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Firefox no longer starts on Xubuntu

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This is a question I am migrating from LQ - the original question (with a bunch of details) is here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/firefox-won%27t-start-on-xubuntu-4175691712/

The issue is that Firefox will not start on my Ubuntu 20.04. This started randomly a few weeks ago - it might be related to an update, but I did not noticed anything specific. Here's the error messages: 

$ firefox -safe-mode
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 3792
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...

As detailed in that post, I have tried many variations of reinstalling, scrubbing my system, making sure I am updated, and looking at the systemd logs.

Since then, I have also tried to run firefox with gdb, and I get a seg fault: 

 $ firefox -g
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 9.2-0ubuntu1~20.04) 9.2
....
[New Thread 0x7fffe52e3700 (LWP 3166)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe52a2700 (LWP 3167)]
--Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--

Thread 1 "firefox" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff2719c5b in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so

I have found some suggestions that errors relating to libxul may be memory related, but I passed a memtest86 this morning, so back to zero. Anyone here have any thoughts?

This is a question I am migrating from LQ - the original question (with a bunch of details) is here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/firefox-won%27t-start-on-xubuntu-4175691712/ The issue is that Firefox will not start on my Ubuntu 20.04. This started randomly a few weeks ago - it might be related to an update, but I did not noticed anything specific. Here's the error messages: $ firefox -safe-mode ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 3792 ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal... As detailed in that post, I have tried many variations of reinstalling, scrubbing my system, making sure I am updated, and looking at the systemd logs. Since then, I have also tried to run firefox with gdb, and I get a seg fault: $ firefox -g GNU gdb (Ubuntu 9.2-0ubuntu1~20.04) 9.2 .... [New Thread 0x7fffe52e3700 (LWP 3166)] [New Thread 0x7fffe52a2700 (LWP 3167)] --Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging-- Thread 1 "firefox" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff2719c5b in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so I have found some suggestions that errors relating to libxul may be memory related, but I passed a memtest86 this morning, so back to zero. Anyone here have any thoughts?

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Is this a version 86.0.1? If not, it can be bug 1694670.

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TyDraniu
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Is this a version 86.0.1? If not, it can be bug 1694670.

cduston
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TyDraniu said
Is this a version 86.0.1? If not, it can be bug 1694670.

I suppose you are right - I fixed it by downloading the most recent version from the web site rather then from the apt repos. Does that mean it's still broken in the repos? Not your problem, but still not great!