[arch-general] Issues with Firefox 6 not starting after update

[Auguste Pop]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Samuel Baldwin
<recursive.forest at gmail.com> wrote:
> The topic says it all. I recently pacman -Syu'd and firefox has
> refused to start after this. I've tried rolling back to firefox 4 (and
> xulrunner 2) but I just get an error about XPCOM not loading.
>
> Trying to start firefox 6 just yields hanging. I've tried running
> firefox with LD_DEBUG=all and I've uploaded it here:
> http://lusitania.logik.li/files/firefox.log . Any help would be
> appreciated. Pointers about how successfully rollback to firefox 4 are
> also an acceptable substitute.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
>

do you aware that the log file is about 36M?

$ curl -IL http://lusitania.logik.li/files/firefox.log
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "4135181073"
Last-Modified: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:13:51 GMT
Content-Length: 37618121
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:20:16 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.26