firefox4 not starting

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 25 March 2011 17:12, Frank Shute <frank at shute.org.uk> wrote:
> I upgraded from firefox3.6 to firefox4.0 and now it won't start even
> after doing a: rm -rf ~/.mozilla (I saved my profile).
>
> I set -x on the firefox shell script and this is the output:
>
> $ firefox
> + moz_libdir=/usr/local/lib/firefox
> + found=0
> + progname=/usr/local/bin/firefox
> + dirname /usr/local/bin/firefox
> + curdir=/usr/local/bin
> + basename /usr/local/bin/firefox
> + progbase=firefox
> + run_moz=/usr/local/bin/run-mozilla.sh
> + test -x /usr/local/bin/run-mozilla.sh
> + /bin/pwd
> + here=/usr/home/frank
> + [ -h /usr/local/bin/firefox ]
> + cd /usr/home/frank
> + [ 0 = 0 ]
> + [ -x /usr/local/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh ]
> + dist_bin=/usr/local/lib/firefox
> + run_moz=/usr/local/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh
> + script_args=''
> + debugging=0
> + MOZILLA_BIN=firefox-bin
> + [ '' = beos ]
> + pass_arg_count=0
> + [ 0 -gt 0 ]
> + [ 0 = 1 ]
> + exec /usr/local/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
>
> That all looks kosher to me. Anybody run into the same problem and
> fixed it?
>

Works fine here.  The only difference I see is here:

+ MOZILLA_BIN=firefox-bin
+ [ FreeBSD = beos ]
+ pass_arg_count=0

Hrm, so would $OSTYPE being wrong/clobbered/missing
prevent startup?

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