[SOLVED] Firefox - silent fail

Last thing I did before shutting down on Friday night (UK time), I upgraded. Since I've tried to run Firefox after that, it fails silently. The two events may not be connected, but it's the only thing I can think of that may be the cause.
The packages upgraded before the failure were:
mpfr -> 3.0.0-1
libmpc -> 0.8.2-2
gcc -> 4.5.0-6
gcc-libs -> 4.5.0-6
rasqal -> 0.9.19-1
Now I've not traced up the dependency tree, but I know xulrunner depends on gcc-libs - has anyone else had an issue with this version. Or any other of the above jump out at anybody?
Failing that, I've tried all the logs I can think of - no obvious messages. I've removed and reinstalled firefox and it's not helped. Any other debugging suggestions?
I've done a search and noticed the issues with pgo-firefox building and gcc - didn't read in detail, as most references to extra/firefox were of it rrunning okay. Also, on google there's been a few references to some ffx/gcc 4.5 compile issues. Could this be related?
I did think about compiling FFx, but ABS seems on my machine seems to be missing core & extra. Is this a mirror issue?
Finally I can't find a bug report mentioning it - but point me to any potentials I've missed.
I'll not be able to try anything until tomorrow now, but any suggestions (except moving off FFx) welcome.
Last edited by skanky (2010-06-21 09:13:13)

By fails silently do you mean it doesn't launch when you launch it and then doesn't shoot out any error messages?
If that is it, I had a similar problem. It was caused by i line in my zhrc:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libusb-driver.so
Which is a library that is used to communicate with a device I use. I would try launching firefox with a different shell from what you normally use (or with a different user) to see if it is in your .bashrc or whatever you use.
Another person with the same issue in a different thread fixed it by clearing their download list.
Hope that helps.

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I faced this annoying problem where mkinitcpio kept generating 20-byte initramfs images (for normal and fallback).
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Then, I checked the /boot directory and found that the initramfs images were 20 bytes! mkinitcpio was generating 20-byte images (essentially empty images). It had done so on the last kernel upgrade.
I was able to copy initramfs images from another Arch installation (same architecture, same kernel version) and boot Arch. I was unable to figure out why mkinitcpio was doing so. I tried reinstalling a few core packages (the build tools, grep etc.) but they didn't help.
I gave up and tried the brute force method of reinstalling all packages. It was then that pacman complained about conflicting files for libarchive - libarchive! I remembered that there had been a forced shutdown at some time when packages were being updated. libarchive.so was corrupted/missing and had to be copied from another system (pacman wouldn't function without it). I hadn't reinstalled libarchive then. I did so now, and voila! mkinitcpio worked properly again.
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I feel silly!
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[Solved] Firefox build fails

Hi @all,
I'm trying to build firefox-gtk3 from the AUR. Sadly, it fails with this error message:
checking for gcc c++0x headers bug without rtti... yes
configure: error: Your toolchain does not support C++0x/C++11 mode properly. Please upgrade your toolchain
------ config.log ------
confdefs.h:13:16: error: expected unqualified-id before 'unsigned'
#define size_t unsigned
^
confdefs.h:13:16: error: expected unqualified-id before 'unsigned'
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from configure:10760:
/usr/include/c++/4.9.2/functional:1849:26: error: '_M_max_size' was not declared in this scope
&& sizeof(_Functor) <= _M_max_size
^
/usr/include/c++/4.9.2/functional:1850:31: error: '_M_max_align' was not declared in this scope
&& __alignof__(_Functor) <= _M_max_align
^
/usr/include/c++/4.9.2/functional:1851:7: error: '_M_max_align' was not declared in this scope
&& (_M_max_align % __alignof__(_Functor) == 0));
^
configure: failed program was:
#line 10759 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
#include <memory>
int main() {
; return 0; }
configure: error: Your toolchain does not support C++0x/C++11 mode properly. Please upgrade your toolchain
*** Fix above errors and then restart with\
"make -f client.mk build"
checking for gcc c++0x headers bug without rtti... yes
configure: error: Your toolchain does not support C++0x/C++11 mode properly. Please upgrade your toolchain
------ config.log ------
confdefs.h:13:16: error: expected unqualified-id before 'unsigned'
#define size_t unsigned
^
confdefs.h:13:16: error: expected unqualified-id before 'unsigned'
#define size_t unsigned
^
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.9.2/memory:79:0,
from configure:10760:
/usr/include/c++/4.9.2/functional:1849:26: error: '_M_max_size' was not declared in this scope
&& sizeof(_Functor) <= _M_max_size
^
/usr/include/c++/4.9.2/functional:1850:31: error: '_M_max_align' was not declared in this scope
&& __alignof__(_Functor) <= _M_max_align
^
/usr/include/c++/4.9.2/functional:1851:7: error: '_M_max_align' was not declared in this scope
&& (_M_max_align % __alignof__(_Functor) == 0));
^
configure: failed program was:
#line 10759 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
#include <memory>
int main() {
; return 0; }
configure: error: Your toolchain does not support C++0x/C++11 mode properly. Please upgrade your toolchain
*** Fix above errors and then restart with\
"make -f client.mk build"
I've googled a bit, but couldn't find a solution. GCC Version is up to date, so I'm a bit confused. Can someone give me a hint?
Many thanks!
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Server silently fails on messages with a huge To: header; any ideas?

