firefox stopped working!!

[jnev]

i was just browsing around, and when i tried to download a picture, i clicked save, and firefox shut down. it wasn't the first time it's happpened, so i wasn't worried. usually i just have to open it again and i can download the picture or whatever it was that caused firefox to crash. this time, i couldn't open it. i restarted X, i even restarted kubuntu, to no avail. firefox won't load anymore. what happened? i didn't change any of the settings or anything. i hate being in windows. help!!

thanks

[Game master pro]

Have you tried re installing firefox or getting the latest version?

[jnev]

i did, but it told me that it couldn't find the server to download from (or something of the sort). my internet connection is not down...

[jnev]

please help!! i'm posting this from konqueor, not very fun. this is my output when i try to apt-get install firefox:

jnev@jnevlinux:~$ sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
mozilla-firefox-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts xprt-xprintorg
The following packages will be upgraded:
mozilla-firefox
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8802kB of archives.
After unpacking 24.6MB of additional disk space will be used.

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 72300 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mozilla-firefox 1.0.6-1ubuntu1~5.04ubp1 (using .../mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mozilla-firefox ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic', which is also in package firefox
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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when i try to apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade, it says that firefox is the only package in need of an upgrade, and i get the same exact error as above.

[junkman4547]

I have problem installing the latest firefox with Etch also. So I resign myself to using Sarge version....

Maybe you could delete and reinstall your current firefox ?

[jnev]

read my last post, i can't reinstall.

i'm not using debian, it's kubuntu. read the post before you respond.

[jnev]

can anybody help me??? this problem is driving me crazy...

[burnit]

apt-get --force-overwrite install mozilla-firefox

This should be your solution...

If you have further problem you can try this:

apt-get --force-all install mozilla-firefox

Check also the apt-get man page, wih lists all --force-* parameters...

These options are used when a package cannot be installed because it cannot overwrite other files, some actions fails and the apt-get refuse to install the package...

[burnit]

ops, I've notice you are upgrading your installation...

to reinstall you can use:

apt-get --reinstall install mozilla-firefox

This *really* reinstall you software...

[burnit]

Third sequential post... Last night was too hard for me...

Don't you have tried to remove (or renaming, maybe it's better) you firefox home files?

they are situated in ~/.mozulla directory...

Maybe the problem is you firefox...

Then, avoiding a fourth sequential post... try to run firefox from console... maybe it can print some usefull message, wich will help you to debug the problem...

Anyway you can run these commands, but you need to know some programming basics...

strace mozilla-firefox

ltrace mozilla-firefox

you can see any systema call used by the program... maybe it will stops on a connect, or fails because it try to execute a read on some files...

Reinstalling is not usefull, try to figure out the cause of the problem..