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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Firefox: firefox dies quietly. How to debug?
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:26:45 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> The intention is to autologin a user and start via xinit a X11 session with
> Firefox. So far. Autologin works, I can start the X11/wmaker session and also
> open xterm, xpdf as clients. But I can not start firefox or libreoffice - they
> die quietly. 
> 
> I do not see anything in the X11 logs nor do I see logs on the console telling
> me something irregularyly has happened. I tried to look for some "verbosity"
> flags on firefox, but I didn't find anything suitable.
> 
> Does someone here know how to make firefox a bit more verbose?

One of the easiest ways is to start Firefox from inside a
regular X terminal (classic xterm program works fine) to
capture possible text output (if nothing is logged in the
file ~/.xsession-errors, or if there is "too much noise"
inside that file to determine what messages belong to the
Firefox startup process).

For a more verbose output, run "truss firefox" in xterm.
This should provide you a good impression of what's happening.


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
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