[lug] Weirdness: openoffice / mozilla won't start

[Ben Luey]

So, the mozilla problem with starting in profile manager is not caused by
another instance of anything running. I restarted X, made sure that
neither mozilla nor, netscape nor galeon had any processes running, I
deleted my .mozilla and .netscape and .galeon directories, and I get the
same problem. If I su as another user, (with a blank home directory) I
don't have the problem. I can't see what is different: with no .mozilla
directory how can mozilla treat my account different from another users?

I ran strace of mozilla as both users and compared the two files. They
start off looking the same but then I get:

< rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x807b070, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4004fb88},
{0x807b070, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4004fb88}, 8) = 0
< close(4)  = 0
< read(3,0xbffff390, 128)  = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)

The last line is not there when I ran as the troubled user. The line comes
about where it loads my jre-1.41 java libraries, but that is configured (I
think) globally.

Then the stuff starts to diverge. The working username gets

< wait4(-1, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 1], WNOHANG, NULL) = 4277
< wait4(-1, 0xbffff18c, WNOHANG, NULL)  = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
< sigreturn()  = ? (mask now [RTMIN]) 335a333

While the non-working username gets

> wait4(-1, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0, NULL) = 4443
336a335,337

I'm finding galeon much less stable on this username where mozilla doesn't
work, and I think there problems might be related (www.doonsbury.com crash
galeon all the time, but seems to work fine for other users).

Any ideas -- is there some corrupt config stored in my home directory,
that isn't in .mozilla, .netscape .netscape6 or .galeon.

Thanks,


Ben




> > Ben Luey wrote:
> > >
> > > Problem 2) When I run mozilla, I get a profile mananger dialog that lets
> > > me add / delete / modify the profiles. I have my normal profile setup but
> > > when I click on it and say run, nothing happens. Why mozilla even brings
> > > up the profile manager instead of a web-browser is beyond me.
> > >
> > > Any ideas? Are these problems related?
> >
> > Prob. 2 is probably due to an existing stray mozilla process.  Was a
> > Mozilla session running prior to this behavior?
>
> My guess is that if more than one profile has been created, it
> unconditionally displays the dialog of choices - at least that is the way
> it's behaving on my system.  However in the case that there is another
> instance running under the same login id, it also dsiplays the dialog,
> even if only one profile exists, and doesn't allow using the same profile
> for two instances.
>
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