mozilla problems

[Bouncer]

On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:52 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bouncer wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:24 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bouncer wrote:
> > > > > > These processes also don't want to respond to
> > > > > > the kill command.
> > > > >
> > > > > kill -9 <PID>
> > > > >
> > > > > if that doesn't do something, your box is very very hosed.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Is there anywhere a users files could be placed to make it load
> > > > > > the dang pluginserver processes?
> > > > >
> > > > > pluginserver??  That must be some kind of SuSE-ism, cause it isn't
> > > > > a standard thing in Mozilla.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Mozilla is not useable under the one users desktop, as it slows
> > > > > > the system to a crawl.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd blame KDE, at least in part, for that.
> > > > >
> > > > > Kill all the wayward processes, and then try again.  Not using KDE
> > > > > might help too.
> > > >
> > > > I tried running it under windowmaker, same thing.  Those extra
> > > > hundred or so processes sure do slow down this antique of a PC!
> > >
> > > Kill the processes.  I don't understand what the problem is with that.
> >
> > I had tried the Windowmaker earlier and was just responding.
> > As for the kil -9 <PID>, it doesnt touch them.  This is wierd.
>
> As root it doesn't effect them?  Are they showing up as defunct or
> something?  If they're defunct, then you're stuck with tehm til you reboot
> the box, as they're now zombies.
>
> I still don't know what this pluginserver thing is that you have, since
> that's not part of Mozilla.  If i were you, i'd download an official
> Mozilla build from ftp.mozilla.org, and use that.

Rebooting didn't do it either.  They load with Mozilla.

What I just found was the following:

I copied all the entries in /opt/mozilla/plugins/ into a temp folder.  Then 
when I run Mozilla, it stops.  
I will add them back one at a time and see which is the culprit.  I will let 
you know.

Harry