[ale] Dell Mini 12 Ubuntu problems

[James Sumners]

>From a virtual terminal (e.g. xterm) run `strace firefox
2>/tmp/ff.log`. Firefox is going to start very slowly, and that log
file will be quite large. However, it will provide hints as to what is
going wrong. If you want to gzip the log file and put it up on
http://drop.io/ or something then we can take a look at it.

You might also just try running `firefox -safe-mode` to see if that will load.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Ken Cochran <kwc at theworld.com> wrote:
> Hey folks, I have a misbehaving Dell Mini 12.
> It runs Ubuntu, I think 8.0.4 (can't tell where to find the
> version) with uname -a reporting kernel 2.6.24-19.
>
> Trying to start the web browser (firefox?), it appears to load
> (on the taskbar) but it shuts down & never displays anything.
> I get the same thing when trying to access any system help.
> The OS appears to be up to date when checking & fetching the
> package info.  If I try running firefox from a terminal window I
> get a message about incompatible GRE.  I'm not finding anything
> unusual/useful in /var/log/syslog or Xorg.0.log.
>
> Where can I find some troubleshooting hints/FAQs for this setup?
> So far, the only thing I can make work is terminal.
> Would also like to make sure such things as Java and Adobe
> bits are up to date too.
>
> -kc


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