Mozilla mystery

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Net Llama! wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 December 2002 09:39 am, someone claiming to be Net Llama!
> > wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Collins wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > > It means does not start, mozilla screen never appears, no error
> > > > messages in the console, nothing in XFree.. erors, etc., but it does
> > > > build all the usual ~/.mozilla, ~/.netscape... directories.  The only
> > > > hint is 'mozilla &' in a terminal window eventually returns 'exit11'.
> > > >
> > > > BTW, no user has a .bashrc, etc.  Only the standare /etc stuff are
> > > > used in starting bash.
> > > >
> > > > No similar problems found on moz bugzilla.
> > >
> > > I'd suggest running it through strace.  BTW, which version of mozilla is
> > > this?
> >
> > Are there any failed mozilla process running when you do a 'ps -ax'?
> 
> oooh, good point, although mozilla traditionally gives some kind of
> warning when there is a pre-existing instance running.
> 
> > FWIW, all my users have a .netscape6 directory and a .mozilla directory, and
> > Netscape 6 has *never* been installed. I'd copy over the .netscape6 dir to
> > /home/new, change perms appropriately and see what happens. Better yet, 'rm
> > -rf' the .mozilla directory and then try starting Moz again.
> 
> Yea, i've got a .netscape6 dir too, however its paltry contents haven't
> been touched in over 8 months.

I've noticed something like this "not starting" when there are leftover
Java processes (usually a dozen or so).  I'm not sure that the symptoms 
were identical, however.  It may be worth looking in the results of
'ps -axlww' to see if there's something clogging the works.

++ kevin


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