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

[Warren Sanders]

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Ben Luey wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>----------------------------------------------------------------
>>John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net

Did you compile Mozilla or use the binaries?  What I am trying to figure 
is if it was installed globally or for single users.

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Warren Sanders
http://MontanaLinux.org
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