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Firefox not starting after 3.6.6 upgrade ubuntu 10.04

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These are the last few entries in the firefox strace log. Firefox never opens it just hangs like this every time. I have uninstalled and reinstalled. I have tried firefox -p for new profile still the same.

strace firefox

wait4(-1, [ ], 0, NULL) = 16909

SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---

pipe([3, 4]) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7759a48) = 16910 close(4) = 0 read(3, "firefox\n", 128) = 8 read(3, "", 128) = 0 close(3) = 0 wait4(-1, [ ], 0, NULL) = 16910

SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---

stat64("/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.6/run-mozilla.sh", ) = 0 geteuid32() = 1000 getgid32() = 1000 getegid32() = 1000 getgroups32(0, NULL) = 12 getgroups32(12, [4, 6, 20, 24, 46, 104, 106, 112, 121, 122, 124, 1000]) = 12 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7759a48) = 16911 wait4(-1,


This happened

Every time Firefox opened

upgrade to 3.6.6

User Agent

Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00

These are the last few entries in the firefox strace log. Firefox never opens it just hangs like this every time. I have uninstalled and reinstalled. I have tried firefox -p for new profile still the same. strace firefox wait4(-1, [ ], 0, NULL) = 16909 ---- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- pipe([3, 4]) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7759a48) = 16910 close(4) = 0 read(3, "firefox\n", 128) = 8 read(3, "", 128) = 0 close(3) = 0 wait4(-1, [ ], 0, NULL) = 16910 ---- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- stat64("/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.6/run-mozilla.sh", ) = 0 geteuid32() = 1000 getgid32() = 1000 getegid32() = 1000 getgroups32(0, NULL) = 12 getgroups32(12, [4, 6, 20, 24, 46, 104, 106, 112, 121, 122, 124, 1000]) = 12 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7759a48) = 16911 wait4(-1, == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == upgrade to 3.6.6 == == User Agent == Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00