Corrupted Firefox Files

I've had problems with Firefox3 that won't save settings and always starts with Firefox homepage. I think I have traced the problem to some corrupted files in /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/im3gth45.default
Listing the files in the directory gives the following result...
[user@localhost im3gth45.default]$ ls -al | grep ?
ls: cannot access prefs.js: Input/output error
ls: cannot access metrics-config.xml: Input/output error
ls: cannot access sessionstore.js: Input/output error
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? metrics-config.xml
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? prefs.js
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? sessionstore.js

I'm fairly new to this linpus thing - the files can't be moved or renamed as I just get input/output errors.
Any help will be appreciated.

 

I had the same problem and since I had just installed a new version of NoScript I blamed it. I asked on the NoScript Forum and found it was not the fault of NoScript but a corrupt Profile.
I was given a link to this Thread @
http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopi ... t=161#p494

There is an explanation and another link to a procedure for changing your Profile but this was all too much for me so I just:

• Backed up my Bookmarks
Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks > Import and Backup
• Un-installed FireFox (I used Revo UnInstaller but this is probably not necessary)
• Restarted my AAO
• Re-installed FireFox
• Imported my Bookmarks back into FireFox (I lost my Tags)
Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks > Import and Backup
• Re-Installed my FireFox Addons and theme etc

That was over 2 months ago and all has been good since then

All the best, woz of oz

 

Thanks for the pointers. I followed the link about profiles and went into the profile manager (terminal: ff3 -profilemanager) and found the user profile that I think I set up when I installed firefox3 as well as the active default profile. I deleted the default profile, restarted firefox and found that everything works properly again Fairly painless and all done in a couple of minutes so thanks++ for your input.
I am now left with a few seriously broken files that linpus refuses to remove (input/output error when I run rm on them). I can't see how to force fsck to run at bootup and sort out this mess. Any hints?

 

Sorry for the late reply. I have only used Windows so I know nothing

Probably best to search and if necessary ask in the Linux section.
Good luck

All the best, woz of oz

 

To force fsck

Wait for the system to be idle (no disk light activity)

HOLD the power switch down for 4-5 seconds until the power goes off.

Press power switch, turn on.

Wait -- the fsck should trigger and you should be at a "blue screen". For SSD, it will not be too long, but for 120/160GB hard disk version it will take 10 to 20 minutes.