelp, stupid me. Right after posting I managed to fix it myself. I'll post the solution and leave it here in case other people run into the same problem. The solution was to change the owner of the PGROOT directory and then running the initdb command again:
# chown -R postgres:postgres /var/lib/postgres/
# su - postgres -c "initdb --locale en_US.UTF-8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'"

Can't get CS4 to start after disk change

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