mozilla stopped working

[Bret Hughes]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 18:38, M.Hockings wrote:
> Mike Klinke wrote:
> 
> >On Saturday 15 November 2003 15:42, M.Hockings wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I must admit that I don't know at what stage mozilla has stopped as I
> >>was doing a number of things with this one machine yesterday. 
> >>However now when I click on the mozilla startup icon at the bottom of
> >>the screen it appears to begin to start but then just ends without
> >>any messages displayed.  Is there a way to determine why mozilla is
> >>not starting, then I might have a hope about fixing it.
> >>
> >>Mike
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Open up a terminal window and type in "strace mozilla."
> >
> >This will start up mozilla and keep a running log in the terminal window 
> >of wha't going on.  When mozilla crashes you may be able to determine 
> >the cause by going back and looking at the running log.
> >
> >Regards,  Mike Klinke
> >
> >  
> >
> That was actually quite informative.  It looks like Mozilla is trying to 
> read on socket 4 and getting an error then it ends.  This is after the 
> same socket id (4) had been opened, used and closed several times 
> previous.  At this point though it has not been opened past it's last close.
> 
> I have tried deleting the .mozilla directory but that makes no difference.
> 
> I suspect that maybe a file is bad. How can I force a re-install of 
> Mozilla from the CD ?
> 
> Mike

Well you can check to see if it is a corrupted file.  

rpm -V $(rpm -qa |grep mozilla)

Bret