Need help diagnosing why Mozilla won't start for my user.
Christopher K. Johnson
ckjohnson at gwi.net
Mon Feb 2 16:25:04 UTC 2004
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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