centos 5.2, firefox wont start.

[Layla Nahar]

Hello

I did the perfect server tutorial for Centos 5.2 (http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-5.2). I was able to start firefox and open web pages from the Internet.

I made some changes*, and now when I try to start firefox, it fails to start. "Starting web browser" appears briefly in the taskbar but then it goes away. No error message displays.

I was hoping someone can offer me suggestion on how to diagnose and repair this. I can ping google.com from this machine

thank you very much
LN

*(I did ch 7 & ch 9 from this tutorial http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se....2-ispconfig-3)

[falko]

So you have a desktop on your CentOS server?
Any errors in your logs?

[Layla Nahar]

Originally Posted by falko

So you have a desktop on your CentOS server?
Any errors in your logs?

Hello Falko -

thank you for your reply, and your suggestion to check my logs for errors. (yes, I have a desktop on my CentOS server).

I tried to find log files by grepping in different directories for mozilla and firefox. I see a lot of install and configuration stuff. I only see the word error once /root/*.log* (It says: Installing libgpg-error-1.4-2.i386)

I would be really grateful if you could give me some guidance about where to look for the right logs.

thank you

LN

[falko]

Maybe there was a faulty Firefox update? Can you try

yum update

again?

[Layla Nahar]

Hello Falko

Thank you very much for helping me out with this. When I did

yum update

I got an error. Below is what I saw. Is this significant?

thanks again
LN


[root@server1 ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* addons: centos.corenetworks.net
* base: mirror.ubiquityservers.com
* extras: mirror.team-cymru.org
* rpmforge: apt.sw.be
* updates: mirror.vcu.edu
Setting up Update Process
Error: Package tuple ('perl-Socket6', 'i386', '0', '0.23', '1.rh9.rf') could not be found in packagesack
[root@server1 ~]#