Dead and silent Mozilla

[Clint Harshaw]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> Hi, all!
> 
> My Mozilla (1.7.2 fully-patched) seems to have died quietly. It refuses
> to start, meaning I get a "Starting Web Browser" dialog from htmlview
> but no browser. Typing mozilla at the command-line also gets me nothing,
> and no errors are logged to /var/log/messages.
> 
> Googling yields nothing since I likely can't construct a useful set of
> search terms in this case, and uninstalling/reinstalling the mozilla
> packages with rpm makes no difference.
> 
> Help? Any comments or suggestions welcome.

try starting from the command line using strace:

$ strace mozilla

hopefully there will be some data there that can be of some help 
diagnosing things.

Clint