After upgrade opensuse from 11.2 to 11.3 a cannot use firefox. I start firefox form shell and nothing. When I use strace then firefox stop on "waitpid(-1, ". Firefox work well only when i login as a root. I removed java sun plugin and started firefox in save-mode and check to disable all extensions etc and nothing to do. Any suggestion?
I don’t have much to add, other than that I’m seeing the same behavior. I believe the “waitpid(-1,” is waiting on the process that the firefox.sh script launches, which is actually /usr/lib/firefox/firefox. When I strace that process by itself, I get a little more info:
strace /usr/lib/firefox/firefox:
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb3c00000
_llseek(40, 0, 0xbfb1da00, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
fcntl64(43, F_GETFL) = 0x1 (flags O_WRONLY)
fstat64(43, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, …}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb1503000
_llseek(43, 0, 0xbfb1da00, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
read(40, "/system/proxy/mode none
", 4096) = 24
read(40, “/system/http_proxy/use_authentic”…, 4096) = 44
read(40, “/system/http_proxy/authenticatio”…, 4096) = 44
read(40, “/system/http_proxy/authenticatio”…, 4096) = 40
read(40, "/system/proxy/autoconfig_url
", 4096) = 30
read(40, "/system/http_proxy/ignore_hosts "…, 4096) = 69
read(40, "/system/http_proxy/port 8118
", 4096) = 29
read(40, "/system/proxy/ftp_host
", 4096) = 24
read(40, "/system/proxy/ftp_port 0
", 4096) = 25
read(40, "/system/proxy/secure_host
", 4096) = 27
read(40, "/system/proxy/secure_port 0
", 4096) = 28
read(40, "/system/proxy/socks_host
", 4096) = 26
read(40, "/system/proxy/socks_port 8080
", 4096) = 30
read(40, “/system/http_proxy/use_same_prox”…, 4096) = 39
read(40,
Still looking…
FIXED:
I removed the package libproxy1-config-gnome as root (“rpm -e libproxy1-config-gnome”), and firefox now launches.
Obviously this is a short term workaround, but hopefully it helps.
Justin
I compiled the latest libproxy1-config-gnome from source and the problem doesn’t seem to exist in the latest svn version.
Having a similar issue since my in-place upgrade from 11.2 to 11.3 on Wednesday. I don’t have a libproxy1-config-gnome package, probably because I installed only KDE. Upgrading to Firefox 3.6.8 did not fix the issue, but I’ve noticed that if I pull up KRunner and run “firefox -safe-mode” it comes right up; I can then close Firefox and it will open again normally as long as I do it soon after. If I close the browser for more than a few seconds, though, then I’m back to square one.
<MR>
I’m facing this issue as well, when I’m trying to connect to my high speed Internet modem via wvdial.Konqueror works but firefox doesn’t seem to pick up the proxy settings.