XFCE default browser I/O error

[Tony Peardon]

I switched to using the XFCE desktop environment because I heard it was
faster, and now when I click on a web browser icon, or when another
application tries to open a page in the default web browser, I get

ERROR:

Failed to execute default Web Browser.

Input/output error.

How do I fix this?

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Tony Peardon may or may not have written...

-ENOTENOUGHINFO

Anyway, it's *probably* disk-related. If you've not shut down that computer
since that was reported, then the kernel log may contain some relevant
information:

$ dmesg

Otherwise you (as root) will have to look in /var/log/kern.log or
/var/log/syslog or one of the backup files (kern.log.1, kern.log.2.gz etc.;
similarly for syslog; use zless since that'll cope with gzipped files as well
as uncompressed files without any extra configuration).

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[Mumia W.]

Open up an X terminal and try to start www-browser and see what happens.

[xubunt6]

menu button:
applications, settings, preferred applications:
firefox e.g.

I do not know if it works, but you can try
otherwise: install firefox?

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[sk8r-365]

Horton heard a Who named xubunt6 saying:

>
> menu button:
> applications, settings, preferred applications:
> firefox e.g.
>
> I do not know if it works, but you can try
> otherwise: install firefox?

Are you using FireFox or Iceweasel? FF is not the default browser now.
You should bet this if the link is correct (Debian Etch):

ls /usr/bin/firefox -l

(next line is wrapped)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2007-09-16 18:08 /usr/bin/firefox
-> ../lib/iceweasel/iceweasel

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[Tony Peardon]

Ok.. I got:

bash: www-browser: command not found. Any Ideas?

[Tony Peardon]

sk8r-365 wrote:
> Horton heard a Who named xubunt6 saying:
>> menu button:
>> applications, settings, preferred applications:
>> firefox e.g.
>>
>> I do not know if it works, but you can try
>> otherwise: install firefox?
>
> Are you using FireFox or Iceweasel? FF is not the default browser now.
> You should bet this if the link is correct (Debian Etch):
>
> ls /usr/bin/firefox -l
>
> (next line is wrapped)
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2007-09-16 18:08 /usr/bin/firefox
> -> ../lib/iceweasel/iceweasel
>

I've got many different browsers installed, including iceweasel, but I
mainly use iceape. All the browsers that I have do work, it's just that
I don't seem to have a default browser. I've tried selecting several
different browsers in preferred applications, but it seems to make no
difference.

When I installed XFCE, I also uninstalled a couple of browsers and
installed a couple of others at the same time. Could I have somehow
made my computer choke? Do you think it might help if I reinstall XFCE?

[Björn Steinbrink]

Should probably have been x-www-browser

Björn