2009-02-22 update :-(

I run Granular1 everyday. Today's bigger-than-usual update (2** or so files) resulted in Firefox not working. It starts and ends within seconds. Removed and reinstalled. Nothing. Restarted the pc and removed and reinstalled. Nothing. I'm running FF306 that I downloaded and installed manually in my personal map, and made a start button, and it works. Fortunately. I just wanted to report.

Check this out for the potential solution:
http://www.granularlinux.com/forum/index.php?topic=1292.msg9645#msg9645

Also, recently there has been a full-fledged discussion on this topic:
http://www.granularlinux.com/forum/index.php?topic=1264.0

I run Granular1 everyday. Today's bigger-than-usual update (2** or so files) resulted in Firefox not working. It starts and ends within seconds. Removed and reinstalled. Nothing. Restarted the pc and removed and reinstalled. Nothing. I'm running FF306 that I downloaded and installed manually in my personal map, and made a start button, and it works. Fortunately. I just wanted to report.

So you are saying that you downloaded and installed Firefox ver 3.0.6 manually and manually installed it and it is working?

Can you do us a favor and open synaptic, do a search for xulrunner and tell us what version you are running there.

Thanks
Rich

Yes please let us know what version you have running.

First, PCLOS has in my eyes, opinion and experience, quite well screwed up. I think I test quite a lot, and what is happening in this part of Linuxstan is troubling me, and when I thought Granular would escape the troubles, I was wrong.
Why do I write this: it explains why I was doing and testing other things, and not giving attention to this pc or forum, this pc is my more stable one, and I switched back to WinXP for all sakes!

So today I updated Granular again. Before the update FF307 worked fine, after that no such thing. Itīs seems to be removed, and when I try to reinstall it, I am warned that I need xulrunner 1906, while the update installed 1907.

So I tried it again: I still had FF306 in my own folder, and it runs fine. But boy, do I feel cheated by tex!

ps
little detail: the Granular icon left under is gone, as it is while booting: it is all PCLOS again.

Soon I think it will be PCLOST on this pc...

Meanwhile, good news too: somewhere on this forum you thaught us how to force a package, so thatś waht I did. I first tried the recent one you put there, but that didn work, and then I forced the xulrunner 1906. Whoeps, FF307 installed and is working now. It does not show up in the "PC" menu under Internet, but it is there in usr/bin.

I think you have the "testing" section of the PCLOS repo enabled. That's where xulrunner-1.9.0.7 is. And that's the cause of problem. You should always rely more on packages in the stable sections.

But nice to know that Firefox 3.0.7 is working for you again.

Dear admin
until today I used what Granular offered me, no less, no more. No testing repo's, I've checked that. From today yes, I added the repo that is recommended and I added tested.
The 1907 was there from the last time already, I don't know how or why, but not because I tampered with the repo's!

Funny today: Now the booting up is started with the Mandrive Logo, I log in with the Granular Logo, and the Start Button is PCLOS. A Mandrake-multicultural thing, I must say ;-)

I started installing Granular on pc's of friends that I try to help with their WinXP pc, I try to get them acquainted with Linux, so please, K.I.S.S.S, because my friends will not and never be pleased with the actual disorder in PCLOStan; they will tell me that I was wrong and so on and so on, and what can I say: a simple upgrade or so goes wrong?

capricornus,

I'm not sure I understand, is there an actual question there? Cause it does not make sense, unless it's just a statement. I do think I understand that you had problems after an update.

Also it sounds to me like you did all of the updates available, which would mean you did a bunch of pclos updates, correct?