Firefox w/ blank webpages? [SOLVED]

[chexmix]

My default uid is indeed 1000; gid the same.

Apologies for the delay in replying -- I'd pretty much given up.

Glenn

[chexmix]

OK, here is what's shown by xauth in my CentOS install:

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[chexmix@oortcloud ~]$ xauth
Using authority file /run/gdm/auth-for-chexmix-gO1LCF/database
xauth> list
oortcloud.example.org/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  876f1ef00e6893b2c8755d968a2e4620
#ffff#6f6f7274636c6f75642e6578616d706c652e6f7267#:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  876f1ef00e6893b2c8755d968a2e4620

To me, the line just after I invoke 'xauth' looks off, because I'm used to simply having a file .Xauthority in my /home/user directory ... but maybe this is the way systemd does things? I don't know much about systemd because most of my time has been spent on a Slackware system.

And certainly that second line shown by the 'list' command looks odd. Perhaps I should remove it? I have no idea. On my Slackware system, 'list' only shows a line like the first one.

Glenn

[chexmix]

Hi --

At last this is fixed. The fix didn't involve doing anything with/to Firefox explicitly, nor with those X authorization messages.

Instead ...

Another thing I'd noticed, but hadn't mentioned because I didn't think it was related, was that although I'd had the system sitting around for some time, there'd been NO updates at all. Whenever I invoked the 'Software Update' utility, no updates seemed to be available.

Finally I got curious enough to invoke yum from the command line. This was instructive (the cl typically is) ... yum spat an error at me, which I wish I'd caught and copied, about the 'Dropbox' repo being dead, or b0rked, or something to that effect. Eventually I figured out how to get yum to skip that repo and carry on.

There were hundreds of updates. And now my CentOS system, at least the browser end of things, is working fine. I'll mark this thread 'SOLVED' if I can remember how to do it.

Glenn