I broke Mozilla
Richard McLarty
rmclarty at midsouth.rr.com
Tue Apr 13 19:57:53 UTC 2004
after removing the lock file and failing to run, I executed mozilla from
a terminal as you suggested and get a "segmentation fault" response.
How do I proceed? Thanks!
Matt H wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:44, 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 would suspect dead mozilla zombies playing havoc with each new
>instance of mozilla you try to run. Run "ps ax | grep mozilla" to check
>for mozilla processes and kill each if necessary. Rebooting might also
>help clear things up.
>
>
>
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
>This dependency is expected; OOo depends on mozilla and as such rpm will
>warn you when you try to remove it. libxpcom.so is a part of
>mozilla-1.4.1* package.
>
>You shouldn't need to un/re-install mozilla. I suggest you run "mozilla"
>from a terminal to see any error messages that might be output that
>aren't visible when you run from the GUI launcher.
>
>BTW, the timestamp on this message is Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:44. Is your
>system time set incorrectly by chance? This is not uncommon, it has
>happened to myself in the past! Are you using ntpd to sync your local
>clock?
>
>Regards,
>-Matt.
>
>
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