Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-12 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 11 Apr 2021 at 12:05, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > As suggested elsewhere: Testing is currently frozen, relatively few changes > happening. If this is a computer you rely on absolutely, you might want to > make sure that all the entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list point to bullseye > at

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 01:48:09PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 11/04/2021 à 13:33, Eric S Fraga a écrit : > > On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 13:18, David Wright wrote: > >> "my system (mostly Debian testing)" > > For clarity, it's testing but has a couple of packages from elsewhere > > (MS Team

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-11 Thread Erwan David
Le 11/04/2021 à 13:33, Eric S Fraga a écrit : > On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 13:18, David Wright wrote: >> "my system (mostly Debian testing)" > For clarity, it's testing but has a couple of packages from elsewhere > (MS Teams, Zoom) due to the fun times we are in... For some reason, my > compu

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-11 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 13:08, David Wright wrote: > My reaction upon reading this is that perhaps you should change your > priorities slightly. Yes, I understand where you are coming from. I do follow security advisories and upgrade specific packages. I do periodically upgrade all packages,

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-11 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 10:05, David Christensen wrote: > When I want to upgrade, re-install, or install packages, I start with > 'apt-get update'. Yes, did that. > I would have done 'apt-get upgrade ...' instead of 'apt install > ...'. I then reboot. Not sure if you are saying to upgrade a

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-11 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 13:18, David Wright wrote: > "my system (mostly Debian testing)" For clarity, it's testing but has a couple of packages from elsewhere (MS Teams, Zoom) due to the fun times we are in... For some reason, my computer seems to think I am running bullseye/sid (contents

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-11 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 14:21, Linux-Fan wrote: > Did you try to completely stop all of the previous version's processes? Yes, I had quit firefox and also added 'pkill firefox-esr' for good measure. I will try upgrading firefox-esr again and make triply sure everything is gone before starting

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:05:23AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I have not figured out the difference between apt(8) and apt-get(8). It > looks like the former uses the latter as a back-end (?). Not quite. They both use the same libraries to do the actual work, but one does not actually exe

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 10 Apr 2021 at 10:05:23 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 4/10/21 4:59 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > > ... I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from > > version 78.6 to version 78.9. > > I have not figured out the difference between apt(8) and apt-get(8). > It loo

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 10 Apr 2021 at 12:59:12 (+0100), Eric S Fraga wrote: > > I don't frequently upgrade if my system (mostly Debian testing) is > working but my bank told me that my browser was out of date and I needed > to upgrade. > > So, I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from > ve

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread David Christensen
On 4/10/21 4:59 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: ... I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from version 78.6 to version 78.9. I have not figured out the difference between apt(8) and apt-get(8). It looks like the former uses the latter as a back-end (?). I use apt-get(8).

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 02:21:13PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: [...] > Did you try to completely stop all of the previous version's processes? > > With new Firefox updates I frequently observe that the already > running old version "disintegrates" [...] Very polite way to put it :) Yes, that's my

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-10 Thread Linux-Fan
Eric S Fraga writes: Hello all, I don't frequently upgrade if my system (mostly Debian testing) is working but my bank told me that my browser was out of date and I needed to upgrade. So, I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from version 78.6 to version 78.9. Start up t