On Saturday 05 April 2003 09:32 pm, Steven Cole wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I cannot get Mozilla to start up, either from the menu, from the
> taskbar, which does "soundwrapper /usr/bin/mozilla %u", or from
> a shell, either "/usr/bin/mozilla" or the above.
>
> When launched from the menu or taskbar, the hourglass tumbles for
> about 30 seconds and then disappears with no mozilla started.
>
> When the /usr/bin/mozilla script is run, no processes are started
> either.
>
> The .mozilla directory is empty.
>
> Other large apps such as OpenOffice or Koffice start OK.
> Evolution too. Galeon segfaults but that's another problem.
>
> The box has 384 MB memory and free showed about a 1/3 of that
> available when I first started trying to start Mozilla.  Swap is
> on, but not yet used.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help as to how to troubleshoot.
>
> Steven

Just for grins and giggles Steven;

Open a terminal, become su and type 

urpmi mozilla <enter>
or
urpmi galeon <enter>

If (as I suspect) Galeon or Mozilla either aren't installed, or are installed 
in an unexpected directory location, something other than "Everything already 
installed" should happen. If not there's definitely weirdness happening there 
and it needs to be found. Maybe by urpme mozilla and reinstalling it. 
Installs do go "wonky" on occasion after all, at times for no readily 
explainable reason.

My Galeon and Mozilla are both in /usr/lib; but since this box is a (mostly) 
'cooked' install, (installed fresh as beta1 9.1 and upgraded since to 
Bamboo/current cooker) I have a mozilla and a mozilla1.3 directory. The 
mozilla directory only contains a plugins sub directory though.

Galeon won't work at all without Mozilla BTW. The mozilla core is the 
foundation used to run the Galeon UI overlay.

Please lose the "Reply To:" for posts to mailing lists? Thanks.

Regards;
-- 
Charlie
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