Need help diagnosing why Mozilla won't start for my user.

[Patrick Bennett]

For some reason (obviously, something changed - I'm just not sure what) 
Mozilla will no longer launch for my primary account.
It just seems to go into limbo - nothing ever displays and the process 
just, well, hangs.  No error messages, nothing.
It launches fine for root (imagine that ;>), but not for my user, so 
understandably, I'm assuming it's a permissions problem.
The only thing is, I can't figure out what the problem is.  I've cleaned 
the Mozilla profile information for my user, as well as verified that my 
user
owned everything in its home directories.

Is there a log file somewhere I could look at?  I'm really at a bit of a 
loss./  /:(/

/Thanks,
Patrick Bennett

[Clint Harshaw]

Patrick Bennett wrote:
>  For some reason (obviously, something changed - I'm just not sure
> what) 
>  Mozilla will no longer launch for my primary account.
>  It just seems to go into limbo - nothing ever displays and the process 
>  just, well, hangs.  No error messages, nothing.
>  It launches fine for root (imagine that ;>), but not for my user, so 
>  understandably, I'm assuming it's a permissions problem.
>  The only thing is, I can't figure out what the problem is.  I've cleaned 
>  the Mozilla profile information for my user, as well as verified that my 
>  user
>  owned everything in its home directories.
>  
>  Is there a log file somewhere I could look at?  I'm really at a bit of a 
>  loss./  /:(/
>  
>  /Thanks,
>  Patrick Bennett 
try "strace mozilla" at your user prompt to see if there is something in 
the output to tell you what's going on.

Clint

[Patrick Bennett]

Clint Harshaw wrote:

>  try "strace mozilla" at your user prompt to see if there is
> something 
>  in the output to tell you what's going on. 
Bingo - it took a while to spot it, but there was a permission denied 
error getting logged in the strace output (not shown if run normally 
from a term window).  It wasn't able to access 
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/chrome/mozgest/content/mozgestOverlay.xul (which 
was set to 0600).  I'm guessing the update to the newer Mozilla (via 
up2date - run as root) didn't set the permissions correctly.
Either that, or the install of the optimoz mouse gestures plugin changed 
something as well.
Thanks for the great suggestion.  :)

Cheers...

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Patrick Bennett wrote:

>  For some reason (obviously, something changed - I'm just not sure
>
>  what) Mozilla will no longer launch for my primary account.
>  It just seems to go into limbo - nothing ever displays and the process 
>  just, well, hangs.  No error messages, nothing.
>  It launches fine for root (imagine that ;>), but not for my user, so 
>  understandably, I'm assuming it's a permissions problem.
>  The only thing is, I can't figure out what the problem is.  I've 
>  cleaned the Mozilla profile information for my user, as well as 
>  verified that my user
>  owned everything in its home directories.
>
>  Is there a log file somewhere I could look at?  I'm really at a bit of 
>  a loss./  /:(/
>
>  /Thanks,
>  Patrick Bennett
>
>  
Chances are you have a hung mozilla-bin process. Try:
ps -ef|grep mozilla
And if that shows a process then try:
killall  mozilla-bin
Then launch mozilla again.

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[Patrick Bennett]

Christopher K. Johnson wrote:

>  Chances are you have a hung mozilla-bin process. Try:
>  ps -ef|grep mozilla
>  And if that shows a process then try:
>  killall  mozilla-bin
>  Then launch mozilla again. 
Tried that - no cigar.    Thanks though.