Firefox will not start after javaplugin install failed.

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:44:28 +0200 (CEST)
Andreas Davour <ante at Update.UU.SE> wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> I stumbled upon a page that complained that I had to install a java
> plugin to view the page. I do have a java jvm installed but din't think
> and clicked the webpage and told it to install that Linux plugin, since
> it would probably work better than the Windows one anyway.
> 
> Now, afterwards Firefox just wont start!
> 
> It says:
> bash-2.05b$ firefox
> firefox-bin: Fatal IO error 78 (Function not implemented) on X server
> :0.0.
> bash-2.05b$
> 
> Anyone know what that means? Is there one smart way I can fix what the
> install have destroyed? I did a 'make deinstall; make reinstall' but it
> didn't help.

heya andreas,

my guess would be that your java install added a few files that are not
recognized by the port 'deinstall' mechanism (because they're not listed in
the firefox port), so it leaves them and the directories intact.  so, when
you reinstall, these files are still kicking around.

you're probably going to want to deinstall firefox and watch for messages
which complain about not being able to remove directories.  look for these
and any other firefox folders which still have content, then manually
delete them.   (probably somewhere under/usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/...)

"locate firefox | more" might be helpful.

you might also want to copy your ~/.firefox directory to ~/.firefox.old,
reinstall, launch, close, then manually move any settings you want to
keep back into the newly created ~/.firefox directory.


good luck,
epi


> 
> /andreas
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