Mozilla mystery

[Net Llama!]

What does "will not start" mean??

On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Collins wrote:
> I'm setting up other family members but getting varying results with
> mozilla:
>
> 1. Users collins,cecilia, coleen, and new (added in this order) all
> have the same setup, i.e. group users extra group wheel (needed for
> use of su on gentoo), home directory on /home/username, shell
> /bin/bash
>
> 2. All home directories have the same ownership (username.users) and
> correct permissions, and ownership and permissions look normal for all
> files on the respective users.
>
> 3. mozilla runs fine on collins and cecilia.
>
> 4. mozilla will not start on coleen and new.  No error messages of any
> sort.  The ~/.mozilla directory on each user looks similar, except
> that coleen and new haven't gotten far enough along to have all files
> present.
>
> 5. $PATH is the same for all users.
>
> 6. Perhaps a related glitch.  On coleen and new I get font error
> messages when starting xfce, but other X programs start and run ok for
> these users.  No font error messages when starting xfce on collins and
> cecilia.  The xfce font specifications for all users are identical.
>
> 7. Successful users also have a ~/.netscape and ~/.netscape6 directory
>
> 8. /etc/passwd looks similar for each user.  /etc/group has an entry
> for group wheel for each of these users.
>
> What am I missing?
>
>

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