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

[D. Stimits]

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.
>
> ...

Sounds like that user has different environment or permissions with 
regard to the jre. You might try configuring (globally if needed) to not 
use jre or java, and see if things change.

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com