Our incoming relay (sendmail) occasionally receives messages which were sent to many recipients
(sometimes it's spam, sometimes valid maillists to which our users have subscribed). The messages
in question have a To: header which is typically over 6kb in size and over 80 lines long (and since
several recipients with short names/addresses may be grouped on one line, there's about a hundred
recipients listed).
It fails trying to relay these messages to our backend Sun Messaging Server (6.3-6.0.3 x64), and it
fails silently. I am not definitely sure that this is SMS's flaw and not Sendmails; but perhaps someone
can shed light on the matter? :)
SMS's mail.log_current receives such entries (here xxx.xxx.xxx.100 is the relay, xxx.xxx.xxx.73
is the backend server):
04-Dec-2008 16:54:44.62 tcp_local    +            O TCP|xxx.xxx.xxx.73|25|xxx.xxx.xxx.100|33728 SMTP
04-Dec-2008 16:59:44.62 tcp_intranet ims-ms       VE 0 [email protected] rfc822;[email protected] ouruser@ims-ms-daemon relay.domain.ru ([xxx.xxx.xxx.100]) '' Timeout after 5 minutes trying to read SMTP packet
04-Dec-2008 16:59:44.62 tcp_local    +            C TCP|xxx.xxx.xxx.73|25|xxx.xxx.xxx.100|33728 SMTP Timeout
after 5 minutes trying to read SMTP packetSendmail logs a broken connection:
Dec 4 17:01:27 relay sendmail[14689]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] mB47gCN4014672: SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to sunmail.domain.ru.: Broken pipe
Dec 4 17:01:27 relay sendmail[14689]: [ID 801593 mail.info] mB47gCN4014672: to=<[email protected]>, delay=00:07:01, xdelay=00:06:58, mailer=esmtp, pri=329059, relay=sunmail.domain.ru. [xxx.xxx.xxx.73], dsn=4.0.0, stat=DeferredSniffing the wire gives strange results: The SMTP dialog part seems okay, the message is submitted
(relayed) only for our local user's address. But the message is not transferred until sendmail dies.
When the sendmail process dies (due to timeout or by a manual kill), about 3 packets appear in the
sniffer's output, starting with the usual "Received: from" lines and other header parts. The last packet
has text from the middle of the To: header, often breaking mid-word. Perhaps it's some buffering error
in either the sending Sendmail or the receiving Sunmail, or some server TCP-networking/sniffer glitch.
If I manually edit the queue file (/var/spool/mqueue/qfmB47gCN4014672 for the sample above) and delete
most of the To: header's lines, the message goes through okay.
This just does not seem logical - the message header text seems to be compliant (that is, each single
line is short, although all sub-lines of To: concatenate to a rather large text; but not that extremely large).
Neither sendmail nor sun mail report any error except networking socket failure.
MTUs are the same on both servers (1500), and any other large message (i.e. with attachments),
relays okay.
Are there any known issues on Sun Messaging Server (or Sendmail for that matter) which look like
this and ring a bell to a casual reader? :) Perhaps Sieve filters, etc.?
Since sendmail does successfully receive this message from the internet, and none of our several
incoming milters break along the way, I don't think it should have a huge problem forwarding it to
another server (I'll try experimenting though). This is why I think it's possible that Sun mail may be
at fault.
# imsimta version
Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 64bit)
libimta.so 6.3-6.03 (built 17:15:08, Mar 14 2008; 64bit)
SunOS sunmail 5.10 Generic_127112-07 i86pc i386 i86pc

