Need help diagnosing why Mozilla won't start for my user.

Clint Harshaw clint at penguinsolutions.org
Mon Feb 2 16:19:29 UTC 2004


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





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