firefox doesn't show up
Trey Sizemore
trey at fastmail.fm
Tue May 3 09:56:11 PDT 2005
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:53:29 -0400
jason henson <jason at ec.rr.com> wrote:
> Trey Sizemore wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:40:43 -0800
> >Ben Munat <bent at munat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Did you try running it from the command line? That way you can see
> >>if it prints errors when it fails.
> >>
> >>b
> >>
> >>
> >
> >My Firefox will no longer work as a normal user (no page loads and
> >buttons are unresponsive), although it does as root. Starting from
> >the command line produces the following output (both as root and my
> >normal user account):
> >
> >trey at salamander~> firefox
> >LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/compat/linux/
> >usr/ local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so [Shared
> >object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "nppdf.so"] *** Failed to
> >load overlay chrome://useragentswitcher/content/menu.xul
> >
> >Any ideas on how to fix this?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Looks like your adobe plugin is a linux port. You need
> emulators/linux_base-8. But you shouldn't unless you have a linux
> binary. I didn't see a adobe plugin in the ports system so I am
> guessing this is where you went wrong. Did you tell firefox to
> install a linux or unix plugin for pdfs or acrobat reader? Remove
> the adobe plugin and see if firefox works right. Also did you
> install the native firefox from ports?
How do I remove the offending plugin? I've tried to remove and
reinstall Firefox 1.0.3, but the same behavior occurs. The root user
can open and use firefox, but my normal account cannot.
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Cheers,
Trey
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