Hello all, thanks for your suggestions.
In short, I debugged with Shane's suggestions. Apparently, tcp_smtp_server didn't get
a byte for 5 minutes so the read() was locked. At least, there's no specific failing routine
in Sunmail, so I'm back to research about Sendmail and networking, buffering and so on.
As I mentioned, when relay's sendmail process is killed, the system spits out about 3
packets of header data to the network...
Details follow...
By "silently failing" i meant that no obvious SMTP error is issued. The connection hangs
until it's aborted and both servers only complain on that - a failed network connection.
The resulting problem is that the sendmail relay marks sunmail as "Deferring connections"
in its hoststatus table, and valid messages are not even attempted for submission. At the
moment we fixed that brutally but effectively - by removing the hoststatus file for our sunmail
via cron every minute.
Concerning Mark's post, these servers are in the same DMZ, on a Cisco 2960G switch
which caused no specific problems. I mentioned MTU's are the same and standard,
because a few weeks back we did have LDAP replication problems due to experiments
with Jumbo frames, but solved them internally (I posted on this in the DSEE forum, also
asking how to compare LDAPs: [http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5349017]).
We use this tandem of relay-backend servers for half a year now (and before we deployed
Sun Messaging Server, this sendmail relayed mails to our old server for many years).
So far this (large To:) is the only type of messages I see that cause such behavior; for
any other large mails the size does not matter, or at least some rejection explanation
is generated by one of the SMTP engines.
Shane, thanks for your help over and over ;)
I tried enabling the options you mentioned, ran "imsimta cnbuild" and reloaded the services.
Then I fired up the sniffer on the relay server, "tail -f mail.log_current" on the sunmail, and
submitted a "bad message" from the Sendmail queue.
In the sniffer the SMTP dialog went ok until submission of message data, where it hung as
before:
# ngrep "" tcp port 25 and host sunmail
T xxx.xxx.xxx.73:25 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.100:53200 [AP]
220 sunmail.domain.ru -- Server ESMTP (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.
3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 64bit))..
T xxx.xxx.xxx.100:53200 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.73:25 [AP]
EHLO relay.domain.ru..
T xxx.xxx.xxx.73:25 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.100:53200 [AP]
250-sunmail.domain.ru..250-8BITMIME..250-PIPELINING..250-CHUNKING..250-DSN..25
0-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES..250-EXPN..250-HELP..250-XADR..250-XSTA..250-XCIR..25
0-XGEN..250-XLOOP 4A70E733A15FFE33EF3564BD522B1348..250-STARTTLS..250-ETRN.
.250-NO-SOLICITING..250 SIZE 20992000..
T xxx.xxx.xxx.100:53200 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.73:25 [AP]
MAIL From:<[email protected]> SIZE=200312..
T xxx.xxx.xxx.73:25 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.100:53200 [AP]
250 2.5.0 Address and options OK...
T xxx.xxx.xxx.100:53200 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.73:25 [AP]
RCPT To:<[email protected]> NOTIFY=SUCCESS,FAILURE,DELAY..DATA..
T xxx.xxx.xxx.73:25 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.100:53200 [AP]
250 2.1.5 [email protected] and options OK...
T xxx.xxx.xxx.73:25 -> xxx.xxx.xxx.100:53200 [AP]
354 Enter mail, end with a single "."...
#In the mail.log_current just one line appeared:
05-Dec-2008 10:51:18.46 tcp_local    +            O TCP|xxx.xxx.xxx.73|25|xxx.xxx.xxx.100|53200 SMTPSince it also mentions tcp_local channel, I decided to enable slave_debug on that as well.
Rebuilt the configs, and ran msg-stop to see if the processes actually die. When I checked
the "netstat -an | grep -w 25" and "ps -ef" outputs, there was indeed a tcp_smtp_server
process running:
mailsrv 23594   656   0 10:50:08 ?           0:00 /opt/SUNWmsgsr/messaging64/lib/tcp_smtp_serverBoth the sunmail and sendmail relay kept the socket ESTABLISHED. I took a pstack
of the tcp_smtp_server (below) and killed it with SIGSEGV so I have a core dump if
needed. Then I started the services and submitted the message from the queue again.
The SMTP dialog log was actually from tcp_local, and it ended with the lines like these
(note that even in this detailed log it just died with "network read failed" after 5 minutes,
I inserted an empty line to make it more visible):
11:21:18.26: Good address count 1 defer count 0
11:21:18.26: Copy estimate after address addition is 2
11:21:18.26: mmc_rrply: Return detailed status information.
11:21:18.26: mmc_rrply: Returning
11:21:18.26: Sending    : "250 2.1.5 [email protected] and options OK."
11:21:18.26: Received   : "DATA"
