2.0 Install problem

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That's a strange one!  Have never heard of Firefox and T-Bird running automatically after an installation before.  Nor on a live DVD either.  Did I read that correctly?  You can't even run Firefox from the live DVD?

Maybe the ISO download was corrupted, or the burned DVD was bad.  Check the md5sum of the ISO file to make sure it matches the one shown on the download page.  Re-download if no match.  Try burning another DVD at slow speed and see if that works any better.



If that wasn't the problem and you've still got LL 2.0 installed, boot into it.  (If not, boot from live LL 2.0 DVD again.)  Try Firefox again.  If it says it's running in background again, open a terminal and enter this:

Code:

sudo killall firefox

Wait 5-10 seconds after running that, then try opening Firefox again.  If that worked, do the same thing for T-Bird if it is also still having problems.  Code for that would be:

Code:

sudo killall thunderbird

If you got lucky and those codes worked to allow you to start the programs normally, close them, wait 10 seconds, then try starting them again to see if the problem returned.  If "yes" (problem again), report back here to let us know.  If "no" (problem now gone), close programs as usual, shutdown/reboot computer and see if problem is gone for good or if it returned.

If problem returned, check Menu -> Settings -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart and look to see if they are listed as being autostarted on boot.  (Disable them if they are; then reboot again.)



If none of the above has helped, post back with details of your computer hardware and add any additional details describing the problem if there is anything new you'd like to add.

There is a nice terminal program called inxi that will provide a nice listing of your hardware details.  It is not included by default in LL, so you need to install it.  It can be used from either your installed system or the live DVD.  Below is outline of how to install it to either environment.  Also, the procedure is slightly different depending on the version of LL being used.

To install inxi to LL 2.0 enter these commands in a terminal (one line at a time):

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inxi
inxi -Fxz

To install inxi to LL 1.0.8 or 1.0.6 enter these commands in a terminal (one line at a time):

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:unit193/inxi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inxi
inxi -Fxz

Copy the output of that last command (listing your hardware) and paste it between code blocks here in the forum.  (See here for how to do that.)