I broke Mozilla

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

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.
>  
>
The easiest way to get rid of your running Mozilla is

% killall mozilla-bin
// or
% killall -9 mozilla-bin

In the worst case there is a mozilla-lock file hanging around in your 
.mozilla directory tree, you can see that, if you start mozilla again 
and it complains that there is already one running and 'ps aux | grep 
mozilla' gives nothing.

Eventual Java VM's still will be hanging in there, but if you like you 
can kill them the same way.

-- 
Vink

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