11:21:18.26: mmc_waend(0x00749cc0) called.
11:21:18.26:   Copy estimate is 2
11:21:18.26:   Queue area size 35152252, temp area size 2785988
11:21:18.26:   8788063 blocks of effective free queue space available; setting disk limit accordingly.
11:21:18.26:   1392994 blocks of free temporary space available; setting disk limit accordingly.
11:21:18.26: Sending    : "354 Enter mail, end with a single "."."
11:26:18.27: os_smtp_read: [9] network read failed with error 145
11:26:18.27:     Error: Connection timed out
11:26:18.27:   Generating V records for all addresses on channel ims-ms                          .
11:26:18.27: mmc_flatten_address: Flattening address tree into a list.
11:26:18.27:   Tree prior to flattening:
11:26:18.27: Level/Node/Left/Right Address
11:26:18.27: 0/0x0072ea30/0x00000000/0x00866050
11:26:18.27: 1/0x00866050/0x00751ef8/0x00751ef8 ouruser@ims-ms-daemon
11:26:18.27: Zero address: 0x00751ef8
11:26:18.27: smtpc_enqueue returning a status of 137 (Timeout)
11:26:18.27: SMTP routine failure from SMTPC_ENQUEUE
11:26:18.27: pmt_close: [9] status 0Apparently, tcp_smtp_server didn't get a byte for 5 minutes so a read() call was locked
and perhaps this is what didn't allow stop-msg to kill this process...
At least, there's no specific failing routine in Sunmail, so I'm back to research about
Sendmail and networking, buffering and so on. As I mentioned, when relay's sendmail
process is killed, the system spits out about 3 packets of header data to the network...
The pstack output for a waiting tcp_smtp_server process follows, for completeness sake:
23594: /opt/SUNWmsgsr/messaging64/lib/tcp_smtp_server
----------------- lwp# 1 / thread# 1 --------------------
fffffd7ffd830007 lwp_park (0, 0, 0)
fffffd7ffd829c14 cond_wait_queue () + 44
fffffd7ffd82a1a9 _cond_wait () + 59
fffffd7ffd82a1d6 cond_wait () + 26
fffffd7ffd82a219 pthread_cond_wait () + 9
fffffd7ffededf3e dispatcher_initialize () + 66e
0000000000404078 main () + 768
00000000004036fc ???????? ()
----------------- lwp# 2 / thread# 2 --------------------
fffffd7ffd830007 lwp_park (0, fffffd7ffc5fdda0, 0)
fffffd7ffd829c14 cond_wait_queue () + 44
fffffd7ffd82a012 cond_wait_common () + 1c2
fffffd7ffd82a286 _cond_timedwait () + 56
fffffd7ffd82a310 cond_timedwait () + 30
fffffd7ffd82a359 pthread_cond_timedwait () + 9
fffffd7ffd520ff4 PR_WaitCondVar () + 264
fffffd7ffd529854 PR_Sleep () + 74
fffffd7ffd62d5d8 LockPoller () + 88
fffffd7ffd5289e7 _pt_root () + f7
fffffd7ffd82fd5b _thr_setup () + 5b
fffffd7ffd82ff90 _lwp_start ()
----------------- lwp# 3 / thread# 3 --------------------
fffffd7ffd830007 lwp_park (0, fffffd7ffc3fdda0, 0)
fffffd7ffd829c14 cond_wait_queue () + 44
fffffd7ffd82a012 cond_wait_common () + 1c2
fffffd7ffd82a286 _cond_timedwait () + 56
fffffd7ffd82a310 cond_timedwait () + 30
fffffd7ffd82a359 pthread_cond_timedwait () + 9
fffffd7ffd520ff4 PR_WaitCondVar () + 264
fffffd7ffd529854 PR_Sleep () + 74
fffffd7ffd62d5d8 LockPoller () + 88
fffffd7ffd5289e7 _pt_root () + f7
fffffd7ffd82fd5b _thr_setup () + 5b
fffffd7ffd82ff90 _lwp_start ()
----------------- lwp# 4 / thread# 4 --------------------
fffffd7ffd830007 lwp_park (0, 0, 0)
fffffd7ffd829c14 cond_wait_queue () + 44
fffffd7ffd82a1a9 _cond_wait () + 59
fffffd7ffd82a1d6 cond_wait () + 26
fffffd7ffd82a219 pthread_cond_wait () + 9
fffffd7ffedf5fe8 pmt_refresh_stats () + d8
fffffd7ffd82fd5b _thr_setup () + 5b
fffffd7ffd82ff90 _lwp_start ()
----------------- lwp# 5 / thread# 5 --------------------
fffffd7ffedecf10 dispatcher_read(), exit value = 0x0000000000000000
        ** zombie (exited, not detached, not yet joined) **
----------------- lwp# 6 / thread# 6 --------------------
fffffd7ffd830007 lwp_park (0, fffffd7ffc1fded0, 0)
fffffd7ffd829c14 cond_wait_queue () + 44
fffffd7ffd82a012 cond_wait_common () + 1c2
fffffd7ffd82a286 _cond_timedwait () + 56
fffffd7ffd82a310 cond_timedwait () + 30
fffffd7ffd82a359 pthread_cond_timedwait () + 9
fffffd7ffeded829 dispatcher_housekeeping () + 1e9
fffffd7ffd82fd5b _thr_setup () + 5b
fffffd7ffd82ff90 _lwp_start ()
----------------- lwp# 14 / thread# 14 --------------------
fffffd7ffd83319a lwp_wait (d, fffffd7ffbdfdf24)
fffffd7ffd82c9de _thrp_join () + 3e
fffffd7ffd82cbbc pthread_join () + 1c
fffffd7ffedece66 dispatcher_joiner () + 36
fffffd7ffd82fd5b _thr_setup () + 5b
fffffd7ffd82ff90 _lwp_start ()
----------------- lwp# 13 / thread# 13 --------------------
fffffd7ffd832caa pollsys (fffffd7ffc1b9860, 1, fffffd7ffc1b97a0, 0)
fffffd7ffd7d9dc2 poll () + 52
fffffd7ffee6d7e8 pmt_recvfrom () + 868
0000000000405a3f os_smtp_read () + 1ff
0000000000404e3d smtp_get () + 9d
fffffd7ffec0fda7 big_smtp_read () + 797
fffffd7ffec36798 data () + a28
fffffd7ffec460ad smtpc_enqueue () + f9d
0000000000405343 tcp_smtp_slave () + 223
00000000004038a4 tcp_smtp_slave_pre () + 54
fffffd7ffedeccbc dispatcher_newtcp () + 46c
fffffd7ffd82fd5b _thr_setup () + 5b
fffffd7ffd82ff90 _lwp_start ()

