mozilla stopped working

[M.Hockings]

Matt Temple wrote:

> 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
>>
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>
> I had something similar happen because of an incorrect link
> in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory.   Incorrect link was
> to the java/sdk.   Similar phenomenon -- Mozilla would appear to
> start then disappear.   The correct links are in some of the Mozilla
> release notes.
>
>                         mht
>
I looked in that directory and all that is there is mozplugger.so.  
Renaming it or rmoving it made no difference.

If I go to a command line and type "mozilla" (sans quotes) I get the 
command prompt back right away with no error messages.  "which mozilla" 
reports "/usr/bin/mozilla"  and if I try "mozilla -mail" I get 
"Segmentation fault". 

Could it be that normal running is hitting this segmentation fault, 
absorbing the error and ending.  How can I re-install mozilla?  I have 
tried using the package manager gui to uninstall it so that I could 
re-install it but it tells me that I need a bunch of dependencies or 
something to uninstall (don't quite understand that).

The machine is at the current FC1 level by using up2date.

Mike