01-30-2021, 10:08 PM
Same happened to me. I had a laptop running 3.8 and Firefox wouldn't start up - no error messages.
It worked normally the day before and is routinely updated every morning. If I recall correctly there was a kernel upgrade in yesterday's list and that would be my suspect. You could try booting with the previous kernel. Not sure how easy this is would be under LL 3.8 - maybe select the advanced options on the GRUB screen and if it works I think you can opt out of future kernel changes.
Given that 3.8 is end of support in April 2021 after trying a few things to revive firefox under 3.8 I decided to invest my time in upgrading my machine to 5.2 but your machine spec might be on the edge for running 5. LL 4.8 is good until April 2023.
Having been bitten I need to start creating a restore point daily before updating.
It worked normally the day before and is routinely updated every morning. If I recall correctly there was a kernel upgrade in yesterday's list and that would be my suspect. You could try booting with the previous kernel. Not sure how easy this is would be under LL 3.8 - maybe select the advanced options on the GRUB screen and if it works I think you can opt out of future kernel changes.
Given that 3.8 is end of support in April 2021 after trying a few things to revive firefox under 3.8 I decided to invest my time in upgrading my machine to 5.2 but your machine spec might be on the edge for running 5. LL 4.8 is good until April 2023.
Having been bitten I need to start creating a restore point daily before updating.
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