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
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
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...
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.