Firefox 12 failed to restore my previous session!

Hi there!
Well, last night I shut down my computer from the Start menu in Vista. I believe I had closed Firefox manually before I proceeded with the shut down. I don't think it has anything to do with the way you exit Firefox, but I'm just saying it.
I usually have several tabs open in Firefox, this time I had about 50 of them and every time I close Firefox it prompts me if I want to save the tabs. I don't think this is a default setting, I think I set this up myself. So I just click the option which saves my tabs so that the next time I start Firefox I can continue where I left off.
I believe I clicked the save button last night as well. But today I started up Firefox and the tabs were gone.
I did follow the procedure for restoring the last session as described here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Firefox%20does%20not%20ask%20to%20save%20tabs%20and%20windows%20on%20exit?s=Firefox+12+failed+to+restore+previous+session%21&r=1&e=es&as=s
But the thing is I don't have the option to restore last session when I go to Firefox button and History.
Also, I have started and closed Firefox since that several times. So this restore option might only just restore the last tab I closed anyway. As described...
''If you close each window or tab, only the final window or tab that you closed will be available when you restart Firefox.''
Why did Firefox forget to restore my tabs?...
This happened to me once before but I don't remember how I restored the tabs.
And also, it happened once that Firefox failed to prompt me if I want to save my tabs, and instead prompted me with a whole different dialog, the one where it warns me that I'm about to close all open tabs and asks me to confirm.
There was no way around it so I intentionally ''crashed'' the computer, knowing that once I log on to Windows and start Firefox again it will restore my tabs automatically whether it wants to or not. And, of course, this proved to be true, all my tabs were back.
But did I really have to ''crash'' my comptuer for this? Maybe I could have crashed only the Firefox by terminating it's process... but it works either way. One time it asks, one time it doesn't ask to save tabs. Completely disregarding the settings! There is something seriously wrong here!
After that first incident I was again able to save my tabs on exit, it always asked me to save them from that point on, as I would expect it to. Until now...
Now it asks me if I ''want to'' save my tabs, and I say ''yes please'', just to find out the next morning it didn't restore them, as if they never were saved. Haha! LOL! Ridiculous! Haha, that Firefox 12! :) What a clown!
As mutch as this is a call for help in restoring those tabs, it is also a reminder to Firefox developers that something really stinks here! You need to work out the session save and restore mechanism in Firefox 12. Unluckily for me I had not installed the Session Manager extension. That's one tool that does better what Firefox should do by standard.

Yeah, if the tabs were not restored then unfortunately sessionstore.bak was overwritten. But you're taking it surprisingly well. :) Most people are pissed beyond belief, which is expected. :P
Also let me clear up the confusion between sessionstore.js & sessionstore.bak. Sessionstore.bak is the backup file that Firefox makes after every shutdown of Firefox. Sessionstore.js is the main file that stores all the data about tabs, app tabs and recently closed tabs & windows.
You can backup either one of these files but, like you did, it's best to check the modified timestamp on both files and most importantly their sizes. It will let you know how old that file is and the bigger the size of the file, the better. A 2kb file likely has 1 or 2 tabs, where a 500kb one has around 20 tabs or more.
But to keep it simple, just backup sessionstore.js.
And yes, great idea about Shadow Copy. I've used it on Windows 7 and it really is a life saver. I found it had around 20 or 30 backups for the places.sqlite which I was trying to recover. You could try to implement it on Vista with 3rd party software, I'd just read some reviews first.
Or you could install the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/ Session Manager addon] we both discussed earlier. Unless you think adding that add-on is overkill or you don't want to weigh down Firefox with another addon? But in this case, I think it does do what you want, which is backup your sessionstore.js everyday or every few days. I think the setting is customizable.
I'm praying for the day they create a "sessionstorebackups" folder like they have for the '''bookmarkbackups''' folder. That way we can have a better chance to recover the tabs.
'''Edit:''' You replied while I typed this. But great work! I didn't know Shadow Copy kept backups of files on Vista even though the service wasn't running. Anyway that's great news. And I see you'll be using Session Manager from now on. :D
And thanks for clearing up the part about Firefox prompting you to save your tabs at closing. I haven't seen Firefox do that in a while (the last version that showed that prompt was maybe 3.5?) so I was wondering what was going on there. :) Take care and have a good one!

