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Date:      Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:55:46 +0200
From:      "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Firefox: firefox dies quietly. How to debug?
Message-ID:  <20160912175546.140cfb81.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <20160912165450.84b4e347.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <20160912162645.179d0b09@freyja.zeit4.iv.bundesimmobilien.de> <20160912165450.84b4e347.freebsd@edvax.de>

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Am Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:54:50 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> schrieb:

> 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 an=
d also
> > open xterm, xpdf as clients. But I can not start firefox or libreoffice=
 - they
> > die quietly.=20
> >=20
> > 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 "verbo=
sity"
> > flags on firefox, but I didn't find anything suitable.
> >=20
> > Does someone here know how to make firefox a bit more verbose? =20
>=20
> 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).

Firefox is started manually while I develop and configure, so I already hav=
e a xterm open
and start firefox from within. The curious thing is, that there is no ~/.xs=
ession-errors
nor is there any other type of output (even no console, no /var/log/message=
s).=20

>=20
> For a more verbose output, run "truss firefox" in xterm.
> This should provide you a good impression of what's happening.
>=20
>=20

I'll try this next time, thanks for the tipp.=20

Greetings,
Oliver

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