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| Author: | tophee [ Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Firefox 3 not behaving. |
Hi guys, I've just upgraded to 5.5 and I really like it. Congratulations on a successful build and such a great release. I've a couple of minor issues, but the first is firefox has me stumped. From a consol I installed firefox 3.0 as a superuser. As a su I can run firefox no problem. As a regular user I can type /myth/firefox/firefox into the consol and it works. However trying to launch firefox from within myth no dice. I've changed the path to /myth/firefox/firefox on the setup page appears to do nothing. Any thoughts? Regards Chris |
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| Author: | elgordo123 [ Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:20 pm ] |
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Not quite sure exactly what you are trying to do, but I added Firefox to the menu. I put it in the Information Center just under "Web". -As root edit the file /usr/share/mythtv/info_menu.xml (using nano or vi). -About line 150, (just before <button> on Recipe part and after </button> on Web part) add this: <button> <type>WEBPAGE</type> <text>Firefox</text> <action>EXEC /myth/firefox/firefox</action> </button> Save it and it should show up and launch now. If you are on the Info Center menu you will need to go back to Main menu and go into Info Center again. |
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| Author: | tjc [ Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:28 pm ] |
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I suspect he did some kind of odd manual install (the location he mentions certainly isn't conventional) and it's looking for components that it can't find. tophee - Did you try using apt-get to install firefox? |
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| Author: | tophee [ Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:25 pm ] |
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Hi guys, Thanks for replying. I don't think I've done anything odd to install firefox. I followed the instructions on the wiki but changed the wget code to be for firefox-3.0 or so I thought! Having had a look at your comments tjc, perhaps I was not as accurate as I thought. I'm removing all evidence of the install and trying again. It looks like I'm was not being as thorough as I perhaps should be. It's been a long week. I'll try again and let you know. |
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| Author: | tophee [ Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:41 pm ] |
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Right I tried again: I followed the instructions on the wiki exactly, with three exceptions, two are very minor and the other shouldn't make any difference. However, for completeness, I shall post them here. Quote: Install Firefox 1. Open a terminal (Alt-X) (you can exit mythfrontend first, but dont have to) 2. Change to the /myth dir by typing cd /myth 3. Change to root by typing su and entering password. 4. Use wget to download the tarball, (Put all of this on one line) wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla ... .0.tar.bz2 5. Untar the file. This creates a new folder called firefox that has the executable. tar -jxvf firefox-3.0.tar.bz2 As you can see, I changed the downloaded file to the UK specific version and to version 3. I also had to download the .bz2 version as a .gz version was not available. Otherwise everything is exactly the same. As far as I can see. I believe the switches I used for untaring are good. I followed steps Quote: 6. Type exit to get out of root, then type exit again to close the terminal.
7. In mythfrontend, Util/Settings, Setup, Info Center, Web Settings, change browser to /myth/firefox/firefox and Finish. 8. Go back to Mythbrowser, select a URL and it should work. Except it doesn't, though will from a terminal window. Thanks again. |
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| Author: | elgordo123 [ Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:46 pm ] |
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One other thing, I can't remember if I had to do it.. try this. Code: (as root)
cd /myth/firefox chmod a+x firefox This will give everyone permission to run /myth/firefox/firefox program |
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| Author: | tophee [ Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:25 am ] |
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Elgordo, - will do the chmod thing, (tho not had to do it in the past). Hopefully that'll sort it. Thanks |
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| Author: | tophee [ Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:00 am ] |
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Unfortunately chmod a+x did nothing. A bit stuck. I am wondering if a clean install would benefit the system. I've a new 1T drive arriving tomorrow. I'll keep poking the system here and if anything turns up I'll post. Still, I can't help thinking it's really strange, in a terminal I can start Firefox, but not from the /Information/web page. And thinking about it the previous version didn't survive the upgrade. Which is why I upgraded Firefox in the first place. |
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| Author: | tophee [ Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:24 am ] |
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On exiting firefox (which I had started in a consol [alt-X]) I saw these errors. I suppost they may shed some light? Code: (firefox-bin:3694): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_display: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
(firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed (firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (firefox-bin:3694): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_display: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed (firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (firefox-bin:3694): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_display: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed (firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_data: assertion `G(firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (firefox-bin:3694): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_display: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed (firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.16.3/gobject/gsignal.c:2180: invalid unclassed object pointer for value type `GdkScreen' (firefox-bin:3694): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_display: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed (firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.16.3/gobject/gsignal.c:2180: invalid unclassed object pointer for value type `GdkScreen' (firefox-bin:3694): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed _IS_OBJECT (object)' failed Any thoughts? |
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