How can I install Firefox SILENTLY in a specific installation folder, -ms with which parameters ?

How can I install Firefox SILENTLY in a specific installation folder, -ms with which parameters ?
"Firefox.exe_path" -ms OPTIONS ??
Thanks.

'''Is there a way to download FF to a USB from another computer and install it from that USB on my PC? '''
You basically answered your own question. If you have access to another computer just go download the appropriate language and OS version of Firefox 5.0 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html and put it on you usb drive and then go and install it onto you pc.

Since updating to Firefox 4.0.1 I have lost the site security ranking provided by Norton. can I incorporate this in the latest Firefox? Failing that, how can I return to my previous version?

Since updating to Firefox 4.0.1 I have lost the site security ranking provided by Norton. can I incorporate this in the latest Firefox? Failing that, how can I return to my previous version?

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Norton-Toolbar-not-compatible-with-FF-4-0-1/td-p/442788

Firefox Proxy Fail-over is not working correctly

I am in a corporate environment, where we must use a complex auto-proxy, by configuring an automatic proxy configuration of http://proxyconf/proxy.pac. I am seeing an intermittent failure with Firefox 3.6.13, where the same site will load after a delay in IE (e.g. it works for half an hour, then fails for a while, etc.).
By using Wireshark and tracing the packets, I have identified that a proxy server is intermittently failing, and Firefox is failing to try the second proxy. The auto proxy rule that is being invoked is:
if (!isResolvable(host)) return "PROXY 172.16.39.201:8080; PROXY 10.241.32.28:8080";
The problem is that Firefox is never failing over - it tries the 172 address 6 times in a row, then gives up and displays the "The proxy server is refusing connections" "Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections." "* Check the proxy settings to make sure that they are correct." "* Contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is working." error message. It continues with this behavior regardless of how many attempts, reloads, restarts are tried.
IE on the other hand will try and fail with the 172 address, and then start using the 10. address (which works correctly). Several other applications also work correctly, such as IRC clients.
Obviously the corporate proxy that is failing must be fixed, however Firefox is failing to utilitize the 2nd proxy after the first one fails.
Seems like a bug.
Is there some easy way for me to replace the proxy file with my own file? E.g. replace http://http://proxyconf/proxy.pac with file://c:\..., or use some add-on?
It must be an autoproxy script, as there is no single proxy that I can use for all addresses.

You can correct this issue by forcing the file blocklist.xml to update or wait until Firefox updates the file.<br />
That update will remove the severity="0" flags in the file that cause the problem.
See:
* [/questions/832793?page=2#answer-198407]
* http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=10899869#p10899869
*[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663722 Bug 663722] - The blocklist output is including severity="0" where it shouldn't be

System Preferences silently fails on relaunch

hi all..
I just installed a utility on 10.7.5 called Orbicule Witness. It adds a pane to System Preferences. On reboot following install of the utility I tried to access System Preferences and see the following in a Console App window:
13-04-01 12:09:19.602 AM System Preferences: dlopen_preflight failed with dlopen_preflight(/Library/PreferencePanes/Witness.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Witne ss): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/PreferencePanes/Witness.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Witness: GC capability mismatch for /Library/PreferencePanes/Witness.prefPane
and a dialog appears telling me "To use the Witness preferences pane, System Preferences must quit and reopen.". So i press "OK" and it sends the following message to the console:
13-04-01 12:10:35.219 AM launcher: posix_spawnattr_setbinpref_np failed
This is consistently reproducible. It seems that System Preferences is trying to relaunch in a fashion that is compatible with the Witness pane, but silently fails for some reason (btw "silently fails" is Concentrated Evil).
Is there some way to determine why it is failing and fix the problem?
thanks!

I have uninstalled it and, of course, the System Preferences loads. Did it twice to make sure. You can also take a shortcut to de-register the Witness pane and, again, System Preferences loads.
Also tried setting the System Preferences app to 32-bit using Get Info.. that does not work, but I don't see any visual indication that the System Preferences app is actually running in 32-bit mode. Is there some way of telling? If System Preferences cannot run in 32-bit mode then it's probably an OS issue. If it can, and the Witness pane still is not loading, then it seems likely to be app-specific.

