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

Christopher K. Johnson ckjohnson at gwi.net
Mon Feb 2 16:25:04 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
>
>
Chances are you have a hung mozilla-bin process. Try:
ps -ef|grep mozilla
And if that shows a process then try:
killall  mozilla-bin
Then launch mozilla again.

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