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Firefox not opening after update.

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Eino
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Firefox not opening after update.

#1 Post by Eino »

After the update from MX linux firefox is not opening, When I try opening it from the terminal I get a file format error.
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Adrian
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Re: Firefox not opening after update.

#2 Post by Adrian »

First thing I do to troubleshoot this kind of things is to move away the ~/.mozilla folder, rename it to something else and try again.

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Eino
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Re: Firefox not opening after update.

#3 Post by Eino »

Adrian wrote:First thing I do to troubleshoot this kind of things is to move away the ~/.mozilla folder, rename it to something else and try again.
I renamed the folder, and I'm still getting the same error.

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eino@mx1:~
$ firefox
bash: /usr/bin/firefox: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
eino@mx1:~
$ 
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plzd
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Re: Firefox not opening after update.

#4 Post by plzd »

This just happen on my other machine this morning (MX16 32bit).

I uninstalled firefox and reinstalled it, AND I renamed .mozilla file -- still can't get it to work -- had to use palemoon.
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Adrian
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Re: Firefox not opening after update.

#5 Post by Adrian »

Sounds like you installed the package for the wrong architecture (not sure how), can you please run:

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file /opt/firefox/firefox

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uname -a

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kmathern
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Re: Firefox not opening after update.

#6 Post by kmathern »

I just checked, the 32bit firefox package, 52.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx15+1 version, has the 64bit executable in it instead of the 32bit.

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kent@mx1:~/firefox_52.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx15+1_i386/opt/firefox
$ file firefox
firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=6315677124cf311616b98bea20cf063af2acca4f, stripped

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Re: Firefox not opening after update.

#7 Post by plzd »

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$ file /opt/firefox/firefox
/opt/firefox/firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=6315677124cf311616b98bea20cf063af2acca4f, stripped

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Linux mx1 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 (2017-03-07) i686 GNU/Linux
...so then it's a 64bit package packaged for 32bit distro???
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Stevo
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Re: Firefox not opening after update.

#8 Post by Stevo »

Yes, there's some kind of screwup with it, probably my fault. :bagoverhead: Hang on a couple minutes and I'll have a fixed 32-bit deb for download and then push the correct builds to the repo.

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Re: Firefox not opening after update.

#9 Post by MelDawson »

Thank you Stevo.
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Stevo
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Re: Firefox not opening after update.

#10 Post by Stevo »

Here's the link to the 32-bit deb. It can also be safely installed in M12 or MX 14. This one requires pulseaudio, or apulse from the test repo be installed: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxE7w ... 3QzdG5tSjA

MX has pulseaudio installed by default, MEPIS 12 does not. Some people don't like it, so apulse now gives us a choice.

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