Why is the message 'Plugin container for Firefox has failed' while using ArcadeOX appearing even after un/reinstalling it all?

I am attempting to play online games using the 'ArcadeOX' plugin.
The game will not load and a window pops up with the message 'Plugin container for Firefox has failed'.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled both ArcadeOX and Firefox several times and still have the same problem.
Windows 'attempts' to find a solution online but still nothing.

I am attempting to play online games using the 'ArcadeOX' plugin.
The game will not load and a window pops up with the message 'Plugin container for Firefox has failed'.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled both ArcadeOX and Firefox several times and still have the same problem.
Windows 'attempts' to find a solution online but still nothing.

Firefox 15.0.1 firefox -silent -setDefaultBrowser not working

I installed Firefox 15.0.1 in a machine which already had Firefox set as default browser.
After the upgrade it's no longer the default browser.
I tried the firefox -silent -setDefaultBrowser command (because I need a script to set it without user intervention) but it doesn't work.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Mauricio

You could try setting that from another browser.

Inverse relationships silently failing with dual queries

Now this is a really weird one. (2.2.3, 1.3.1_03, w2k)
I have some test code to do simple queries
public Project findProjectByName(String name) {
return (Project) findByName(Project.class, name);
public User findUserByName(String name) {
return (User) findByName(User.class, name);
private Object findByName(Class clazz, String name) {
Extent extent = pm.getExtent(clazz, true);
Query query = pm.newQuery(clazz, extent, "this.name == name");
query.declareParameters("String name");
Collection results = (Collection) query.execute(name);
if (results.size() != 1) {
throw new IllegalStateException("wrong result count " +
results.size() + " of " + clazz.getName() + ": " +
name);
Object result = results.iterator().next();
query.closeAll();
return result;
and some relationships defined
which has relationships defined as
<class name="Permission"/>
<class name="Project" requires-extent="true">
<field name="permissions">
<collection element-type="Permission"/>
<extension vendor-name="kodo" key="inverse"
value="project"/>
</field>
</class>
<class name="User" requires-extent="true">
<field name="permissions">
<collection element-type="Permission"/>
<extension vendor-name="kodo" key="inverse" value="user"/>
</field>
</class>
and some code which uses it.
Project itpap = findProjectByName("itpap");
User geoff = findUserByName("geoff");
System.out.println("itpap: permissions" + itpap.getPermissions());
System.out.println("geoff: permissions" + geoff.getPermissions());
Problem is, it prints out:
itpap: permissions[com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@6c6696,
com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@431340]
geoff: permissions[]
That is, the inverse relationship for the User object seems to be silently
failing.
So I tried reversing the order of the find methods, like so:
User geoff = mm.findUserByName("geoff");
Project itpap = mm.findProjectByName("itpap");
System.out.println("itpap: permissions" + itpap.getPermissions());
System.out.println("geoff: permissions" + geoff.getPermissions());
Same problem.
Then, I tried modifying it to:
Project itpap = findProjectByName("itpap");
System.out.println("itpap: permissions" + itpap.getPermissions());
User geoff = findUserByName("geoff");
System.out.println("geoff: permissions" + geoff.getPermissions());
And now it works fine, I get
itpap: permissions[com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@4247a0,
com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@6c6696]
geoff: permissions[com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@2bb7e0,
com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@6c6696]
How weird is that? It seems like the syptoms would be best descibed by "if
you query for two objects separately, then navigating to a related object
from one of the queried objects breaks any subsequent attempted navigation
to a related objects for the other".
Cheers
Geoff

