I broke Mozilla

[David Curtis]

Sounds like a stale lock file. Go to 
/home/***/.mozilla/default/******.slt/

and look for a file called lock. if it's there remove it and restart
mozilla.


On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 03:44, Mike Rambour wrote:
>   I had a mouse problem where my mouse clicked when I moved it (battery 
> went dead) and it opened a dozen or so Mozilla windows and different 
> dialogs. After replacing the battery I can not get Mozilla to run, I click 
> on it, it says "Starting Mozilla" and I get the hour glass mouse icon, 
> after a short while, it just goes back to the regular mouse icon and 
> Mozilla never starts.
> 
>   I saw there was a new version and downloaded it, installed it and 
> nothing, so I tried removing Mozilla so I could install fresh and got an error.
> 
> # rpm -evv mozilla-1.4.1-18
> ...
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          libxpcom.so is needed by (installed) openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-6
> 
> at which point the uninstall failed.  I found openoffice.org-libs on the CD 
> and installed it, I had to use --force since it said it was already there, 
> and uninstalled Mozilla and re-installed.  Same problem, I must be missing 
> something but not sure what or how to find out.  The above error may or may 
> not be my problem but I assume I have to fix it at least before I 
> continue.  I dont want to have to re-install Fedora from scratch again, I 
> already have twice and had the machine doing what I want/need and stable 
> until my mouse problem.
> 
> 	mike
>