575803 - Firefox fails to start after upgrade to 3.6.6

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Björn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

FF fails to start after upgrade to 3.6.6. The process starts but immediately goes to sleep and becomes unresponsive. No luck with safe-mode and default theme/disabled plug inns either, nor with a fresh .mozilla folder. Only chance to get FF started is to downgrade to an earlier version.     

Reproducible: Always




System is Slackware 12.2 on a Pentium4.

Comment 1

[Ville Svärd]

I seem to have the very same problem.
No matter if I runa a firefox installed using ubuntu package managers or run it directly from an expanded tar downloaded from mozilla.org; I get the same result with an unresponsive process.

Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Core 2 Duo

Comment 2

[Ville Svärd]

Firefox 3.5.10 (tar download) works flawlessly on the same machine.

Comment 3

[Bengt Grahn]

The same happened to me. However, there is a file called secmod.db located at ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default. It appears that Firefox starts normally if that file is missing. Running Mint 9 on my PC.

Comment 4

[Ville Svärd]

Yep, removing secmod.db seems to solve the problem for me.
Excellent!

Comment 5

[Björn]

I can confirm! removing secmod.db solves the problem for me as well. Strange, I believe I did move the old .mozilla to start with a fresh one as a first test. Must somehow have missed to move it out of the way.

Comment 6

[Björn]

Well,

removing secmod.db messed up some things e.g. smart card reader functionality. When trying to reinstall the PKCS #11 module Firefox hangs again. Did the 3.6.8 build change the the API? or is it a bug???

Needs to be resolved promptly as this has a great impact on many people.

Comment 7

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

cant reproduce on latest build