Hi Geoff,
Check out my posts on "2.2.3GA Transparent Navigation of two-way one-to-one relationship failing"
(March 9th and following.) Sounds like we may be looking at the same bug. I don't know if this has
been fixed in 2.2.4.
David
Geoff Soutter wrote:
>
Now this is a really weird one. (2.2.3, 1.3.1_03, w2k)
I have some test code to do simple queries
public Project findProjectByName(String name) {
return (Project) findByName(Project.class, name);
public User findUserByName(String name) {
return (User) findByName(User.class, name);
private Object findByName(Class clazz, String name) {
Extent extent = pm.getExtent(clazz, true);
Query query = pm.newQuery(clazz, extent, "this.name == name");
query.declareParameters("String name");
Collection results = (Collection) query.execute(name);
if (results.size() != 1) {
throw new IllegalStateException("wrong result count " +
results.size() + " of " + clazz.getName() + ": " +
name);
Object result = results.iterator().next();
query.closeAll();
return result;
and some relationships defined
which has relationships defined as
<class name="Permission"/>
<class name="Project" requires-extent="true">
<field name="permissions">
<collection element-type="Permission"/>
<extension vendor-name="kodo" key="inverse"
value="project"/>
</field>
</class>
<class name="User" requires-extent="true">
<field name="permissions">
<collection element-type="Permission"/>
<extension vendor-name="kodo" key="inverse" value="user"/>
</field>
</class>
and some code which uses it.
Project itpap = findProjectByName("itpap");
User geoff = findUserByName("geoff");
System.out.println("itpap: permissions" + itpap.getPermissions());
System.out.println("geoff: permissions" + geoff.getPermissions());
Problem is, it prints out:
itpap: permissions[com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@6c6696,
com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@431340]
geoff: permissions[]
That is, the inverse relationship for the User object seems to be silently
failing.
So I tried reversing the order of the find methods, like so:
User geoff = mm.findUserByName("geoff");
Project itpap = mm.findProjectByName("itpap");
System.out.println("itpap: permissions" + itpap.getPermissions());
System.out.println("geoff: permissions" + geoff.getPermissions());
Same problem.
Then, I tried modifying it to:
Project itpap = findProjectByName("itpap");
System.out.println("itpap: permissions" + itpap.getPermissions());
User geoff = findUserByName("geoff");
System.out.println("geoff: permissions" + geoff.getPermissions());
And now it works fine, I get
itpap: permissions[com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@4247a0,
com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@6c6696]
geoff: permissions[com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@2bb7e0,
com.cisco.apit.itpap.model.Permission@6c6696]
How weird is that? It seems like the syptoms would be best descibed by "if
you query for two objects separately, then navigating to a related object
from one of the queried objects breaks any subsequent attempted navigation
to a related objects for the other".
Cheers
Geoff

Silently failing to update applications

Hi Everyone,
I have upgraded my iPhone 4s to ios 6 (6.0.1 to be precise) a few weeks back and forgot my itunes account password. So, I created a new account, and every since I did this, some of my apps are silently failing to update.
Basically, when there is an update for some apps, I see the number notification on my "App Store" app. I open this, and go to UPDATES tab and see that I have some apps that need to be updated. I click on the UPDATE ALL button, and it opens the login popup, I enter my login information and it updates some of the apps, but get stuck on others (always same apps).
After this point, every time I hit UPDATE ALL, it opens the login popup, then says INSTALLING next to each of these stuck apps, then 1-2 seconds later those buttons turn to UPDATE again. And, I am not getting any error or anything like that, nothing other than those button changing to UPDATE.
Just to give an example, Facebook app got updated fine, but Linkedin, Foursquare and Skype are not updated and they are stuck for some weird reason? If I delete these stuck apps and re-install, they install fine? Right now, I have 5 apps that are waiting to be updated...
I tried restarting the iphone, logging out and then logging in, etc. But nothing helped!
This is driving me crazy, and any help / suggestion would be appreciated!
Thanks

It's simple. When you download an app it's assigned to the Apple ID used to dowload it. This cannot be changed. When the apps need to be updated you need to used that Apple ID and Password to update them. Your new Apple ID is what is causing your issue. Delete the apps and re-download them with your current Apple ID. I think you said that is somewhere in your post so you already knew the answer, anyway.
Hope that helps

Firefox 4 fails on autoupdate at gov rdr weather page

MAJOR. Firefox 4 fails on autoupdate at gov rdr weather page--
It is fine at initial load, but when it updates (adding another image at the end of the loop), it stops after going part way through the reload. Uses java. The previous images still play underneath. Worked in FF3.
Repeatable.

I filed a bug report at Bugzilla at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ . The bug number is 667399. It turns out that this bug was reported earlier in June of 2010 as 572801. Then Firefox 4 would have been in use. My report shows the same bug also is active in Firefox 5. Several confirmed the original bug and suggested why it happened. However apparently nothing was done during the Firefox 4 era. Could it be that difficult to correct the problem? Several other current browsers, even including IE9, do not have this problem. Someone needs to twist the tail of that Firefox to get it to correct the bug :-). Or perhaps Firefox 6 should be a special update just to correct unresolved bugs.

Boot Camp 3.1 update silently fails

Ever since the Boot Camp 3.1 update was released, I've been trying to install it Every time, it silently fails, whether I'm using Software Update, or downloading and installing the package manually from Apple.com. I'm running Boot Camp 3.0 and it's fine, but it puzzles me why I can't get it updated to 3.1.
Has anyone run into this issue?

I was having this problem as well - the installer would pause then crash ("aka The Program Needs to Close") every time I tried. In the general category of "Suspect anything not from Apple", I unplugged everything FireWire/USB and uninstalled the driver for my DisplayLink external graphics adapter.
The bootcamp 3.1 update then installed just fine. (And the DisplayLink driver reinstalled just fine.)
I expect that Apple hasn't tested their installer with a wide range of third-party drivers and hardware. Get rid of any hardware or drivers you can that are not bog-standard Apple or Microsoft and see what happens.

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